Budgeting and Upgrade path

[thehidecheck]

I'm on a students budget, regardless, I'm going to limit myself only to the most high end components. I have enough money banked for a more then modest ivy bridge-kepler system, but by my figureings, I'm gonna come up short on purchaseing ssd's, peripherals(keyboard, mouse, headset), a 120Hz monitor, and a liquid cooling loop. That in mind, I have to prioritize those 4 things in order of importance, so I know what to buy first, and possibly months later(depending on the price of ramen noodles), what to buy last. It's not that I will be without a monitor or peripherals if I do not buy them first, I'll just be forced to use stuff from my old rig.

So would it look something like this...

ssd>peripherals>monitor>liquid cooling

or

peripherals>ssd>liquid cooling>monitor

Ya, this is def an opinion question, I just want to hear yours.

Specifically, though I dont think it matters, prolly aiming towards 2x120gb ssd's in raid 0, corsair m90 k90 and vengeance 1500, asus vg278h 27", and a custom cpu+gpu loop. I really don't want to compromise on quality, I am a rather patient person.

 

[I Hunta x]

If you format windows fairly often peripherals first as it wont matter to much as you will have to reinstall windows to put windows on the SSD, if you hate having to format windows and start again ssd first so you wont have to do it again later.

OR be like me and just ignore ssd completely for now, SSD caching with a 1/2tb fast mechanical dive > an ssd imo, an ssd will make relatively little difference to a gaming machine unless you play like 2-3 games that you want to load a few seconds faster (useless for MP games as you have to wait for round start anyway in 90% of them)