First time budget build

the_emptier

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Hey all, I'm looking to build my very first computer. Mainly to perform tasks such as as gaming, lots of movies/music, possibly music recording. Literally starting from scratch so OS, monitor, keyboard, will be needed to take into account. for gaming the stuff i imagine to be playing will be various CS's, TF2, Portal, Starcraft, battlefield, LFD2..etc. and LANs.

I'm not totally knowledgeable with what to get but i've been researching around, all i know for sure is i want a big HD because that's always been my biggest problem, as well as a nice case with lots of room for upgrades down the road, and cool lookin' one too other than that anything that's good and in my budget should do.


Budget...

It's not for sure yet all but probably 600-800 for everything. 600 i can do for sure.
Like i said, big HD, good enough parts to perform the tasks and games i want, nice big case, probably like a master cooler haf 922. I have some really experienced and knowledgeable friends who i'll be asking as well and who will help me actually get it together and running later on but i'd figured i'd ask the wonderful people of the internet as well. Thanks!
 
Whoa, $800 including monitor and OS is going to be very difficult. I don't have enough expertise to accomplish that one.
 
Not really possible with $800

monitor - $130
OS - $100
keyboard & mouse - $20
case - $90
PSU - $60
HDD - $80
DVD burner - $20
RAM - $110

sub-total: $610

$190 for CPU + Mobo + Video card, Not really enough for gaming machine...
 
ok let's take away OS, monitor and keyboard/mouse

theres at least like 50 darn pc's in my family i'm sure theres an OS lying around and i have workable monitor and a keyboard/mouse

so 600-800 for just the machine
 
yeah, i mean is it bad to get an 850w? or just completely unnecessary?

and how quickly do prices change on newegg? i won't be actually buying/assembling till august because traveling all over the country right now
 
It is really good
onee plus point that no need to worry about psu if you are overclocking or cfing plenty of power
 
Prices and deals change often on newegg, also the price of ram almost seems to change like the stock market..lol Not that bad but more than every other component.
 
do you guys think the CPU's stock hsf and fan will be good enough to keep it nice and cool? and hopefully not ridiculously loud?

and also i'm maybe rethinking the case, i talked to some friends and they said they wouldn't really choose that one..and i kind of want a blue theme anyways

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133176

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133176

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811517004

are these any good? i like the thermaltake one
theres just so much stuff out there it's amazing...trying to sort through it sucks, i'm trying to not go to far into newegg or i'll re-think everything hahaha
 
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