A good $1500 gaming PC build?

HAHArceus

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I feel lazy and don't want to make a well thought out build. If you want to, you can do it for me. Just keep in minds that the price includes an operating system, decent gaming peripherals, and a monitor.
 
A lazily-designed build as per lazily requested:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ Outlet PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($63.00 @ Newegg)
Storage: Mushkin Chronos Deluxe MX 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($104.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($67.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card ($395.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($75.98 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ Outlet PC)
Monitor: Asus VS238H-P 23.0" Monitor ($137.99 @ NCIX US)
Keyboard: Microsoft SIDEWINDER X4 Wired Gaming Keyboard ($47.99 @ Newegg)
Mouse: Razer DeathAdder Wired Laser Mouse ($59.99 @ Microcenter)
Total: $1510.82
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-06-19 22:55 EDT-0400)
 


+1 Hilarious, the stuff is 10 years old. Those $2500 computers would cost 3100 today with inflation. Sad, a computer today costing 3100 would be at least 10 times faster.
 


Very nice but I cannot recommend the ASRock Extreme 4's any more. The seem to suffer from thin motherboards.
The extreme 6's and up are fine though.
 


Fair enough. An Extreme6 would only add $20 to the price tag, so I would certainly consider it worthwhile. I was just too lazy to change it. :p
 

l89

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+1 for the build
 

PlanarX999

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Just edit some of Jack Revenant build, and finally i came with better build, but this not my work, it started with him. +1 for Jack Revenant. I change Motherboard, CPU Cooler, RAM sticks and Mice

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Antec KUHLER H2O 920 110.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme6 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($174.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Mushkin Chronos Deluxe MX 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($104.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card ($395.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($75.98 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ Outlet PC)
Monitor: Asus VS238H-P 23.0" Monitor ($137.99 @ NCIX US)
Keyboard: Microsoft SIDEWINDER X4 Wired Gaming Keyboard ($47.99 @ Newegg)
Mouse: Corsair Vengeance M65 Wired Laser Mouse ($54.99 @ Microcenter)
Total: $1502.83
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-06-20 04:58 EDT-0400)
 


Stellar find on that combo, Planar. I'd recommend a slight tweak, though:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($78.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme6 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($174.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($58.50 @ Newegg)
Storage: Mushkin Chronos Deluxe MX 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($104.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card ($395.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($75.98 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ Outlet PC)
Monitor: Asus VS238H-P 23.0" Monitor ($137.99 @ NCIX US)
Keyboard: Microsoft SIDEWINDER X4 Wired Gaming Keyboard ($47.99 @ Newegg)
Mouse: Corsair Vengeance M65 Wired Laser Mouse ($54.99 @ Microcenter)
Total: $1510.34
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-06-20 05:06 EDT-0400)
 

PlanarX999

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Well, i think you right, its seem to be better though, i must admit, but the ram stick in my build, which prior by you, contain Ripjaw X series 1333MHz at CL7 & 1.5v (kind of waste money), overclock seem to be better, i think, would you compare both and tell me which is better, and better find which better.
 


I tend to think that CL9 and 1600mhz is pretty fine. You could probably get more performance by overclocking the Ripjaws X, but I don't think it would be very worthwhile. That said, I'm not a memory expert, so I could be wrong. I've never gone wrong with CL9/1600mhz, however.
 


If anything, thank you. That combo was an absolutely excellent find.