As the title says, I'm finally building a new desktop and was looking for some input. I'm primarily going to game on it and probably do a bit of photo editing from it. My ideal budget is around $1600 - $1700. Kras has helped me tremendously with building this one from the ground up but I'd still like as much outside opinion as I can get because I've been out of the loop with desktops for quite a long time.
I was mostly just asking to see if there was anything that I could save some money on or if I was in dire need of anything to be added or upped. I can go just a little over the $1700 mark, but I'd prefer to stay around $1650 to $1700. Also if I needed to squeeze a bit more from this, I could remove the CD/DVD drive and just find one laying around to use. I don't use cd's at all save for maybe one or two select games, but I haven't used it in a long, long time. I'd guess the only thing I'd really use it for is to install Windows, but if that's it then I can simply plug one in and then remove it afterwards. Not sure if it'd serve any other purpose for me, though. I'm not really sure about my case. I'm likely one of the few people who'll ever see it, so I don't need a really fancy one, but I've put one on there that's about $50. A couple of the others I was looking at were around $80/$90, but that would put me over my preferred budget.
http://pcpartpicker....f1/saved/3q9tt6
A quick list at this time:
CPU: AMD FX-9370 4.4GHz 8-core
GPU: GTX 780
MB: Asus M5199FX Pro R2.0 ATX AM3+
2x 4gb memory
1TB HDD
128gb SSD
H100i water cooler



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