Im building my first PC for gaming, do my parts look okay?

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Power Supply- CORSAIR CX series CX500 500W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

G Card-EVGA 02G-P4-3753-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 750 Ti Superclocked 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card

M Board-MSI MSI Gaming Z97 GAMING 5 LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0

Processor- Intel Core i5-4690K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 88W

RAM- CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

Hdrive-WD Black 1TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch

Case- Phantom 410
 
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IisGamer

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Hello ghettobagel,

Your parts look fine, but may I suggest, depending if you have the money and your processor is an AM3+ socket etc.. a motherboard from Asus? Asus is one of the best manufacturers for computers and motherboards out there. Here is a motherboard I would recommend for gaming: https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VII_FORMULAWATCH_DOGS/specifications/. If you plan on using Windows 10 or other hardware that is not compatible with this motherboard, I will be glad to redo your parts list for you for a good gaming machine. Cheers,

IisGamer
 
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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/JQWXXL
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/JQWXXL/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ B&H)
Motherboard: Asus H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Team Elite Plus 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.75 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card ($144.99 @ Micro Center)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 88R MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 700W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Total: $583.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-01 11:32 EDT-0400
drop down to a locked mb and cpu use the money for a better gaming gpu.
 
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Good build but if you want good performance, go for a r9 380 or better. The 750 ti will pull back the CPU due to its limitations. You would want to invest in AMD Gpus to take advantage of dx 12 in the future since dx 12 is supported by AMD hardware. Nvidia 900 series cards will be fine for dx 11 gaming but don't support dx 12 fully because of the different architecture. Software drivers won't help so I would highly recommend team red. Might want to replace the psu with a seasonic 500w or better. That psu you chose is not good quality.
 
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Don't mean to criticize but GeForce GTX brand is Nvidia. Asus does not manufacture video cards. Just so they do not get confused.
 
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Ah yes I agree. I heard it was supposed to be really good. Is there a price for it yet?
 
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Ghettobagel-

I have read through all the responses thoroughly and thank you to all of you! To the suggestion of a better Mother board im unfortunately not wanting to spend to much on my first build so im going to stick with a more mid class motherboard despite the Asus motherboard looking fantastic. I am replacing my power supply as suggested for a CORSAIR CX series CX600M 600W ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE
I am also switching my Graphics card but not to much due to limited pocket change, now it is a, as suggested directX 12 ready EVGA GeForce GTX 960 02G-P4-2966-KR 2GB SSC GAMING w/ACX 2.0+, Whisper Silent Cooling Graphics Card. Im quite sure this is as good as my build is going to come for the price im looking towards and im very happy with what ive found. If im missing anything please let me know or tell me how my build should turn out for me.

PS- Im coming off a 2.2 ghz laptop with IG and barely any RAM so im happy with anything above peasant class
 
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