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I am ordering the parts for my first gaming pc in roughly a week. I want to play games at 1080p and I am not going to be using a monitor for around a month. please try to find a cheaper ssd with the same size and help me find a good motherboard with good features that can have up to 32gb of ram. if you see a place to cut down the cost, please recommend something else. thank you for your help. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/FhTBCJ
 
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cdrkf

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I think the ssd you have looks like a sensible choice.

One are you could save some money, you could switch that GTX 970 for a last gen R9 290 and save over $100 without really loosing any performance (AMD still use that gpu in the updated 390 so it's fully supported driver wise).

To be honest for 1080p both cards are overkill. I game at 1080p high - ultra setting happily on an R9 280. You could probably drop to a GTX 960 or R9 380 and still game at 1080p fine, although as the are slightly older the 290 cards are amazing value :p

Link to a 290: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100362sr
 
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madmatt30

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4690k is not worth the extra - the 4460 is good enough to power a 970 easily mate.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($172.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty H97 Performance ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($107.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($44.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($51.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($319.99 @ B&H)
Case: Deepcool KENDOMEN Black ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) ($84.88 @ OutletPC)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $986.58
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-18 13:56 EST-0500
 
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fport

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It's much quicker to simply cut and paste from [bb] in partpicker:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($226.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI H97 GAMING 3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($108.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($44.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($51.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($319.99 @ B&H)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($63.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) ($84.88 @ OutletPC)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1055.68
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-18 13:46 EST-0500

I'm looking at something that is on the floorboards already. Even shifting things around a bit:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1241 V3 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($263.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($71.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($44.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($233.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master HAF 912 ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($93.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) ($84.88 @ OutletPC)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $967.58
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-18 14:12 EST-0500

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1241 V3 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($263.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($71.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($44.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.09 @ Amazon)
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card ($293.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master HAF 912 ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($93.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) ($84.88 @ OutletPC)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1026.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-18 14:04 EST-0500

More solid PS, i7 - multithreading from the xeon and so on.
 
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