Originally posted by gamer89117
If your going to get a monitor go with 1920x1200 resolution, it makes a huge difference and is worth it. Also, about refresh rates, unless you're super human, you cant tell the difference between a 60ghz and 120ghz monitor. For hard drives, get a 120gb SSD for your operating system stuff and then a 1TB 7,200 HDD for everything else.
As Toke said, I built this months ago now, though I'm looking at getting a second monitor, my first monitor is a Asus PB238Q 1920 x 1080 IPS 23" display, I now want to use it as a second portrait display then get a new centre display preferably of 2560 x 1440 resolution and at larger size so it would look good next to (eventually) 2 portrait monitors. Speakers are optional, I use an amplifier and headphones all the time anyway.
If you got any recs for that, that would be helpful, I also prioritise colour correctness over response time as I really don't play games all that often in fact I'm not even running windows on this desktop as my main OS, only as a small dualboot for a couple of games (Skyrim, Fallout 3 and Fallout NV) I don't play any other games, but it's nice to have to option too when I get really bored.