$900-1000 Gaming & Game Development PC

I think you would benefit from this build.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor $187.56 @ OutletPC
Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste $6.75 @ OutletPC
Motherboard ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X Killer ATX LGA1150 Motherboard $114.99 @ Micro Center
Memory G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory $59.99 @ Newegg
Storage Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $69.98 @ OutletPC
Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $44.99 @ Best Buy
Video Card MSI GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card $209.99 @ NCIX US
Case NZXT Phantom 530 (Red) ATX Full Tower Case $124.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply $19.99 @ Newegg
Optical Drive Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer $14.97 @ OutletPC
Wireless Network Adapter TP-Link TL-WN881ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter $18.83 @ Mwave
Keyboard Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse $27.85 @ OutletPC
Speakers Genius SP-HF800A 20W 2ch Speakers $41.21 @ Amazon
Other NZXT Sleeved LED Lights $9.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total (before mail-in rebates) $1042.08
Mail-in rebates -$90.00
Total $952.08
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-09 21:22 EDT-0400

Please, ignore the speakers and mice.

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