Can you help select parts for a young noob's first venture into the master race?

Ech0location · Apr 25, 2014

As an introduction: Hello everyone! I'm just a 17-year old noob who's mom decided to help him pay for a PC. I plan to use this PC for 4- to 8-hour gaming sessions so cooling and longevity of the parts is important to me.

I've decided on a budget of $1150, but please try to help me keep it as low as possible.

The parts I've selected so far...

Windforce GTX 770- I really like this card from what I've read.

Cooler Master GeminII M4- This looks like a cool little fan, and some people recommended it to me.

Carbide Series 400R- I'm fairly sure this case will fill any and all of my needs.

SeaSonic SS-750KM3- I've been told that the one part I should never skimp on is a PSU, so I picked a more powerful gold certified one.

NHDataHound · Apr 25, 2014

Ech0location :

The big question is: Do you already have a monitor you like? If you do, that's great, if not it might dent your budget a bit.

XtremeAero426 · Apr 25, 2014

Ech0location :

I took the parts you wanted and made a build out of it: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3y6Mx

The CPU is a AMD FX-6200 3.8GHz 6-Core Processor. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard. It's full Sata 6GB/s and has USB-3.0. The only downside is that it's max RAM speed is 2000 but unless you plan to go over that you should be fine. The RAM is G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory. It runs at 1866 speed and is two 4GB sticks. You have two hard drives. One is a 240GB SSD for all your games and your OS. There's also a 1TB HDD for everything else. The optical drive is a Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer. It has the parts you asked for and runs Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

Ech0location · Apr 25, 2014

NHDataHound :

Ech0location :

The big question is: Do you already have a monitor you like? If you do, that's great, if not it might dent your budget a bit.

I have usable peripherals for the time being.

Ech0location · Apr 25, 2014

XtremeAero426 :

Ech0location :

I took the parts you wanted and made a build out of it: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3y6Mx

The CPU is a AMD FX-6200 3.8GHz 6-Core Processor. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard. It's full Sata 6GB/s and has USB-3.0. The only downside is that it's max RAM speed is 2000 but unless you plan to go over that you should be fine. The RAM is G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory. It runs at 1866 speed and is two 4GB sticks. You have two hard drives. One is a 240GB SSD for all your games and your OS. There's also a 1TB HDD for everything else. The optical drive is a Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer. It has the parts you asked for and runs Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

Thanks, this looks extremely solid.

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