So I've never own a proper desktop in my life always had labtops because im always on the go and I have a lenovo y500 kinda outdated but it still runs fine but now that I'm getting into my 3rd year as a CS major I kinda wanted to get a desktop.
So here ya go what do you think?
750 ti is a placeholder I play nothing but CS:GO right now so that card should be fine and other games at medium settings it's a placeholder for the 800 series nvidia gpu's coming out gonna get an 870 maybe an 880
still need a power supply want it to be single rail and have the optional "fan stays off at low wattage" feature
also live near a microcenter so I can get a discount on the cpu
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($314.99 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($89.99 @ NCIX US)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste ($6.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($209.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($92.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($134.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($105.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB FTW ACX Video Card ($169.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair 450D ATX Mid Tower Case ($114.39 @ Mwave)
Monitor: Asus VG248QE 144Hz 24.0" Monitor ($249.23 @ Amazon)
Total: $1489.52
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-06 23:56 EDT-0400)