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DevinC

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I will post what I already own and what I plan on ordering. Even if I own it and you recommend something else feel free to put some input. :)

Case: Thermaltake Level 10 - Owned
Power Supply: XFX Pro Series XXX 850w - Owned
Hard Drives: Samsung 840 Series 120gb - Owned
Toshiba 2tb Storage
I know I should probably get a different or multiple SSD for a raid 0 array, but I'm decently happy with the drive.
Motherboard: ASUS Z87-Deluxe
CPU: Intel core i7-4770K
GPU: Trying to decide between Radeon 7950 and 7970 and which brand. Open for suggestions with reasoning. Looking to pay 250-350$.
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133

The case already has decent cool, I own a floppy drive, cd/dvd drive and blue ray drive. I'm looking for a cpu cooler as well, not really sure if I want to get into liquid or not, but I was thinking this one for now.
ARCTIC Freezer 13 CPU Cooler
 
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For once I must say. Get cheaper mobo.
Gigabyte X-D3H / UD3H are really good solid mobos for you.
It about 100 save there. Or cheaper asus.
4770k is nice chip but do you really need it? My suggestion is 4670k or xeon 1230V3 or cheaper V2 but then you need Z77 or B75 mobo. In cpu power you do not lose anything but iGPU and 100-200MHz. And this you do not notice if you do not bechmark it.

2133MHz memory same thing 1600MHz is enough. Gskill all memory I have go 200MHz by overclocking so 1866MHz will go that same 2000MHz.

7970 is good card. But my suggestion is GTX 760 or 770. Normal GTX 760 you can OC about samelevel that GTX 770 is stock. Now you can find cheap GTX 680 so look them too. They are still really fast cards even today...
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AxlFone

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For once I must say. Get cheaper mobo.
Gigabyte X-D3H / UD3H are really good solid mobos for you.
It about 100 save there. Or cheaper asus.
4770k is nice chip but do you really need it? My suggestion is 4670k or xeon 1230V3 or cheaper V2 but then you need Z77 or B75 mobo. In cpu power you do not lose anything but iGPU and 100-200MHz. And this you do not notice if you do not bechmark it.

2133MHz memory same thing 1600MHz is enough. Gskill all memory I have go 200MHz by overclocking so 1866MHz will go that same 2000MHz.

7970 is good card. But my suggestion is GTX 760 or 770. Normal GTX 760 you can OC about samelevel that GTX 770 is stock. Now you can find cheap GTX 680 so look them too. They are still really fast cards even today.

This isreally good mid price cooler. http://www.amazon.com/Thermalright-BW-Support-Socket-Driver/dp/B008YTUN38

Phanrex is bit cheaper. BeQuiet is good.. And so on..

if you want new SSD then look sandisk ultra plus 256GB is same price that samsung pro 128GB so in this matter size do matter. It is fast enough and really reliable SSD.
 
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AxlFone

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Well cheapest mobo to OC 4770k is this.
http://extremespec.net/gigabyte-ga-b85-hd3-motherboard-review-design-testing-performance/3/

I do not know how much you need to OC. But cheap mobo can do 4.6GHz.
Xeon 1230V2 and 1230V3 are same chip as the 3770 and 4770. Just cheaper.
They do not have iGPU so they are cooler. You really do not need iGPU for gaming build. Still they do have HT + 8 tread.
They are just 100MHz slower clock speed than i7 so price is like i5 but chip is i7
They are perfeckt for multitasking. But you can not OC them. Not much anyway.
Multiplyer is locked. But price.
Xeon 1230V2 http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80637e31230v2
3570k http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80637i53570k
4670k http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80646i54670k
xeon 1230V3 is bit expensive in USA so maybe best buy is xeon 1230V2

And it is lot cooler. This is with air cooler. Ant it is not so good air cooler. Just normal 20-30 $ cooler.
http://i.imgur.com/zqIhw.png
This means it is silent because it is cooler. No need for huge cpu coolerand fan combo. Look this CPU Value (CPU Mark / $Price ) chart.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1230+V2+%40+3.30GHz

OC do not give you more than 5-10 FPS more in games. So is it worth it?
Or is it better to put money on better GPU? Yhatwill give you more FPS this is sure.
Now I do not think you will buy this chip. But you trow money away.
It is your so do what ever feels best for you :) Good luck with your build :)


 
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DevinC

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It's just hard choices to make xD
So much information to retain and compare. But I'm trading my old rig to have someone purchase and directly ship the motherboard and ram. For my old system being made in 2008/2009 I thought it was a fair price since I don't use it at all. My laptop beats it in most aspects (Asus i7 g73h I think it's called). I'll probably open a separate thread to compare and reason for a gpu, but wanted a general overview here.
 
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