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CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-4690 3.50 GHz 6MB LGA1150
HDD: 240GB Corsair Force GS Series SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD - 555MB/s Read & 525MB/s Write [+157] (Single Drive)
MEMORY: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR3/1866MHz Dual Channel Memory [+100] (G.SKILL Ripjaws X)
MOTHERBOARD: ASRock Z97 Pro4 ATX w/ Intel GbLAN, 2 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 2 PCI, 1 x M.2, 6x SATA 6Gb/s (All Venom OC Certified)
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: EVGA Superclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 4GB GDDR5 w/ ACX Cooling PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card [+256] (Single Card)

Also have a 2TB 2nd HD and wireless card.
 
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Motherboard should work fine, good for the price.

Have you considered the 280x? It's around the same price as the 760 you picked, but outperforms it. Something to look into and think about.

Also, what PSU are you going with? Make sure not to skimp out too much on the PSU as it's one of the most important aspects of the computer.
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If you're buying a z97 board you might as well get a "k" CPU if you want to overclock.

What games and what resolution though? Should work well enough for most games at 1080p but you will have to turn down settings on some games depending on what you're playing.
 
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I don't think I will over clock, the i5 is just until broadwells come out I'm guessing in like 3-6 months and I will invest in that. I was worried that the motherboard might not be good I don't know much about them.

I want to play games like Rome 2, Space Engineers, ARMA 3/DayZ mod/stand alone, the the Sims 4, etc.
 
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Motherboard should work fine, good for the price.

Have you considered the 280x? It's around the same price as the 760 you picked, but outperforms it. Something to look into and think about.

Also, what PSU are you going with? Make sure not to skimp out too much on the PSU as it's one of the most important aspects of the computer.
 
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Corsair CX500 500W 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC. And I'm using a builder site I simply don't have the hours in the day to learn and they don't offer another MB for the same price except:

GIGABYTE Z97-D3H ATX w/ Realtek GbLAN, 2 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 3 PCI, 6x SATA 6Gb/s (Pro OC Certified) [+0]
 
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Oh you mean the graphics card. Everything I've read says ATI is still behind nvda. I used to have a Radeon when I was in. HS about 10 years ago but since then I haven't read much positive about them.
 
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I would generally suggest a slightly higher wattage PSU. Although it would likely work, depending on what GPU you get it could be pushing it.

As for brands, for Nvidia I suggest EVGA, Asus, or Gigabyte cards, and for AMD Radeon I suggest Sapphire. As for 760 vs 280x, that choice is up to you to make.
 
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