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Message: [QUOTE="neema_t, post: 12681624, member: 107035"] SSDs are cheap now so I'd strongly recommend one, a Crucial BX whatever for example. You can get by with a 128GB boot drive but I don't think they even exist any more. Seagate hard drives are cheap but I've never had one that hasn't failed so I won't recommend them (which isn't the same thing as recommending that you don't buy one, though, because my experience is anecdotal and I may just be unlucky), if I were you I'd stretch to a WD Blue drive at least if possible. For a PSU, I like Corsair and they do have some good cheap ones. Aim for 450W, people like to exaggerate and overspec but for a budget build it's not likely your eventual graphics card will blow a 450W power budget. If they still make the CS450M, I ran an i5 4690k (I think yours might be a generation or two older if it's on a Z77 motherboard) and a GTX 960 with one with no problems so that might be a good place to start. Get at least a semi-modular one if you can, otherwise you end up with useless cables that you have to tuck and tie up out of the way of your fans. The case... You can get ridiculously cheap cases but I wouldn't recommend it if this is your first build, bad cases can turn a normally simple build into a proper nightmare. I recommend Fractal Design's Core series, I had a Core 1300 which cost something like £30 and it was perfect until I bought a graphics card that didn't fit - that's not to say the case was unusually small or flawed, the card was literally the biggest consumer-grade card you could buy at the time. I assume the OS basically has to be Windows, unless you think you could get by with Linux? Ubuntu is a good place to start if you've not used it before. As for a capture card, I don't know anything about any of that so I'll leave that to you. [/QUOTE]

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