Help Building 1st PC

Hi all , I'm interested in building my first gaming pc. I've done some research, reading up on forums/cideo tutorials on youtube ect. I still don't feel comfortable enough so decided to join a forum where I might find people who are fimiliar with builds. These are the parts I'll be purchasing....

Intel Core i7-6700 4.0GHz

Gygabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Corsair H100i GTX Cooler

G. Skill Ripjaw V Series 16gb (2x8gb) DDR4-2133 Memory

GeForce GTX 1080 8GB (Gygabyte Xtreme)

Samsung SSD 250GB EVO

Western DiGita Blue 1TBD 3.5 7200 Hard Drive

Corsair CX 750w 80+ Bronze

Cool Master Maker 5 Mid-Tower Case

Microsoft Windows 10 Home Edition 64 bit

Asus VX24AH 1440p Monitor

Razer keyboard/mouse

Estimated price is $2400....tell me what you guys think. After some input I'll start ordering my parts. Thanks!

@lxlhotsaucelxl: Hello and welcome.

Great setup, needs a couple of things though.

SSD and HDD. I don't know if you missed them, or you just forgot to type them.

A 250/500GB SSD + 1GB HDD would be great. Samsung 850 series (EVO or PRO) for SSD and a WD Blue 1TB for HDD.

Also this monitor is just 1080p (although its 144Hz). Are you sure you want to go only for 1080p with this system?

Is this PC mainly for gaming? What else will you be doing on it, if anything?

@lxlhotsaucelxl: Build a mini ITX system, those extra PCI-E slots are useless, Nvidia only support 2 way SLI now. The ram is Overkill, especially with a 4 core cpu, speed on them doesn't matter, buy cheap, would recommend 16gb. The Case is way too big, go mini itx. Get a 27inch monitor on Amazon be cheaper than that asus. Would recommend changing the cpu over to a 5820k, OC to 4.5ghz be a better bang for your $.

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-G276HL-Gbd-27-Inch-Widescreen/dp/B00G5AEZOQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467777058&sr=8-1&keywords=27inch+monitor < be shocked if you noticed a difference.

Would not recommending going Razor, overpriced when there's better out for cheaper...

Also do you have a micro center near you?

Or u could buy a digital storm desktop. For that same amount of the price.

@Coseniath: forgot to add the WD 1tb Hard Drive thank you. Thanks for the recommendation for SSD. I was going for best bang for r buck for monitor just to save some money since 4k monitors double/triple the price unless u have something in mind?

@zaku101: I don't understand anything regarding over clocking, just thinking of all the wires have me scared :(. The monitor you mention I will look into, something bang for your buck until I update to possible a 4k monitor.

@Curlyfrii87:this will be a gaming pc only

@Coseniath: I forgot to add the WD Blue 1tb Hard Drive, I will look into the Samsung SSD, I wanted a 4k monitor but prices were triple the price.

Full tower is useless on your setup - single GPU, 1 HDD / SSD, no other special PCIe cards... I recommend on Phanteks Enthoo Pro / Eclipse / Evolv

i7 is useless (mostly) for gaming, you could save 100$ and pickup 6600K

32Gb of RAM is useless if you want to future proof yourself 16Gb will do.

Moved to Hardware forum

Since you want to save money, you can look at Asus VX24AH which is the same price with the monitor you look, but instead of 1080p / 144Hz / TN panel / 1ms, it has 1440p / 60Hz / IPS panel / 5ms.

But its down to what you prefer, high Hz/low ms or IPS+1440p?

Okay in that case, this is a beast of a rig just to run 1080p on a 24 inch monitor. I would think you should at least go to a 1440p monitor.

Also, I would take your RAM down to 16gb to save some coin. You can always add more RAM later if you really need/want it and 16gb is plenty for gaming.

Also, unless i missed it, I don't see a power supply listed. Do you have that in your budget?

Have heard of cyberpower/ibuypower but never digital storm, are they a great company?

Excellent company makes custom water looped gaming PCs, I believe they had some ultra cooled GTX780Ti at some of their builds going no more than 30C on load.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/digital-storm-bolt-ii-review/1100-6422673/ the cost is high but you get top quality performance.

Added and switch some items, ram, monitor, hard drives. What's more efficient 4x4gb ram or 2x8gb ram leaving 2 memory slots empty?

Benefit from 4x4 is only by 2011 and 2011-3 sockets or should I say X99 MOBOs.

Better off with 2x8Gb.

6700k also has 2 memory channels, but literally for gaming there's isn't too big of a difference between single and dual channel, even less so with dual vs quad channel

and in the case of 6700k and 4x4 vs 2x8, the 2x8 is the better option