I've been using a crucial drive for the past year without issue - a crucial MX200 (the updated version of mine) seems to have the same warranty per newegg, and saves $80. 750ti's aren't the best card for value - an AMD 265 will pull ahead or match it in games, and costs the same as the card you're looking at. Intel CPU's are comfortably ahead of AMD right now - while AMD is still the cheapest way to get 8 cores, so giving the best bang for your buck with heavily multi-threaded tasks, intel CPU's can process more per cycle and so are faster in the majority of tasks. If you are looking for heavy performance in multithreaded tasks you'll be better served by a non-E model with a higher power consumption - it'll make little difference in temperature or your energy bills, but will let the CPU run at a higher speed when all cores are in use and costs less to buy. The plain FX-8370 costs $10 less, for instance. AMD's socket FM2+ will be about as fast as that system if you're looking to do general computer stuff (word processing, web browsing and gaming), and are a lot cheaper. They have more modern CPU's and chipsets, so the cores are a bit more powerful but they only go up to quad core (which isn't an issue most of the time, very few programs will use 4 cores never mind 8). Intel CPU's are a lot faster, but more expensive to match. Generally an intel dual core system costs about as much as an AMD quad core system, while an intel i5 quad core will cost as much as the 8-core system you're looking at (and will run rings around it most of the time)