First Gaming PC Build! Want Suggestions

For advice on builds, better /r/buildapc.

If you dont know the difference, than dont tell people to get it when they are looking for suggestions.

DDR3-1600 is just fine for gaming. If he can get a higher rated ram for the same or similar price, then great, but dont drop an extra 20+ for an extra 2nano seconds of loading.

Even worse is suggesting OP get a DDR4 mobo and ram set an a 60+ additional cost for little extra benefit that could easily have been put into a graphics card or SSD.

Something like this? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Wz6r8d

Exactly what I would say. Go for a 750W one. Plus I can't see the point in buying a liquid cooler unless you are going to overclock and if you will, you definitely need a higher power PSU

I think it's more than enough for this build... But then again I could be wrong... As i don't really know how to calculate the usage.
370 watts(cpu 88 Watts + gpu 250 Watts, made a little more, as overcloking) for cup+gpu max, so I think this power supply should be fine.
But maybe you should upgrade the power supply for future purposes.

0.15 Voltage more, it will hurt in the long term, :D

G.Skill...

might as well throw a monkey wrench in here concerning RAM..

Everyone knows about memory speed, timings, voltage, and channel interleave. These are the characteristics the industry wants the consumer to keep their focus on. Unfortunately, there's a dirty trick being played in the market right now on 4GB DIMM's surrounding a lesser known characteristic of memory performance; Rank Interleave.

Rank interleave, is another form of interleave, and can have a noteworthy effect on memory access performance, as it allows the memory controller to skip the waiting minimum cycle delay before initiating an operation on one rank, and begin writing or reading from a different rank in the interim. The effect of rank interleave, in terms of system performance, like any other single memory system memory characteristic, isn't massive, but is up to ~10% in some workloads (roughly equivalent to overclocking the memory from 1600MT/s to 2400MT/s on haswell), and based on my testing, gaming workloads are likely to fall into the category that is effected by rank interleave somewhat heavily, as these workloads have active data sets that don't fit within CPU caching.

Used to be, that almost all 4GB DIMM's were configured dual rank with the exception of very basic "value series" DIMM's configured with 4-bit wide components, so if you bought a 2 X 4GB kit, you would almost always have BOTH channel and rank interleave, "guaranteed" unless you bought the most basic "value" kits. Over the years, as the cost of higher density DDR3 chips came down, it became more cost effective to build 4GB DIMMs from the same component density being used to build 8GB DIMM's. This has resulted in a large number of 4GB DIMM's being silently transitioned to single rank configurations made up of 8 X 8-bit wide components. Thus, kits that used to be "performance class" memory, have been silently downgraded...

Unfortunately, G.Skill is one of the biggest offenders of this silent practice in recent years. It's actually bordering on fraud, as they submitted samples to reviewers configured dual rank years ago, and are now selling kits from the same "series" and in some cases, even with the same model numbers, configured single instead of dual rank.

I know that a lot of the Ripjaw X series and Ares series have been converted over to single rank to cut costs... Not sure about the Sniper series... It would be great if it were dual rank, as that would be an awesome performing kit, if not, it will be no better than a Ballistix Sport kit at 1600MT/s. Does the performance difference matter? Not much from a tangible/practical sense, but if you're going to be engaging in performance tuning because you are interested in trying your hand at it, you may be scratching your head as to why some of your performance numbers are coming up a few percentage points shy of other similar builds, and that could lead to some disgruntled feelings. (I would know, I've been there).

That brings me to a final point... At this time, its very hard to distinguish what is what. The ONLY company who has been very forthcoming about the component configuration of their consumer RAM is Kingston. Their data sheets clearly state the component configuration and rank configuration of all DIMM's they sell. Sadly, their 4GB DIMM's are all single rank right now... too bad, but at least they are being honest in this department (unlike their SSD department... eek).

Another company that has a fairly simple rule of thumb to follow is Crucial. If its DDR3 and has the name "Ballistix" on it, its a dual rank DIMM. Pretty simple. It was in fact, a very inexpensive Ballistix Sport kit running at 1600-9 that I found out-performing a Ripjaw X kit (that I paid about $20 more for at the time) running at 2133-9 in some workloads... Baffled, I began digging.. low and behold, single rank "fake" performance class memory.

Another way to guarantee to get 2 ranks installed per channel of your memory controller.. Buy a 2 X 8GB kit ;) . 8GB DDR3 DIMM's are all dual rank.

I change something, http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Wz6r8d

i7 vs i5 in gaming is about a 1-5% performance improvement. An extra 100+ dollars better spent on almost anything else for gaming.

If you have the money then you might as well go with the i7 though. Future proofing for games down the road is always advisable and the increased performance on more cpu-reliant games, such as ARMA 3, makes it well worth the investment.

i7 is best for video editing and work stuff. Not worth it.

Nvidia is going to bundle the newest Metal Gear game if you wait a bit.

800W or 900W, seems like an overkill. As you don't know, if he will want sli.

I upgrade the power supply to 750w and change some stuff
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Wz6r8d

NO THEY HAVEN'T!!!

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

i put 750w Power supply :D
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Wz6r8d

It's not like you are going to run every game on your SSD. It's basically for your OS, some programs and 2-3 games you regularly play. If you wanna use SSD to install games you'll need to install and uninstall games down the road. The only possible way to do otherwise would be to get a 1TB one but it's price is... well I'll let you find that yourself :D

:D http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Wz6r8d

Thanks mate :)

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