500gb of games is hardly a shit load; Just get a Hybrid drive for your games, it's much cheaper with faster loading times than a traditional HDD - after it starts to cache your frequently accessed games you probably won't notice a difference.

the r9 390 and the 970 are competing in the same price range. But the r9 390 performs slightly better and retails about 20$ cheaper. Thats why i choose the 390 for my standart gaming pc build. There is nothing wrong with the 970. Both are good grafics card able to run all games at 1080p.
But with Skylake i was reffering to the CPU. The i5 4460 is a model of the older hasswell architcure. There is a newer (skylake) architecure, which requires also a different socket (1151 socket). Comes with some new features and ddr4 support. Since there is almost no price difference i would recommend the i5 6xxx.

For a 4460 you don't need a Z97 motherboard unless you plan to upgrade the CPU at another time. Also for price/performance an R9 390 is better. Although, I'm still questioning AMD's Crimson drivers as they don't seem to have the performance of older drivers.

Ahh I didn't realize they had come out with a new architecture. I was stuck in the Haswell days. I will say that I researched the AMD series GPU's and alot of people are saying the drivers suck and that it's noisy. Is this true?

No. AMD drivers aren't that bad. I never had any issues with them except a few odd moments. I want the R9 Fury Nano myself.

Ssd is worth it, way faster
Get a 500gb

or get the 250gb evo and get a better mobo/cpu/psu..

and get another 250gb evo later and raid it

i have a shit ton of games. 500gb is nothing. you will regret that so much. get a 250gb ssd and 1tb hdd. or a hybrid