1000-1200 Canadian Budget Gaming Computer,

[IamNoah]

Hello, to be upfront with you I have no idea what I am doing. It's my first pc ever and i'm really confused, so I decided to come on here and get some help

Approximate Purchase Date: a week.

Budget Range. 1000-1200 Canadian

System Usage from Most to least Important: Gaming,Video Editing, Video recording, surfing, etc.

Parts Not required:Mouse,Headset,Mousepad,Keyboard.

Country: Canada

Parts Preferences: Intel.

Overclocking: Yes as long as it doesnt decrease my computers time of lasting.

SLI or Crossfire: No idea what it is.

Monitor Resolution: Whatever is good for csgo.

Additional Comments: If no one minds, please make the computer look appealing with basically anything a nice case or literately anything that makes it look physically appealing.

 

[SherbetAddict]

All blue colour build. Get a license key of windows 8.1 off reddit.com/r/microsoftsoftwareswap

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($247.98 @ DirectCanada)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($73.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($50.88 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($128.75 @ shopRBC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($56.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0 Video Card ($411.94 @ Newegg Canada)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black/Blue) ATX Mid Tower Case ($83.00 @ Vuugo)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ NCIX)
Monitor: LG 22MP55HQ-P 60Hz 22.0" Monitor ($118.88 @ Canada Computers)
Total: $1252.39
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-05 06:43 EDT-0400

 

[Woody1999]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($338.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($109.98 @ DirectCanada)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($59.99 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($86.98 @ DirectCanada)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($56.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Video Card: Club 3D Radeon R9 280 3GB royalKing Video Card ($219.88 @ Canada Computers)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($52.25 @ Vuugo)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($89.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Monitor: BenQ GL2460HM 60Hz 24.0" Monitor ($179.99 @ Memory Express)
Total: $1195.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-05 06:46 EDT-0400

I picked the Xeon E3-1231 V3 because it has all the benefits of an i7 for video editing, however, it is much cheaper because it doesn't have integrated graphics. I picked a nice blue board with some blue RAM, for colour coordination. 1TB of hard drive + 120GB SSD, perfect setup for gamers. I picked a good quality power supply to go with this as well. The graphics card is about equal to a GTX 960, but considerably cheaper.

Woody

 

[IamNoah]

Okay thanks guys, and woody. I'm not sure but I don't think the case you picked out for me has glass on the side or anything like that I could be wrong but, if you could, can you pick a different case, because like I said I would like it to be physically appealing

 

[SherbetAddict]

Okay thanks guys, and woody. I'm not sure but I don't think the case you picked out for me has glass on the side or anything like that I could be wrong but, if you could, can you pick a different case, because like I said I would like it to be physically appealing

Try these budget options: NZXT S340, Corsair Carbide SPEC-01, Corsair Carbide 200R, Deepcool Tesseract (Side Window), BitFenix Shadow, NZXT Phantom 410, BitFenix Prodigy and Thermaltake Commander MS-1.

 

[IamNoah]

Thank you to all of you