Thinking of building a computer for the first time.

[peenutz47]

I'm thinking of building my own PC and I came up with some stuff. Just looking for opinions on it. Kind of on a budget.

Rosewill BLACKHAWK Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case, come with Five Fans, window side panel, top HDD dock

ASUS F2A85-M PRO FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Rosewill HIVE Series HIVE-750 750W

AMD A10-5800K Trinity 3.8GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 100W Quad-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 7660D AD580KWOHJBOX

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL

Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner - Bulk - OEM

 

[johnsonjohnson]

Hi. What's your budget, monitor resolution and preferred websites for parts? You don't need a 750W PSU.

 

[peenutz47]

Hi. What's your budget, monitor resolution and preferred websites for parts? You don't need a 750W PSU.

Budget is about $800, preferred website is newegg and i don't really have a preference on monitor resolution.

 

[johnsonjohnson]

I meant to ask what your current monitor's native resolution i.e. 1920 x 1080, etc. is? Does this budget include the OS too?

 

[peenutz47]

I meant to ask what your current monitor's native resolution i.e. 1920 x 1080, etc. is? Does this budget include the OS too?

1366x768 and the budget does include OS if possible

 

[johnsonjohnson]

If you don't plan to upgrade to a monitor with higher resolution, this build below would be a good at your current resolution. Do you plan to do that in the near future? Feel free to make changes as you'd like like drop to a dual-core, a different case, Windows 8, etc.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($199.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($47.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB Video Card ($123.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($24.98 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $706.89
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-02-01 18:06 EST-0500)

Here's a building guide with videos: http://techreport.com/review/23624/how-to-build-a-pc-the-tech-report-guide

 

[stantheman123]

If you do upgrade to 1920x1080 this build is nice

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ATSC