Advice on Building First Desktop

[jyshrout]

So I am currently looking into building my own desktop and am a little lost in where I should prioritize the various components. The current setup that I am considering sits around $1250 if I bought everything from Newegg and while I understand that I can find some of these parts cheaper elsewhere I just want to be sure that I am not looking at something that is way above what I need. I am mostly building this because I would like to fully enjoy the experience of playing a great game on a machine that can properly handle it. I currently play on my laptop and I am very limited in most aspects when it comes to graphics and general game play. I have not done enough research as of yet to verify if the things I've chosen so far are compatible or not but if someone could offer some advice that would be awesome! Thank you so much!

On a side-note: I have already thought about having both an SSD and an HDD but I'm currently not tech savvy nor patient enough to figure out how to create partitions and what not. That is currently a thing of the future for me.

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[rvilkman]

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/26JtC
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/26JtC/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/26JtC/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($35.98 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Hero ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($189.99 @ NCIX US)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($68.85 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($179.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card ($329.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Professional 750W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($85.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($16.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1252.75
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-22 17:52 EST-0500)

Put everything but the mobo to newegg, but the mobo is just so much cheaper from NCIX that it is well worth the hassle, $40 pretty much.

You can of course go cheaper by getting the cheaper GPU you had listed. But this one is a good reference anyway.

And there really is no need to do stuff with partitions and such. You should be able to install most things on the 250GB SSD, just put media files such as videos on the HDD.

 

[jyshrout]

I'm sorry if this a terribly ignorant question, but if I install both would they just show up separately under my Hard Disk Drives?

 

[rvilkman]

Yes, that is exactly how they will show.

And when installing the OS you can choose which drive to install to. Same with installing applications in Windows 7 you can choose where to install generally.