Help - Newbie Budget Build!

ZennPC

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Hey everyone, I'm a young aspiring computer enthusiast with a passion for building PC's. I just wanted to inform everyone that I am very new to the PC building community and I'm very excited to get into building my first computer.

The reason I'm posting this is to get other computer enthusiasts to review my build that I'm planning to buy and start building for myself. I'd like some criticism and suggestions as to how I could improve my build and my knowledge for computer building so please do comment.

My build is a gaming budget build of approx $2000 AUD. I live in Australia so I'm afraid the best I could save for my first build is $2000 and availability of computer components is not exactly... vast. Also when I say $2000 AUD, I mean more like & $1900 as I'd like to save at least $100 for shipping charges as unfortunately I'm not able to purchase and locally pickup components here in Sydney.

I, for some reason, love MSI and the whole White and Black theme of this build so I'd like to stay along that path of computer components branding and coloring, but if required I don't mind being flexible. Here's the PC part picker link to my build: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/ZentryG/saved/#view=jVYJxr

Thankyou so much for your time and effort,
I really appreciate the help,
Zen.

P. S. I'd really like to invest atleast $100 - $210 AUD (within budget) for a gaming monitor hence why my build is at approx. $1678 AUD as it stands right now. I'm open to any suggestion and recommendation as long as it fits within my allocated budget and overall build budget of $2000.
 

ZennPC

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Ofcourse, to be precise my build is the Custom Budget Build #3.

CPU: Intel Core I5-6600 3.2GHz Quad Core Processor

MOBO: MSI Z170a KRAIT Gaming 3x ATX LGA1151

MEMORY: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-2133MHz

STORAGE: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive AND OCZ Trion 150 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

VIDEO CARD: MSI G-Force GTX 1060 6GB Armor OC

CASE: NZXT H440 (Matte Black/White) Mid Tower ATX

PSU: Antec HCG 520W 80+ Bronze Semi Modular

KEYBOARD: Corsair Strafe Mechanical Gaming CherryMX Red Key Switches

MOUSE: Corsair Raptor M45 Wired Optical

MONITOR: **Still yet to find one good one/On the lookout**

And that's pretty much it. Once again here is the PC Part Picker link to my build http://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/ZentryG/saved/#view=jVYJxr and as stated above please look at the Custom Budget Build #3 please or if no options are given then please disregard.
 

ZennPC

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Yeah I probably won't be going 1440p hence my reason as to get the 1060 in the first place, but thank you for the recommendation. And in regard to the monitor, thank you so much for your help, the monitor you posted, I reviewed, and may I say that I'm really impressed and to find out it's 25" is even better to my original choice of choosing a monitor wit 24" screen, so once again thank you, however I would like to get a few more monitor recommendations before I decide to stick to one specifically.