Building my first PC

[sam_v99]

Hi, I am about to build my first ever PC, I'm fairly nervous about messing up so are there any tips that I should know before building it? I know about getting rid of static electricity beforehand, but are there many other tips like that I should know?

Also, is there any changes I should make to my build? (My PC is primarily for gaming however I will be using it a lot for schoolwork and potentially programming) I would not really want to spend much more money though so please take that into consideration, although I may get 16gb RAM instead of 8gb.

Intel Core i5 4440 Haswell Processor - £150
Gigabyte GA-Z97X Game Plus Intel ATX Motherboard - £91
Corsair Memory Vengence Black 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz CAS 9 XMP - £37
EVGA NVIDIA GTX 960 4GB FTW ACX 2.0 Gaming graphics card - £192
Seasonic M12II EVO 520W Modular power supply SS520GM2 - £58
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5 inch 3D V-NAND SATA3 solid state drive - £63
Western Digital Blue WD10EZEX 1TB Internal Hard Drive - £49

 

[ScrewySqrl]

Should work very well

 

[Outlander_04]

You might as well use skylake hardware and give yourself upgrade options and a chance to overclock

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£164.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock Z170M Pro4S Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£78.45 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston FURY 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£40.94 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB Superclocked Video Card (£159.99 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£52.80 @ Aria PC)
Total: £497.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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