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Hi there!

I saw your link to "pcbuildsonabudget", and it looks pretty good. There may be better bang for your buck if you went with an AMD processor instead of an Intel one.

You can likely get a cheaper motherboard also, since if you've never built a PC before, you probably aren't going to need fancy features, and if you're trying to stick to a budget, you'll not need more than a single PCI-ex16 slot for a second graphics card. 

If you're not planning on getting a boot SSD, then a single TB of storage ought to be just fine.

Also, mostly an aesthetic thing, but if you have a single drive and get a mini-ITX or micro-ATX motherboard by dropping the extra PCI-e slots, you could probably get a smaller case, too.

Other thing to consider is whether or not you need a Wi-fi card, since those are a fairly cheap but fairly important part, and can influence what motherboard you can use, since they take up a PCI-ex1 slot.

I'll try to cook up a few options. You're in the US, right?

Also, rest assured that building a PC is simple. Just be careful, don't drop anything, and kludge together some static protection at very least.

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Had a spare minute: i5-4690 and GTX 970 3.5 GB