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If it's just gaming.. I would maybe sacrifice the SSD for now for a more powerful graphics card.  The 950 is respectable, but I think you would have a better time with a r9 380 or a gtx 960.

 

Thats my opinion anyway :)

my work in progress

i5 6600k  //  16gb g.skill ddr4 3000  //  evga gtx 980

custom water loop

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What do you think about going with 6600K and DDR4? From what I know these two CPUs are pretty much the same when it comes to performance, price and power consumption but IMHO going with 1151 seems logical as it is a newer tech and it would give you better upgrade options in the future.

 

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8 minutes ago, HEGGA said:

What do you think about going with 6600K and DDR4? From what I know these two CPUs are pretty much the same when it comes to performance, price and power consumption but IMHO going with 1151 seems logical as it is a newer tech and it would give you better upgrade options in the future.

 

i considered it but i like the reliability of the z97

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13 hours ago, greyb3ard said:

i considered it but i like the reliability of the z97

 

Fair enough :) Good luck with your build.

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($158.75 @ shopRBC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte G1.Sniper B7 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($144.50 @ Vuugo)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($49.41 @ NCIX)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($85.49 @ Amazon Canada)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($64.98 @ DirectCanada)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 390 8GB PCS+ Video Card  ($427.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Case: Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($64.98 @ DirectCanada)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($68.00 @ Vuugo)
Total: $1064.10
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-01 08:50 EST-0500

 

Will most likely bottleneck but since you do 1080p gaming I don't think it's going to be much of a hassle unless you play CPU heavy gaming

Or you can look into an i5 4460 + cheap B85 mobo

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If your PC is mainly for gaming than i will go with this. Reducing the price of CPU will allow you to insert better GPU. I personally like i5 for gaming over Fx 8 core, but sometime we have to look at our budget. Price of the case is not included in the list of your PC part picker but it is around $120 CAD in NCIX. So technically i am within your budget range because price of the case is included in my PC part picker list. I made this build because i think you are interested in Overclocking. So you can say it is an OC build. If you want you can change R9 390 with GTX 970, not a big difference. But R9 390 is slightly better ,

PC theme : Black/Red.

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/7twm4D

 

If you are not interested in OC than, i will go with this, it is an i5 6500 build:

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/J3qrzy

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16 hours ago, greyb3ard said:

im thinking about building my fist pc.

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/278bFT

this is what i have so far. what do u think? any suggestions? i plan on doing 1080p gaming on it

Get something like this instead. 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1241 V3 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($339.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 54.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($26.77 @ DirectCanada) 
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($74.98 @ NCIX) 
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($48.98 @ DirectCanada) 
Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($52.37 @ DirectCanada) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($68.25 @ Vuugo) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 390 8GB PCS+ Video Card  ($407.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($98.05 @ Vuugo) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($123.28 @ DirectCanada) 
Total: $1240.66
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-01 11:46 EST-0500

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