Hey guys. In high school I built my first desktop, it has done me well through college but I'm wanting to build a new one now that I'm getting married and heading off to grad school. I've been getting more BSODs than normal on my current rig and I wouldn't want that to happen when I was in the middle of any important grad work. I'm a little rusty/behind the times and want to make sure the parts I have picked out will all work fine.
I'll mainly be using the computer for school work, music, and a little gaming on the side. It'll be a family computer that my wife will use as well. I don't need something super high performance, but I want it to be a quality machine for at least four years or so. My budget is $800 but I'd like to stay under that if possible. I already have a monitor and speakers and will be scrapping everything from my old PC except the sound card.
Case: Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX
Motherboard: Gigabyte AM3 ATX
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955
RAM: G.Skill 4GB (2 x 2GB)
Hard drive: WD Caviar Black 500GB 7200 RPM SATA
GPU: XFX Radeon HD 4770
PSU: Antec EarthWatts 650W
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit OEM
All of this puts me at $791.98 (including shipping). I work at Best Buy so I'm hoping I can get some parts (PSU, case, HDD) at a discount. Let me know if you would recommend any changes based on the parts I have already picked out. Is any of this overkill (would give me slightly better performance but not worth the money for what I'm doing)? I appreciate the help!
I'll mainly be using the computer for school work, music, and a little gaming on the side. It'll be a family computer that my wife will use as well. I don't need something super high performance, but I want it to be a quality machine for at least four years or so. My budget is $800 but I'd like to stay under that if possible. I already have a monitor and speakers and will be scrapping everything from my old PC except the sound card.
Case: Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX
Motherboard: Gigabyte AM3 ATX
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955
RAM: G.Skill 4GB (2 x 2GB)
Hard drive: WD Caviar Black 500GB 7200 RPM SATA
GPU: XFX Radeon HD 4770
PSU: Antec EarthWatts 650W
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit OEM
All of this puts me at $791.98 (including shipping). I work at Best Buy so I'm hoping I can get some parts (PSU, case, HDD) at a discount. Let me know if you would recommend any changes based on the parts I have already picked out. Is any of this overkill (would give me slightly better performance but not worth the money for what I'm doing)? I appreciate the help!
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