Building a gaming PC for around $1000, need some help

[Element]

My current PC really just doesn't cut it for gaming, so I'm building a new one. I have a build set up that I took from LinusTechTips (here it is by the way: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Element921/saved/3i3L), but it goes slightly over my budget and as I'm fairly new to PC building, I'm not sure if this is the best build I can get for this price. If anyone has any suggestions for it or even entirely new PC builds, that'd be much appreciated. I was planning on doing some game recording, editing and some livestreaming on it as well as gaming so I'd like parts that work good with that kind of stuff.

[Nexus]

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Captain-Nexus/saved/3hXg Take the Moniter, Keyboard, and Mouse out of the equation and it comes up to $1224.87 at the time of this post.

[Cypher]

Hmmm food for thoughts:
* buy a second SSD for your games
* double the amount of RAM if you're going to edit game footage

You'll thank me later :-)

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Element
never buy a memory stick, you need two identical, to work dual channel mode, if the chip is one that it will work on 800 MHz
better to buy two hard drives and make a raid 0 array level ( More about this is described in the documentation for the motherboard and well on Wikipedia )
7870 video card you have enough head
TOTAL $962.20
{LINK ENTFERNT}http://pcpartpicker.com/user/russianitman/saved/3i5s


{LINK ENTFERNT}http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#RAID_0

i used google translate because i am russian, sorry

on my pc 3 hdd seagate 7200.14 raid 0
read 450 MB, WRITE 350 MB

[_I_]

with a non k cpu, get a b85 board
then the tx3 cooler
since it cant overclock and is under 100w

and pick up a 2x4g 1600+ cl9- 1.5v ram kit
(1600 cl11 is as slow as 1333 cl9)

[Joker]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2sUGQ

[Rove]

Here, my best for under $1000 with WIndows 8.1 64bit:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2sZsG

Base Total: $1065.87
Promo Discounts: -$30.00
Mail-in Rebates: -$70.00
Shipping: $7.98
Total: $973.85

My other builds for other ideas:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Rove/saved/

[_I_]

again with 16g of ram?

why waste the extra $80 for ram that isnt needed and will be obsolite when ddr4 comes out

[Rove]

8GB of DDR2 in a old but good build (like Phenom x4 9950 Black edition CPU, Radeon HD 4870x2 GPU or just a newer GPU that has been added as upgrade since, 8GB DDR2-1066) still isn't obsolete for anything except when building a new system. Yet you can't upgrade a DDR2 system with the new DDR3 (and same with DDR4 compatibility, it does not work) so people who bought 8GB when they built their system still have a relevant system as long as the rest was good. DDR2 is now more expensive than DDR3.

He'd have to upgrade CPU & motherboard to upograde to DDR4 so best to get enough RAM now or as much as you can afford at least.