Death penalty actually costs a lot, they even say it costs more than prisoning the person for entire life.

I'm using a CRT which can do 120 Hz at 800x600 and I need to set the refresh rate manually at the launch options, otherwise it won't use 120 Hz. -refresh/freq forces your monitor to use the refresh rate you specify (unless your monitor doesn't support it).

If you're using 4:3 resolution the FOV will be smaller than 16:9 / 16:10, making your view look like it's zoomed in which will make player models "bigger".

Don't trust CNET for CRTs refresh rates, most of the time it's bullshit.

As for CRTs for gaming, I'm currently using an CRT @ 800x600 120 Hz and it's amazing compared to my 60/75 Hz LCD, the biggest downsides I could find:
Weights A LOT and really large in size.
Power hungry bitch.
It's hard to see objects in games that are far away, especially QL (it's probably because my CRT is 17 inch).

As for the budget cooler later on get Hyper 212, it has great price/performance ratio.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£188.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£125.46 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.19 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 2GB Video Card (£154.03 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Xigmatek ASGARD PRO (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£36.49 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£64.10 @ Amazon UK)
Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired Standard Keyboard (£9.99 @ Amazon UK)
Mouse: Logitech G400 Wired Optical Mouse (£38.99 @ Amazon UK)
Other: BenQ XL2411T (£225.89)
Other: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz (£49.99)
Total: £930.52
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-06-29 16:46 BST+0100)

7850 1 GB model to 2 GB (for even cheaper)
120 Hz monitor.
Single channel memory changed to dual channel.
A cheaper keyboard (which isn't bad, mine is still nice after 2 years of use), I don't see the reason to pay more if it's not mechanical.
520W should be fine for now, but in the long run I'd rather save up some more money and buy a PSU with more power then you could just upgrade your GPU and still be good to go.

Just turn on/play the game and that's it, as far as I know you don't need to do anything special to get card drops.

Go to tf/custom/random/resource/ui/HudAmmoWeapons.res and edit xpos values of:
AmmoInClip ; AmmoInClipShadow ; AmmoInReserve ; AmmoInReserveShadow ; AmmoNoClip ; AmmoNoClipShadow.

Takes the input directly from the mouse bypassing any Windows sensitivities and stuff like that.

Why are you recommending him i7-3770K if there's a new generation equivalent?

The names were quite hard to read for me. In my opinion, I think the country flag should be near the name.

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Ninja'd

If you're not going to wait for Haswell CPUs release. I've picked CPU cooler because even at stock speeds it can reach pretty high temperatures. I would still suggest that you should overclock, it's not hard and you'll be able to get more FPS, you'd just need to change the i5-3570 to i5-3570K.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($204.17 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($139.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($69.63 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Crucial M4 256GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($199.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($88.98 @ Outlet PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 680 4GB Video Card ($539.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: NZXT Phantom 410 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($84.55 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 620W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($76.50 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($19.96 @ Outlet PC)
Monitor: Asus VG248QE 144Hz 24.0" Monitor ($266.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $1715.74
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-05-10 12:10 EDT-0400)

As for the peripherals, I don't know anything about keyboards, you might want to take a look at the forums here, I've seen some posts/threads about mechanical keyboards.
For the mouse, I haven't really seen mice with 3 buttons for quite some time right now, most of them are made with 5 buttons. I was used to 3 button mice, but when I had to make a switch to 5 button one the extra 2 buttons didn't hinder me and I actually find some use for them.
These are my favourites from seeing reviews/using them. All of these have nice sensor in them.
Zowie FK
Zowie AM
Zowie EC1/EC2
Razer DeathAdder 2013
Razer DeathAdder
Razer Abyssus
Logitech G400 (I've heard it's discontinued)
The DeathAdders build quality isn't that good, but mine has been going pretty strong for ~2 years already.

Mouse pads, from what I've gathered these are the ones that are mostly used:
Razer Goliathus (I'm using this one myself, it's pretty nice and it's quite sturdy, I've washed it a few times and it always comes out clean, just like when I bought it.
PureTrak Talent
Steelseries QCK

"Once I build one that can handle it I do plan on branching out and playing games that have been in my steam inventory forever"

You got me a little wrong here, that was just an example of a post.