First PC Build

[natef0216]

I'm looking to do my first pc build. I will be buy exclusively from newegg. I don't plan on doing any high demand gaming. But taking college courses online for computer programming. Here is what i have thus far and will be placing the order soon. The only thing i have been real iffy on is the graphics card and ssd. I will be running a ssd for my OS which will be window's 7 and a standard 500G hard drive for everything else. My current total without a graphics card is 1194.91. Like i said i havn't been able to settle on one. I'm looking for around 200 for a GPU. Please give me some experienced input. Thanks.

COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case with USB 3.0, Black Interior and Four Fans-1x 230mm front RED LED fan, 1x 140mm rear fan, 1x 230mm top fan, and 1x 230mm side fan

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127682

Western Digital WD Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - OEM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136769

GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD5 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128509

COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series RSC00-80GAD3-US 1200W ATX 12V v2.3 / EPS 12V v2.92 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171055CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 15000) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9B


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233170

LG Black 14X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 5X DVD-RAM 12X BD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA BDXL Blu-ray Burner, Bare Drive, 3D Play Back (WH14NS40) - OEM


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136250

Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F120GBGT-BK 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233191

AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8350FRHKBOX


http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1224793.19-113-284

[David (PassMark)]

If you aren't gaming, or storing a lot of movies, then you might not need the 2nd 500GB hard drive (you could also use an external USB3 drive if you needed extra storage / backup later).

Even a low end video card is fine for programming (unless you are developing games, which you won't be initially in your course).

The 1200W power supply would seem to be massive over kill. Something around 550W would make more sense, especially if you do decide to take a low end video card.

If you are doing programming then Visual Studio will use all the cores in the FX-8350. But for single threading tasks it isn't the best CPU.

[godfather]

if you really want to spend this much on a GPU, this is the best one to buy right now: GTX 650 Ti Boost:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130909

but as David said, it doesn't sound like you need to spend that much.

I'd save the money and go with this one: Radeon HD 6670
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102988

It's cheap but it's no slouch.

[natef0216]

Thanks for the addvice

i dont believe i would be able to run this card because it uses pci express 3.0. The mother board i chose only has 2.0.

[godfather]

It doesn't matter. It's backwards compatible, so it should still work.