This is what I have so far:
CPU - Core i5 3570K
Motherboard - Gigabyte Z77-UP4 TH
RAM - Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Hard Drive - Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
Graphics Card - XFX Radeon HD 7870 Core
PSU - Coolermaster GX650
OS - Windows 8 Pro
Display - ASUS VH236H
Keyboard - Nighthawk-X8
Case - Antec P280
Based on this initial build. He had a laptop before this, so all he has is a mouse. The current total, looking at Newegg, TigerDirect, and Amazon, comes to $1,239. Maybe a little more. We're wondering if he should step up to a more future-proof CPU. He is also interested in getting an SSD instead of an HDD, but he isn't sure if it's worth the money. With Steam, he would be able to install and uninstall games to mediate the space so he was thinking of buying a 120GB SSD for about $100 to store the OS, games, and applications and 500GB HDD to store other stuff. He mostly streams music and we have more than enough devices to play DVDs and Blu-Rays so he opted to let the Disk drive go. He also plans on doing some game development on it. I just wanted recommendations from you guys. He wants to keep the total (minus monitor/keyboard) under $1000.
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