Need Advice for Building a Gaming PC $1500 Budget

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SebaTroche

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I am trying to build my first gaming PC. I have around $1500 for budget. Any advice would be highly helpful.

I am looking for advice on some things in particular:
1. Incompatibilities between my current components
2. If one or more components are overkill/underpowered compared to the rest
3. If all the components would fit in the case
4. Too much/little/incorrect power supply

My current build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1xead

Thanks!
 
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houldendub

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Build looks pretty damn good to me!

Only slight thing, and this only if you haven't seen one / owned one, full-size towers are freaking MASSIVE. A good mid-tower would do you just fine, and save you a bit of cash in the process.
 
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haynesr07

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You have a nice build here, seems like you've done some research or got extremely lucky on the parts as I do not have to correct anything really. I'm hoping it's not the latter lol.

But what the guy above me said about full towers is BS. That's a matter of opinion. I have a 932 advanced, and my tower really isn't that big. The HAF X is an "OK" case, but I would advise the 650D from Corsair. That thing is quite big compared to other mid-towers. You have to take that huge 770 into consideration and you have plenty of room in either I'm sure. I fit my 11" GTX260 in my 932 so I'm sure the HAF X is fine for that one.

Although your 840 doesn't mention Pro or Evo, but I like the new Evo's and the software they come with. But either SSD is great.
 
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SebaTroche

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Thanks for your quick answer mate!, I just put the full tower case for good cooling and the huge space, but a mid tower will be good too. I have no problem on spending 200$ in a case but if you think it is too huge I will be thinking probably on a "CM HAF 912 - Mid Tower Computer Case with High Airflow" at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BCXF6O4/ref=s9_al_bw_g147_ir03

Anyways thanks for your answer. Any advice would be highly helpful.
 
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houldendub

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Not really an opinion. A blue car is still blue. A big tower is still a big tower. Especially for a simple system like this. Why spend the extra cash on all that space for a single GPU air-cooler build? If Seba wanted to fit in a nice water cooling solution and that I could understand. But going big for the sake of it? No reason. It's probably even more pointless than buying a 4x4 to drive around the city in.

Or alternatively why not go for a really nice mid-tower? You'd never be wanting more space or struggling to fit things in with the build that Seba is potentially going for, and you'd get a much more premium case for it.
 
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SebaTroche

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Thanks for your answer!
I know that here is not explainet if the ssd is PRO or EVO, but i was seeing the 840 PRO at amazon and it was around 90$
I don't know too much about the SSDs, I just looked at the price. Here it is:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009NHAF06/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A23NVCSO4PYH3S


About the case I am thinking that the 650D is a good case, but I don't know why I like more the full tower cases, I think they are more future-proofing, and more impressive at first sight, that is all
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Obsidian-Series-Computer-CC650DW-1/dp/B004UE1W9K
 
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SebaTroche

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Yes, I see that is a simple sistem. I just take the HAF X because I'm probably in a not too far-off future taking a water cooling (I know that Haswell's CPUs doesn't overclock too much like Ivy does) or doing a Dual 770's SLI (That's why iI take a 750W PSU), I don't know, I just mean future-proofing and not buying a case anymore.

About the price, the HAF X is 199$, its about just 30$ more expensive that a mid tower case. Thanks for your opinion, I'm nothing but a NOOB and I post my build for taking your opinions. Thaks to you all again!
 
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SebaTroche

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Thanks for your reply, byogamingpc!
I was not aware that in amazon the 750W and the 850W PSU were at the same 119$ price lol

The 212 EVO is a good cooler for the money, it will help me to take my 4670k to stable 4.0Ghz overclock. It's just about 35$

I just saw a HAF X (full-tower) review, and realized that it is about a 3 years old design. I think that i'll going by the Corsair 650D

Anyway guys, thanks for your taking your time and your replies!. Any other answer is welcome!
 
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770 is an awesome card. 780 is an awesomer card, but you have to decide if the price to performance is worth it!

Personally I've got two 760s. At £400 (fitting awkwardly between the 770 and 780 price-wise), they offer performance that betters a Titan by a good margin. I could recommend two of those until the cows come home but if you're only interested in a single card, there's no point!

Also, I'd just get a 780 for that beautiful cooling solution. I mean that thing is gorgeous.

If you can afford a 780 though, go for it. Overclocked it'll give you a few more frames than a Titan, they really are amazing pieces of kit.
 
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Well yeah, price per performance is much better with the 770s, but the performance is of course better (who am I schooling you?)

But that's kinda the thing, if it's just performance he's after surely it's better to go for the 780 if the funds aren't an issue?

What about a 7970? Great performance at an astonishing price, but maybe a wasted investment with 9970s potentially showing up soon?
 
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I personally like the 770 for the price as I think the 770 is expensive in itself.

I wouldn't buy a 7970 honestly. I was looking at some benchmarks on techpowerup, and actually the GIGABYTE 760 2gb out-performs it on a few games which is kind of pathetic.

I returned my EVGA 760, because I had gotten a damaged product, so I have been debating on what to purchase. I'm going to get a GIGABYTE 760 2gb, but what I am going to do is wait for these new AMD GPu's to release just in case. In the meantime, I'm doing my car stereo.
 
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