Looks like a decent build, though I am a fan of NVIDIA over AMD cards. :) I don't know how good AMD cards are these days, so it's just personal preference. Your PSU should be more than sufficient. This is a great "gaming only" rig. Or for which gaming will be the primary use.
I recently upgraded myself (just waiting for the stuff to arrive) and due to my Photoshop use and other things, and the great deal I got, I went with an i7 and 32gb of RAM. Way overkill for just gaming tho.
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I third this recommendation. I too have a Nvidia and prefer it (:
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try to save a little bit more money and get i-7 4790k its Best processor for gaming and try to get Nvidia 980 or 980TI for better gaming performance... A little bit more saving can get u High Gaming pc and much for faster then your currently shown config
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i think that i7 is pointless.
better GPU is much more important.
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i7 isn't pointless by any means, but if you're going for a pure gaming machine, it's overkill. the K versions of the i5's are more than enough for gaming.
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for an i7 4790k he has to change the whole config for a OC build, the 4460 is fine for the money, from my side if we are looking for a OC build just for gaming I would say that the i5-4690k is way better (you get almost the same performance).
And the graphic card depends a lot of the screen, for a 720p a gtx 960 is enough, for a 1080p the gtx 970 runs awesome. For higher resolutions higher graphic cards (it also depends of the frecuency of the screen), or it will be just a waste of money. (sorry my bad english)
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Why don't you wait until you can buy all the parts at once? There is a chance that those parts you buy now will get cheaper when you buy your gpu and you won't have a satisfying gaming experience on this without a gpu. 6th generation of Intel i series is coming out in like a month or two, it will support DDR4 and DDR3 (the L version) so it will be a better "future proof" buy, unless they are a lot more expensive than haswell.
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Good question. The answer is that my current laptop is already failing and there is no reason to fix it (It's basically garbage). Even the integrated GPU would perform better than the one in my laptop and I'm already getting a monitor, so I have to find some use for it, hehe.
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Great suggestion. I'm just afraid of used electronics because the ones I've used have had some kind of problem.
Speaking of an old HDD...I have one but I have no idea if it works and it is only 80 GB (Well, better than nothing). I don't know, maybe it'll blow up, haha :D
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Not in Estonia. Even after GTX 970 had that 3.5+0.5 GB thing and Radeon 300 series came out, the prices didn't drop at all.
As much as I'd like to go with a 250 GB SSD, I can't. Why? I simply don't have money. I'd store the big games on a HDD (Which I'll buy later) and the OS with several programs and games on the SSD.
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I second the recommendation for 240-256GB SSD. By xmas time the price difference with a 128GB might have dropped further close to an affordable point.
I am about to buy one too, atm I'm running win8.1 on a 2TB HDD. The OS partition has Win+Office2010, autocad, other generic software (no adobe suites or anything that big) but no games (they're on a separate partition) and it's 105GB full. Soon I'll be updating to Win10 and I expect it'll eat up some more room, so I think 128GB would feel tight too soon and then I'd regret buying that size.
I'll go for 256GB, if you 'look for it to last several years' and install games on the SSD I think you should give it a good thought too.
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Then, if you can, wait. The new line of Intels will be released soon. And even though they like to abuse their huge market lead, they always drop the base price of the older ones after that. In the long run I can almost surely say that a 4690 or 4790 would last you easily 6-12 months longer, delaying the next PC upgrade.
Although, frankly, if you are such a tight budget, I would even say you'd be better off with an AMD A8 or A10. The built-in graphics are significantly better than any Intel HD, even the Iris, and they cost about as much for being a CPU+GPU, as an Intel CPU alone.
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I wouldn't spend any money until you have enough for every part you need. Who knows, by the time you are actually ready to build your machine your motherboard or some other part could have dropped in price significantly.
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Looks great, how much do you pay for the ssd?
I'd remove the ssd and bump the powersupply a lil bit, the 390 can be quite a power hungry beach :3
unless you plan to switch the powersupply later as well.
I'd switch the ssd with a mechanical drive, I have a 250gb one (as you know) and a few games are enough to fill it (right now titanfall alone takes 65 gb).
Go for it, the intel 4600 is quite nice, let's you play quite a lot of stuff if you're willing to turn details down :)
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Add at least 200W more to PSU if you have plan to get AMD card.
If not, same thing add 200W more. You want your PSU to be cool and not working at full load all the time.
I will not go into science this time and i will talk about my PC (AMD CPU 5 years old, GPU 560Ti -5 years old or so) 700W PSU and it's struggling i have no expansion cards, only 2 sticks of ram, no usb brackets or anything like that and i know it is struggling. I can go on if you want but you get my point i hope. Good luck!
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Because it will boot windows fast,it will run your applications faster,you will not lose your data when you hit end of life it will just become read only.
SSD is nice to have and surely it may not be needed but that does not mean it does not have it uses,if SSD where the norm games would load faster and such as they could program more things to take advantage of it,but it hard now because if you make everything work on SSD that needs the extra speed anyone with a mechanical hd would not load so nice.
I wish SSD where cheaper and in every system imagine a game that was programmed form the start to stream texture at more then a HHD can handle by default which is usually real world if your lucky 66mb a second,and SSD can do better then that,but if they make games by default steam more then that,mechanical drives would never keep up.If it could stream more texture the draw and view distance would be awesome.
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For system, they are not that much faster than a 7200 rpm high-end HDD, but they are still a lot better. For games and data storage, HDD is more suitable.
I have had Win8.1 on a 7200 rpm HDD, now it is on a Samsung Evo SSD. The difference is huge, especially in the long run.
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I would get 16gigs of ram the price is so cheap now and you will thanks yourself later imo better to have to much then not enough as i play GTA V with 8gigs it does not leave much left .
That GPU alone will eat about 208 watts give or take depending on load,i would maybe step it up a bit,as power supplies over time degrade from use,this way you know you will have enough later down the road even while it degrades. 700-750 watt.You never get the get the full rated watts due to some power loss and depending on if you hook it up to 120 or 220 and how efficient it is as to what you will get for true power.
That GPU is nice but may be a bit over kill unless your going to do say 4K or multi monitor,but then again it is always nice to have extra as you never know,a year form now you might decide to go dual monitor.Also if you want to play say GTA V to max it out you will need at least 4gb Vram,so really this also depends how you want to run games and at what resolution as to how much vram.And i say if you can afford it why not,you may never use the extra Vram but you will have it just in case.
Bottom line when it comes to future proof it is hard to say,that why i always say get the best you can afford now that will give you the best shot of lasting the longest.
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Yeah but it not good to mix and match ram,so if you need more later you might end up having to start from scratch as 3 months form now they might not make that ram anymore.
Just because something is good enough does not always mean it is the best option,i gave my advice because he was talking "future proof" as much as possible.and adding extra ram never hurts.
What if 2 years from now games want at least 8gigs of ram?If everyone had 16gigs games would make use of more ram and would be able to do more things as there would be more to use,either way he can still chose to do what he wants,he asked for advice i shared mine.
Also ram is at it cheapest it has been in years so might want to take advantage in case they get sick of the lower prices and decide to do something to make it higher
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Well i also took into account they do not know a lot about pc,so they might not know about matching it and all that,or that they may not want to hassle with it,and like i said ram is so cheap now it is not that much more to step up to 16gigs
And like i said he was looking to future proof as much as possible so having the extra just in case.as when i run GTA V it sucks up a little over 6gb of ram and the more i play it,the closer it gets to 8gb and causes stutter after long plays,If i had 16gb it would not an an issue if it got close to 8gb
Some things just love to eat ram and have no real reason why then other then they just do
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That board seems like overpriced "gamerrrr" trash, typical ASUS. I'd opt for a bigger SSD and more memory if you're going to keep this hardware for more than two years. Also, wait on DX12 GPUs and hope your board is still compatible then, they might pull some shit moves, never know.
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Generally there's nothing wrong with your selection. I personally would take a 500 Bequiet PSU as that's more than sufficient to power a R9 390 and CPU etc. Just don't feel you need more than 600W because people keep saying you need MORE POWER! If there's not much price difference between a 128 and 250GB SSD get the bigger one as games eat up a lot of space.
Edit: No CPU cooler? The stock ones bundled with CPUs can be annoyingly loud.
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I should recommend you a 256 SSDD, so you can have installed your OS and programs. Also if you can buy a 8gb stick, and later on you could buy a second 8gb stick and have them working better (they should be of the same speed though).
I suppose you already know it, but check Logical Increments
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Hello. I've made several topics like that, but this time I'm totally serious as I almost have the money in my pocket. I'm looking for a build that would last several years. It is mainly meant for gaming and watching movies/animes. Sadly, I could only get the base build in August/September.
Parts I would buy now:
Motherboard Asus H81-Gamer
CPU Intel i5-4460
RAM Kingston HyperX Savage (1600 Mhz, CL9, 2x4 GB sticks)
SSD Sandisk 128 GB SSD (Sorry, there's no special name)
Case Cooler Master Elite Knight 350
PSU - Sorry, couldn't find the official page. - Corsair 550W 80+New PSU Corsair VS 650W 80+
Parts I would add later, when I get a bit more money:
GPU (Would buy it in late 2015 or early 2016, after Christmas when the prices drop) MSI R9 390
HDD - Some random 1 TB HDD
What I would like to know is that are there any issues with the build? The PSU should be strong enough, at least Cooler Master PSU calculator said so. Thanks for Your time and I'll make sure to reward You with a GA after I've got the base build :)
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