The list looks alright, although there's a few things I'd change about it;
- Screw that 760 and get yourself a GTX 970 instead! Sure it costs a little more but the performance difference is huge for the extra few bucks you pay!
- That SSD is JUNK. Since a year back or so they changed the manufacturing of them to use lesser components which only has about half the performance of what it originally did (and what is listed in specifications). There's been numerous complaints about the new revision being generally terribly performing. Samsung 840, 850 and Crucial M550 and M600 are the way to go if you ask me. Intel also make excellent SSD's but they're a bit pricy.
- Do yourself a favor and get an SSD with a capacity of at least 240GB, you'll thank yourself later. They are generally faster than the 120GB models and I know from experience that even if you're thinking you'll "just put the OS on it and some programs and it'll be enough" - Sure but all you'll be getting is faster boot times and then everything else once you've booted won't be taking advantage of the faster drive speeds and thus be just as slow as without an SSD, especially considering the WD Blue drive you listed is far from the fastest hard drive out there. Also by just spending the few bucks more for the bigger drive you'd be amazed how much more things you can store on it. I have 90% of my stuff all on my main SSD and my 1TB hard drive is used almost exclusively for backups since upgrading from a 120GB SSD where 2/3 of my files were on the hard drive. A little too much is always better than a little too less!
- Skip the Hyper TX3 CPU cooler and get the Hyper 212 Evo instead, it's not a whole lot more expensive but it is the better model which 99% of the internet recommends for a low-cost replacement for the semi-decent stock cooler Intel gives you.
- Also skip the Arctic Silver 5. Whilst it has a pretty strong reputation, that's based on old merits: It takes like a week of cure time before it reaches maximum effectiveness, dries out within a year and needs reapplying in order to maintain effectiveness (dried paste can cause your temperatures to rise some degrees, not dramatically enough that it'd overheat, but still some degrees higher than it would). It's also capacitive/conductive as it contains silver particles - If you spill it in the wrong place you can actually risk shorting out your motherboard! Besides, pretty much all coolers come pre-applied with a decent enough paste that should work just fine.
- If you insist on using after-market thermal paste, I couldn't vouch more for Arctic Cooling MX-4. It's completely non-conductive and non-capacitive, so you could smear it all over your components and it should still not damage them, spreads very nicely, requires no cure time whatsoever and they claim it lasts as long as 8 years without drying out, something I believe as, when upgrading a PC that'd been running for about 2 years, the MX-4 paste still looked nice and fresh. Unlike AS 5 which I'd used on an older PC which looked like dry mud when upgrading the cooler after only 8 months.
Other than these things it looks just fine!
i would just put the power supply up in power some more and with your SSD only the os should go on it because it needs space to write and read the os
The power supply is fine I'd say. 600W is enough for most general builds. Sure it's good to have some headroom so it doesn't run 100% but most things you read on the internet for minimum requirements is actually way more than your components will use. With a single GPU you'll likely not use more than 400-500w during actual usage. I saw a build once where an overclocked 780TI ran just fine under full load on a
450w power supply.
I'm planning in putting the OS and the games on the ssd for sure. It's 120 gb and with the OS only taking up 20gb I should have plenty of room for just about every program I plan to install.
Actually Windows 7 only uses around 16GB for the 64-bit version out the box as bare minimum. The 20GB specification is in order to have a bit of leeway. That said, with all the Windows Updates, the Service Pack and page file, you should expect more around 30-40GB of usage from a fully updated Windows 7. Then games just keep getting bigger, some newer AAA titles like Battlefield and Call of Duty being as large as 40-50+ GB. Even with smaller games, if you have many smaller ones they add up. Then more advanced software like Photoshop actually take up ~5-10GB in my experience! So, as said, even if you would be able to fit it all on a 120GB SSD you may find yourself struggling to free up space as there won't be a lot of free space remaining. A bigger drive around 240GB or more isn't a terrible lot more expensive yet gives you a lot more space that you might not think you'll need at first but will almost certainly be able to get good use for later on.
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