Please rate my system and remodel if necessary.

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Hi! Im fixing to buy a pc online It's my first gaming PC ever and although I chose all the parts myself after doing a bit of research I'm having it assembled by the online store just to play safe but I don't know if the parts even make sense in the constellation that I chose them, and if they even fit, as I'm totally new to this.

Oh yeah, I was redirected to this forum about a hundred times during the course of my research and it helped me a great deal, so I figured why not sign up and just go ahead and ask myself.

Video card: 2048MB Palit GeForce GTX 750 Ti Stormx OC Dual Active PCIe 3.0 x16
Do I need a card with two coolers attached? Does it have to be overclocked? I heard the improvements are marginal and barely visible? (Gonna play lots and lots of games.)
Mainboard: MSI B85M-E45 Intel B85 so.1150 Dual Channel DDR3 mATX Retail
PCU: Intel Core i5 4590 4x 3.30GHz So.1150 BOX

(Do PCUs come with a fan or do I need to buy one? Also, the i5 4570 costs exactly the same and has tons of positive reviews whereas the 4590 has practically none. I understand it came out pretty recently, so that might have something to do with it. It performed exactly the same to only slightly better. Really don't know which one to go with here.)
Harddrive: 1000GB Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003 64MB 3.5" (8.9cm) SATA 6Gb/s
PSU: I used an online Power Supply Calculator and it added up to only 293W so technically 400W should be more than enough? I'm looking to buy a high-end video card as soon as GTA 5 is released for PC, you think a 400W PSU will accomodate that as well? Or should I opt for 500W? Is a PSU a good place to cheap out and go and buy a $20 one or will it mess with my system?
RAM: 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3-1600 DIMM CL9 Dual Kit (Really no idea which RAM to get, I just know I want 8GB of DDR3.)
Case: mid-size, ATX, 2xUSB 2.0, 2xUSB 3.0

Suggestions of any kind will be greatly appreiated. Although the mainboard and RAM is probably what I'm most lost on. And the CPU. And... yeah, I have no clue what I'm doing.

As for the GTX750Ti, is there a big difference between the various brands? The EVGA did really good on some reviews I read/watched. A one-cooler, no-OC version (EVGA) costs the same as a Palit two-cooler, OC one. Good deal? Which way? Does the brand even matter? There are so many of them. Gigabyte, MSI, Zotac, Asus, Gainward... it's like standing in the cereal isle.
I'm pretty dead-set on a GTX750Ti but there is a GTX660 by Palit (one-cooler, no OC) that is only about $20 more than a Palit GTX750Ti Dual OC. Would it be worth the extra 20? (I'm on a bit of a budget.) Is it even that much better?
 
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if you try to force some plugs in or insert them incorrectly with force, then you can damage your parts irreversibly. However, every individual part should be under warranty.

When you've decided on a build, you should just post it on this forum for a compatibility check. Most first-time builders do trial and error, honestly.

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PSU is literally the worst part of your system to cheap out on, because if it fails (spectacularly, like some of the cheapest ones), then you can destroy all of your other components.

What's your budget? Did you already choose all of your parts?
Building a system is not as difficult as you may think, all you have to do is plug in everything to the correct sockets, and there's tons of guides out there for that.
 

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Thanks a lot for taking the time to read and reply to my post!

My budget is roughly $1000 including (!) a 24" monitor and a keyboard none of which I currently have. (I've been using notebooks all my life.) Well, I chose the parts that I listed above. They're currently in my shopping cart. Still open for suggestions/improvements.

I'm currently at about $1080 with a $70 500W PSU that got pretty decent reviews. I was only looking where to cut, hypothetically. So apparently this is not the place. Thanks for the heads-up!

I wouldn't mind saving the $100 they charge for assembly at all. I've seen my brother do it dozens of times, it doesn't really scare me. On the contrary, I don't think it's hard at all, but I'm afraid I might be overestimating myself now, and end up with no warranty and a PC that is not working later.
If I don't get every cable right the first time, could I potentially damage something irreversibly? Or can I just go by trial and error until I get it to work?
 

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if you try to force some plugs in or insert them incorrectly with force, then you can damage your parts irreversibly. However, every individual part should be under warranty.

When you've decided on a build, you should just post it on this forum for a compatibility check. Most first-time builders do trial and error, honestly.
 
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