First ever PC build. College, workstation, and casual gaming.

If you're willing to pay a bit more this is a MUCH better GPU that will satisfy all your gaming needs and the ssd is better too, if you don't want to pay a bit more a r9 280x is a really good choice too PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor $166.99 @ SuperBiiz
Motherboard MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard $37.99 @ Newegg
Memory Pareema 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory $48.99 @ Newegg
Storage Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $68.98 @ OutletPC
Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $48.60 @ SuperBiiz
Video Card PowerColor Radeon R9 290 4GB PCS+ Video Card $259.99 @ Newegg
Case Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case $54.00 @ Newegg
Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $69.30 @ SuperBiiz
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $754.84
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-20 22:13 EDT-0400
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