So I just finished my masters degree last week. My wife decided that this was enough to allow me to build myself a new gaming pc. My old one was still fast (Fx6300, HD 7870) but I wanted something new for all the games coming out soon.
Oh and I think she wanted the old one so she could play the sims 4 better.
Here is what I got:
Core i5-4590
R9 290x
8gb DDR3
256gb Samsung Evo SSD
1tb Western Digital HD
This thing is awesome! I cant wait for Arkham Knight to come out!
I've been building rigs with the same specs (no add-on graphics though) and have found it all comes down to having a SSD.
now that I/O bottleneck is gone even i3's and 4gig's RAM is more than fine.
and Congrats on the Masters, it is no small effort.
I started to upgrade my Bachelor to a Masters a while ago (in computing) and found it too disconnected to the 'real world', got disillusioned and dropped it.
Well done and congratulations on your Masters Degree...............you must be very pleased with your self sounds like your Wife is also pleased and proud of your efforts.
On the Geek front.............the new PC sounds great............enjoy