Semi-Decent Build List?

Fueur

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Jul 1, 2013
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So, I've worked my *** off gathering money since I'm only 16 and I'm going to invest in a good gaming PC.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1ciiB

I already know that someone is going to say that SLI is trouble... No it's not. I'm coming from 5770 Crossfire and the issues with it didn't bother me at all. Plus, a friend of mine gave me his 650 Ti Boost and I'm stepping it up (warranties transferred), so basically I'm getting one 760 for free. I'm not taking these two 760s from the list, since I'm not paying 150 and 400 for 2 770s.

The CPU is overkill since I won't be doing anything really intensive, but I might dabble a bit later on in video encoding.

I got the cooler a long time ago, when I first started researching since I only had so much money then. Plan to upgrade to a high end Phanteks later.

I don't know much about the reliability of the motherboard, nor some of the features, however the reviews say that it's good. Any good ones for around that price?

Already have the RAM and I might add 8 more GB if I decide to encode video and MAYBE 3D modeling.

I know people with that HD and I want one too, since it's a good price. I DON'T want an SSD unless a good one goes on sale for cheap, since I don't care about booting times and game loading time.

I've already bought the Phantom and I'm probably going to replace all of the fans with better ones.

Disk Drive, I already have.

Already ordered Windows 7.

Already have MX-4.

I'm getting the HX850 because of the nice value and it gives me headroom

I only have the w2207 for a monitor now, but I'm going to get a better 1080p monitor with the possibility of adding 2 more down the road.
 

USAFRet

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Couple of solutions with that cooler:

-Put the fan on the other side, pull configuration
-Use slots 2 & 4
-Slide the fan up just a little to clear the RAM fins. It is not hardmounted (screwed on) to the fins, but rather held on by plastic clips.
 

Fueur

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Jul 1, 2013
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What do you recommend for less than $435 in the Haswell category?

Didn't pay that price for the case, sorry lol. I paid a lot less because it was lightly used. Fans work well, so does the rest of it.

I'm keeping the ram, since I got a better deal on it and I can fix that.