$1200-1300 USD Gaming / Editing / Financial Modeling Build

Cheaper build if you want it. The gtx 980 offers horrible price/performance value, I'd recommend the R9 390. Added memory that fit the blue color scheme, and a bigger psu for the r9.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i7-4790 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor $294.00 @ NCIX US
Motherboard ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard $67.98 @ Newegg
Memory G.Skill Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory $77.99 @ Newegg
Storage Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $99.89 @ OutletPC
Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $49.99 @ NCIX US
Video Card Gigabyte Radeon R9 390X 8GB SOC Video Card $428.99 @ SuperBiiz
Case Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case $49.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $44.99 @ Newegg
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 OEM (64-bit) $86.75 @ OutletPC
Keyboard Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse $26.98 @ Newegg
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total (before mail-in rebates) $1262.55
Mail-in rebates -$35.00
Total $1227.55
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-13 16:43 EDT-0400
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