My First Build (Planning)

[agswiens]

I am considering building my first PC to game on instead of using my laptop, and I was wondering what people thought of my part list.  If you have any recommendations of ideas please let me know.  My price point is around $1000 CAD.  The monitors I am currently using are 2 24" 1080p Samsung SyncMaster BX2450L.

Specs:

CPU: AMD FX-6300 (with stock cooler)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 (or any other dual channel 8 GB gaming set I can get)

Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" SSD

Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" HDD

GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+

Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case (I might get blue instead)

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze ATX

OS: Windows 10 Home

[TheRandomness]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($256.19 @ Vuugo) 

Motherboard: MSI B85-G43 GAMING ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($138.98 @ Newegg Canada) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($54.47 @ DirectCanada) 

Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($54.78 @ DirectCanada) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($64.19 @ Vuugo) 

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card  ($285.53 @ DirectCanada) 

Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case  ($58.99 @ NCIX) 

Power Supply: Cooler Master 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($88.75 @ Vuugo) 

Total: $1001.88

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-25 12:35 EST-0500

[agswiens]

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