How is this for a gaming PC?

Do yourself a favour. Go here and price out the components for that system. Newegg is both reputable and has decent prices. That will give you an idea of how much it would cost to build the system yourself. Building computers is not especially difficult, can be quite fun and gives you great insight into your own computer.

Also, with a home brewed system, adding additional storage is trivial. By way of example, I have 3 TB of HD as internal hard drives with an additional 4 TB of external hard drive storage. Hard drives are amazingly cheap these days. There's no real reason to ever delete a game, if you don't want to.

The system you are looking at is not overclocked and is water-cooled. Water cooling is probably not necessary for that system.


Going point by point of your post: I didn't know AZZA made montiors. They do make computer cases. Their cases are ok. As for other monitors, Dell makes some decent ones, as do the other usual suspects. For gaming, what you want is fast response time (<=2 ms). For a LAN connection, you will need an ethernet cable. They are cheap. The computer does not appear to be wifi capable. You will need a card for that.

As for optical drives, they are handy if you have any cd's, DVD's or bluray discs lurking about. It can also be handy for burning back ups for downloaded games. There is no known schedule for releasing new graphic cards and CPU's. The hard drive is plenty big for downloads.

In my opinion, you would save money and get a better PC if you built your own.

For one thing, when you build your own, you aren't paying for labour. You're providing that yourself.

There some good guides out there, even on Youtube. The value to building your own is that you get exactly what you want. You have absolute control over what components are used and over any short cuts. Every pre-built PC skimps on quality somewhere. PC's these days are fairly simple to build. The connections between components are largely standardized. Here is an excellent guide to PC construction. Tom's Hardware is an invaluable site for the modder.

As for the pre-built you are looking at, the ethernet cable connects your pc to the outside world. One end fits in the socket on the PC and the other connects to another ethernet port, typically a router, switch or modem.

Well, i'm not dead set on Cyberpower. That being said, I am saving at least $200 USD by doing it myself. This is what I'm looking at: pcpartpicker.com/list/tMKphq

It's just that I'm concerned about building one myself and screwing it up somehow. 

Ok, get a Core i5-6500, the i7 is overkill for that configuration and is just a waste of money. I wouldn't get an i7 unless you get a much more powerful video card like a GTX1080 or Titan X. You also don't need the additional network card, the motherboard already has a Gigabit network port.

The audio card is ok, but unless you pair it with some really good audio system you should skip it as well. The integrated audio on modern motherboards is more than enough for gaming, and if you are an audiophile you have to go for a much better external audio card solution (like a Focusrite). Again, unless you really need stellar audio quality for your expensive speakers/headphones, then skip this.

Spend the saved money on a better videocard and a much better power supply. Go for a Corsair RM model, like a RM650x or RM650i (depending on budget). Never go cheap on a power supply.

As for SSDs, go Samsung or Intel. Samsung has the fastest models out there, Intel is very close in terms of performance per price. Both are extremely reliable, even the cheapest models. 250GB should suffice for your operating system and I would configure storage in one of the following manners if you don't want to spend too much:

1. If you don't plan on installing many games, get a single 500+ GB SSD and put everything on there, while keeping an external USB3 hard drive (1TB and up) for backup;
   
2. Get a 250GB SSD for Windows and applications, and a 2TB hard drive for data and games.
   

That looks ok, just remove the Intel network card because you don't need it and check if you can find a better power supply (good ones usually start at $60).

P.S. I totally missed the Hyper 212. You don't need that either, the Core i5 comes with a small cooler that is more than enough to handle it. It's also easier to install, so you save both money and time. The 212 is a "nice to have" but you won't see any difference with or without it besides looking at better temps and feeling good about it. These new processors are very good anyway.

P.P.S. I have more than 20 games installed, one of which is Skyrim with mods. Most of them are rather huge, but they are in total less than 500GB. You have enough space with that configuration, but you can replace the Intel 600p SSD with a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5" and save $10 more.

Friends of mine are talking me into building my own PC, and I guess I'm going to try, nervous as I am.

But they're going to need to talk me through it every step of the way.

Beware!
Motherboard, rams and HDDs are very sensitive. If you break a single small part or your body electricity shocks a part, you'll lose some big money!

Okay I changed the power supply. Do I need speakers? Are they in the monitor? I plan on using a headset that I have. Also, how many surge protecter outlets (if I'm saying this correctly) will I need? I already have one that has 6 outlets. So a wired connection comes with this build? As I have said, I already have a ethernet cable.
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Like I've posted in another thread, when it comes to primary storage, always consider getting an SSHD(solid state hybrid drive), it loads faster than an HDD and is more affordable than an SSD, whilst having a similar amount of storage space as the former(which is more than an SSD). A great middle ground it is.

I'd rather build a PC than do a cubic right angle weave. Every single time. 

If you want an SSHD, I recommend Seagate's Firecuda since they are pretty much the only SSHD that still spin at 7200 RPM.

My budget for storage is always more than the rest of the PC and I've been completely spoiled by SSDs. My next upgrade will be a 2TB Samsung 850 Pro to replace my 1TB 840 Evo serving as my dedicated Steam games SDD.

Seagate's Firecuda better than the Blue WD?

I think all of them are garbage.

Also Samsung SSDs are expensive. There are other good brands in the market like ADATA. Well it seems the price of Samsung SSDs has dropped to 1/2. I could have got a 250GB right now with the price I paid 1.5 years ago.