Helping someone with little knowledge

[Martin953]

Hi

 

As the title states, I have little to no knowledge in how to build a computer or how it works. But as I am playing a lot of games I do want to build a new computer.
A friend of mine has already set up a build for me which he has said will work well and I just wanted to see you guys thoughts and opinions, 

 

Whole build in pcpartpicker: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/DbZWLk

 

The buid:

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard: Asus Z97-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 4GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: I do not know the power supply
Extra fan: Noctua NF-P12-1300 54.4 CFM 120mm Fan

 

Any tips would be helpful. Is this a good build? Should I change something? Add something?
What I want this computer to be able to is play most games in really high setting with stable framerates.

The price range would go with that build as a minimum. There's no real maximum, maybe around 2000$?

 

And while we are at it, I am more than afraid of building the pc. I have seen a lot of videos and tutorials of builds which makes me think that I know a little bit about it but is there any information I should know about? Like beginner mistakes.

 

Thank you for the help

[gt403cyl]

The only thing that jumps out at me is why are you doing the ram that way....

That's  $184...

 

You could do

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/pny-memory-md16384kd31600x9

 

Other than that it's a good build, best advice I can give is take your time follow the instructions that come with the parts, it really isn't that difficult.

[brob]

When buying 2 or 4 sticks of memory at the same time one should buy a kit of matched modules. This will guaranty dual channel memory operation at the advertised speed and timings.

[Captain_WD]

~snip~

 

 

Hey Martin953,

 

The plan seems good.

Regarding the storage, WD Red is a drive that is designed for NAS systems and RAID arrays. As such it has additional features that wouldn't be used in a regular desktop and it should perform similar to WD Green. I would recommend to consider WD Green as a storage drive for this build (if you are planning on storing less-demanding applications and massive media on the HDD). Here's a link to the drive: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=XuWzSr

 

Captain_WD.