Please Help Building Gaming PC

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Hey everyone who is willing to help me out! PLEASE read everything that I wrote, I know it is a lot, but it is important and will help both you and me to find what I am looking for, thank you for all your patience and help you can provide.

I am new to this website and to building computers, so anyone who is willing to help me out, please bear with me, I might be a bit slower than most people to learn, but I will do my best to listen to what you say, thank you to anyone who is reading and helping me out, it really means a lot! I would like to build a gaming PC because most people I asked, they said building one is usually cheaper and better. So I researched a bit about it and decided to go for it! I found a few builds that I think might be good for what I am looking for, but I am not too sure if they are good enough, so please tell me if they are perfect for what I need, not good enough and you know a better build, or if the build I mentioned is good, but you have a few changes to make it perfect for what I am looking for. Anyways, I would like to build a gaming PC, mainly for Minecraft, I would like to play vanilla (for people who do not know what this is, it means the original game, without any changes or mods), modded survival (this is the opposite of vanilla, you download extra content called mods to make the game more fun and interesting, it usually requires a decent PC in order to load a bunch of mods) and on large multiplayer servers, all on high settings without lag (hopefully 100+ FPS playing vanilla, 60+ FPS playing modded, and 60+ FPS on servers) and be able to load a new world fast. I might play a few other games, like Terraria or other smaller Steam games, but I will not be playing the bigger, more detailed games like Battlefield 4 or Crysis 3 since I mainly play those kind of games on Xbox 360. I would also like to be able to run Internet Explorer and Google Chrome fast and be able to watch videos on YouTube, play games like Happy Wheels, and download items fast. Finally, I would like the price range to be around $600, I could go a bit higher, but not to $1000 or over. I think that about covers it, thank you to everyone who read my whole post, like I said at the top, I know it is a lot, but it with help out you and me both. Here are a few questions that a lot of people usually ask me when I am looking into building a PC:

Do you need a monitor, keyboard, mouse, headset, ect?

I do need a monitor, preferably an HD, good all-around quality monitor. I do not need anything else.

What OS (Operating System) do you want?

I would really like Win7 64 bit, but if it is easier, then Win8 64 bit is ok.

Do you plan to record?

No


Here are the links to the PC builds I was talking about earlier:

http://austinnotduncan.com/builds/photon/

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/7JyYf7

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/mYNdMp this one might need to switch the case to a Source 210 (non-elite) because of the Compatibility issues.

Remember, like I said at the top, please tell me if they are perfect for what I need, not good enough and you know a better build, or if the build I mentioned is good, but you have a few changes to make it perfect for what I am looking for.

Thanks again to everyone who read my whole post (I read it a few times to check spelling, and it only took about 2 minutes, and I am a slow reader) and helps me out, it really means a lot!
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($98.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.78 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($72.00 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card ($169.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($38.98 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($29.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Amazon)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($88.98 @ OutletPC)
Monitor: Asus VS197D-P 18.5" Monitor ($88.99 @ Mac Mall)
Total: $732.68
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-29 21:17 EDT-0400
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($72.00 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($349.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($38.98 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Antec EarthWatts Green 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($76.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Amazon)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $982.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-30 20:33 EDT-0400
 
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Hey I found another CPU that might be better than this one: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor, please tell me which is better for what I am looking for; Intel Pentium g3258 Haswell Dual-Core 3.2GHz
 

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That one is a bit too much that I would like to spend, since I mainly play the bigger games like Battlefield 4 on Xbox, I do not play on a computer, this will mainly be for Minecraft and other things I mentioned in my post.
 

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So, the Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor is better? I used the site you gave me, and I compared the two, and I think the Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor is better than the Intel Pentium g3258 Haswell Dual-Core 3.2GHz
 

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Also, would two, 8GB RAM cards be better than two, 4GB RAM cards for what I am looking for, I know it is better obviously, but what I mean is, is it needed for what I am looking for, or is two, 4GB fine?
 


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