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building my first PC and need some help!
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Build Help:

Have you read the sidebar and rules? (Please do)

Yes!

What is your intended use for this build? The more details the better.

School and gaming, mostly. I'm a designer so I'll be running things like Illustrator, Photoshop etc., and possibly some video editing software occasionally. I mostly play TF2 and Overwatch and I'd be interested in possibly streaming both of those to Twitch as well—although that's less important since I'm not sure what my internet speeds will be like.

If gaming, what kind of performance are you looking for? (Screen resolution, FPS, game settings)

120 fps in TF2 on dx9 (I don't mind slightly lower resolutions, but ideally 1080p ). A stable minimum of 60 fps in Overwatch (on any settings) would be nice too.

What is your budget (ballpark is okay)?

~$900 CAD without the case (bought it in a sale a while ago)

In what country are you purchasing your parts?

Canada

Post a draft of your potential build here (specific parts please). Consider formatting your parts list. Don't ask to be spoonfed a build (read the rules!).

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor $256.95 @ Vuugo
Motherboard MSI Z170A SLI PLUS ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $174.98 @ DirectCanada
Memory Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory $49.99 @ Newegg Canada
Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $62.93 @ Vuugo
Video Card MSI GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card $268.50 @ Vuugo
Case Fractal Design Define S w/Window ATX Mid Tower Case $93.21 @ DirectCanada
Power Supply SeaSonic 520W 80 Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $85.54 @ shopRBC
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $992.10
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-13 19:20 EDT-0400

Provide any additional details you wish below.

I've never done this before and I don't know what I'm doing... I mostly went off some advice from friends and www.logicalincrements.com so any advice would be helpful. I'm also not looking to upgrade in the very near future, so I'd like this build to last a couple years at least (I don't mind low settings)

Thanks for reading :)

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