Newbie Budget Build Help!

ZennPC

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Hey everyone, I'm a young aspiring computer enthusiast with a passion for building pc's. I just wanted to inform everyone that I am very new to the pc building community and I'm very excited to get into building my first computer. Just for some background I did alot of research on my behalf so that I know well enough of what I'm getting myself into so don't worry much.

The reason I'm posting this is to get other computer enthusiasts to review my build that I'm planning to buy and start building for myself. I'd like some critism and suggestions as to how I could improve my build and my knowledge for computer building so please do comment.

My build is a gaming budget build of approx $2000 AUD. I live in Australia so I'm afraid the best I could save for my first build is $2000 and availability of computer components is not exactly... vast.

My build is as follows:

CPU - Intel Core I5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor LGA1150 Chip

MOBO - MSI Z97-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

MEMORY - Kingston HyperX Fury Red 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory

STORAGE - Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr 5 Video Card

CASE - NZXT H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case

PSU - Corsair CSM 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

MONITOR - BenQ RL2455HM 24.0" 60Hz Monitor

KEYBOARD - Corsair STRAFE Mechanical Gaming Keyboard CherryMX Red Keyboard

MOUSE - MSI Interceptor DS B1 Wired Optical Mouse

And that's about it! If you couldn't tell already I for some reason love MSI and the whole Red and Black theme of this build so I'd like to stay as close to those likes of mine as possible, but if required I don't mind being flexible. Here's the PC part picker link to my build: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/ZentryG/saved/VZd48d

Thankyou so much for your time and effort,
I'd really appreciate the help,
Zen.
 
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Question from ZennPC : "Newbie Budget Build Help!"

You could use the latest generation i5, DDR4 and the GTX 1060 for better performance and less money. Keeps the same red/black theme and adds an SSD. Bonus is you can overclock should you decide you ever want to.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($274.00 @ Centre Com)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212X 82.9 CFM CPU Cooler ($49.00 @ Umart)
Motherboard: ASRock B150 GAMING K4/HYPER ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($146.99 @ Mwave Australia)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($123.00 @ CPL Online)
Storage: OCZ TRION 150 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($88.00 @ Newegg Australia)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($68.00 @ CPL Online)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB SC GAMING Video Card ($409.00 @ CPL Online)
Case: NZXT H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case ($195.00 @ CPL Online)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($99.00 @ CPL Online)
Monitor: BenQ RL2455HM 24.0" 60Hz Monitor ($249.00 @ CPL Online)
Keyboard: Corsair STRAFE Wired Gaming Keyboard ($139.00 @ Umart)
Mouse: MSI Interceptor DS B1 Wired Optical Mouse ($30.00)
Total: $1869.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-31 11:35 AEST+1000
 

ZennPC

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Thank you for your suggestion BadActor, let me see if this fits into my budget here and whether the parts are available, thank you again for your effort and time.
 

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