Building a gaming pc under 1800$. Need help.

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Shreyas Dutt

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I am building a gaming computer for the first time so i wanted some recommendations on parts.My needs are:-
1 I will play gta 4,battlefield 3 (and battlefield 4 after its release) ,Crysis 3 and some other demanding games at high/ultra settings @1920x1080p.
2 This build must last for at least 5 years (i can upgrade any part which will be available for up to 300$).

What I have decided till now is listed below:

CPU Intel core i7 4770k haswell processor.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116901

GPU amd radeon 7990 or amd radeon 7970 crossfire
i dont know which will be good for me so please help me and if amd gpu's arenot good then please recommend me a nvidia gpu .
I will not be allowed to change my gpu in the next 4 years so please keep that in mind.

RAM Any up to 16gb.

ANY GOOD CABINET Corsair 550D ATX Mid Tower Case.

SSD and HDD HDD: 1 or 2 tb seagate barracuda 3.5 inch 7200 rpm. I also have a external 1tb hard disk so which will be
good for me ?
SSD: Sandisk Ultra Plus 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk

PSU Cooler Master Silent Pro M2 850W 80 PLUS Silver Certified ATX12V Power Supply

Monitor A good 1080p monitor for gaming.

And please tell me anything i am missing in this list. i already have a mouse ,keyboard,speaker and a ups. i will be buying this by the end of this month. and another question should i buy a fourth gen cpu or wait for intel to release 5th gen cpu?

The pc must be upgradable because i will upgrade some parts in future (upgrades upto 300$)
 
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Shreyas Dutt

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I have updated it please help me now.
 
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The games you play are more optimized for the 4th generation CPU:s(at least that's how I think it is). Here's an example build I constructed for you.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($199.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Water 2.0 Extreme 81.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($112.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($112.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($177.99 @ Mac Mall)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.96 @ Outlet PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB Video Card ($364.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Rosewill THOR V2-W ATX Full Tower Case ($127.49 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic X Series 850W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($164.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($14.98 @ Outlet PC)
Monitor: Asus VG248QE 144Hz 24.0" Monitor ($266.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $1798.33
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-10 16:56 EDT-0400)

Edit: There's no real need for 32gb as it has no performance boost over 16gb in games at all. I just wanted to hit 1800$ exact to show an example how an build at exactly 1800$ could look like.
 
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Super powerful, solid setup -

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($112.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($62.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($265.91 @ Newegg)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($259.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case ($65.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair Enthusiast 850W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($17.98 @ Outlet PC)
Monitor: Asus VN247H-P 23.6" Monitor ($178.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $1599.79
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-10 17:11 EDT-0400)
 
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You do not need 32GB of RAM for a gaming rig, and even 16GB is a bit redundant. I would do this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U9B SE2 37.9 CFM CPU Cooler ($52.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($86.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 Pro Series 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($133.13 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card ($399.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Nanoxia Deep Silence 2 ATX Mid Tower Case ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III 750W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($139.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1491.03
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-10 17:23 EDT-0400)

- 32GB of RAM is major overkill
- You don't need a 250GB SSD either
- GTX 770 in SLI will pretty much annihilate everything in its' path
- Nice quiet case
- That gives you $300 to add whatever monitor you want
 
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Which is good an amd processor or an intel processor ? (And if amd is better ,which is the best processor for gaming purpose?)
 
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please tell me is it better to sli nvidia 760 or crossfire ati radeon 7970 or just a single 7990 ?
 
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What are the differences i will see between an i7 and an i5 ? BeCause i thought of buying i7 4770k and you recommended me an i5 4670k ?
 
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For p/p double 7970 crossfire wins the challenge by ease. You could say that radeon wins in low end and high end p/p while geforce wins in mid end range. the gtx 760 and 770 are excellent cards but I would go with a better single card like the 7970 and crossfire when the price on the card drops. If anything I would go with the r9 280x since it's cheaper than the 7970 but with the same performance.

What difference an i7 and i5 have in gaming? None, period. For a expensive build like this I would recommend a more expensive CPU but the AMD 8350 is their best p/p CPU and I think intel is overpricing their i5. Since 8350 won't bottleneck you at all and is a really good OC processor(not to mention most games are now optimized for AMD like: Crysis 3 or BF4) then you won't need an i5... Hasfail overheats a lot so unless you are playing other games I wouldn't recommend an 4560k since they don't over clock to well. In order words there won't be a noticeable difference btw an 8350 and a 4560k to be worth paying for.

EDIT: What's up with people going on about the fact that I choose 32gb? Didn't you guys see that I did that on purpose just to hit 1800$ exactly(Which is his budget and it was an example build not a final one)? It's not so hard to just throw the extra 16gb out of there since you have no need for it and I did mention that in my previous post...

EDIT 2: Btw do you need an OS?
 
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First of all I dont need a OS. But you said something about rx9 280x . So when is it releasing and what i must buy rx9 gpu or 7 series gpu?
 
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It's already released(except not all editions) but not out in all stores yet, though won't be long before there all out in stores(perhaps 1-2weeks). I think a few of them are already on newegg.
 
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CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.98 @ Outlet PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ Outlet PC)
Motherboard: Asus Z87-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($130.98 @ Outlet PC)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($62.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Samsung 840 Pro Series 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($122.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($62.98 @ Outlet PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card ($639.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair 500R Black ATX Mid Tower Case ($114.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 850W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer ($15.00 @ Newegg)
Monitor: Asus VE278H 27.0" Monitor ($249.98 @ Outlet PC)
Total: $1769.85


Here is the build that I came up with.

No need for an i7 for gaming, no noticeable advantages over an i5.
The word is that Asus has some of the best boards for Haswell chipset. I can't confirm this, just from what I read on this forum.
If you want a bigger SSD, go for it.
Went with a 780, simply because it fit. Why skimp on the GPU when thats most important in a gaming rig?
I just chose that case because it's the one I use in my personal build. If you want to go with the 550D go for it, its more of just preference.
The PSU allows for expansion in the future.

Just something to go on, I'm not necessarily saying that my build is better than anyone else's.
 
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corsair h100i is optional, air cooler should be fine.4

asus hero is ok, cheaper alternatives possible
this benq monitor is realy nice, however you can get a korean 1440p monitor for similar price

well a single gpu should be fine for 1 monitor#
would start with one gpu and if you want more power, just add another or replace

~550w psu for 1 gpu



PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($97.25 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Hero ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($192.99 @ NCIX US)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($73.98 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.97 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($309.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($309.99 @ NCIX US)
Wireless Network Adapter: Rosewill RNX-N150HG 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 Wi-Fi Adapter ($13.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair RM 750W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($129.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer ($15.00 @ Newegg)
Monitor: BenQ XL2420TE 144Hz 24.0" Monitor ($329.00 @ Amazon)
Total: $1832.13
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-11 13:06 EDT-0400)
 
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Get a really good IPS-panel, they have good consistency of colors.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Water 2.0 Extreme 81.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($99.99 @ Mac Mall)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.96 @ Outlet PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($305.91 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($305.91 @ Newegg)
Case: Rosewill THOR V2-W ATX Full Tower Case ($136.96 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic X Series 850W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($164.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($18.49 @ Amazon)
Total: $1599.16
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-11 15:00 EDT-0400)
 
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