I think the pc build is good, except you might want to upgrade your ram to 16 Gb, it will be much better for a few bucks. Everything looks soild. i have a gaming pc that was $2500.00 I have 32 gb ram, Nivdia gtx titan, and a Nivdia gtx 980 ti. I-7 5k extreme edition, and a sick tower. I buildt it my self and I'm getting windows ten for free you prob should have seen the little windows tab at the bottom of you r pc.I run crysis 4 at 60fps ultra, with a water cooling fan!awesomeXD. For a college pc? what about the windows surface 3 pro? its a tablet/ pc with i-5 and all a student need from word doc. powerpoint etc... pretty small and fast ( cheaper the apple). Comes down to your choice, not mine. hope this helped;)