Thoughts?

First build ever (for mostly gaming but also a little bit of work)

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/hZKhBm

There's a few problems..

That motherboard isn't powerful enough for the CPU from what i've heard, I think you need to with a 990 board? (someone will correct me)

Also if you are going to be putting windows onto that 3TB drive then you could run into problems. First off, to be able to use ALL 3TB of it you will have to set it to GBT instead of MBR. But the problem there is that you can only boot windows on an MBR drive. So either you get a 2TB drive, or a 2TB drive and an SSD.

 

For your budget I would personally go with few more dollars on the motherboard till it reaches that 990 level so probably about 30-40 canadian bucks more (someone will correct me). I would also buy your copy of windows off of one of the guys here on the forum: https://teksyndicate.com/forum/buysaletrade/wts-windows-keys-and-few-other-products-paypal-bitcoin/188413

He has them for 10 bucks US, this also means that you can spend that extra money on a r9 270x, and a decent one if you go with a 2TB Barracuda and no SSD.

New topic about this can be found here.

https://teksyndicate.com/forum/build-pc/first-build-need-help/189893