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bpowder

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Hey guys, i just completed my new setup and i need your help if all this things will work well with eachother, if i should change something (+- in the same price) or whatever you think about it.

I will use it mostly for gaming, sometimes to work with adobe premiere/ae and so on, i just want a PC which i wont change for a long time.

setup :

Cooler Master Elite 430 Midi Tower Black
Gigabyte GA-Z87M-D3H, Socket-1150
Intel Core i5-4670 Processor (Haswell)
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1600MHz 8GB (2x 4GB)
Seagate Barracuda® 1TB SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3.0), 64MB Cache, 7200RPM, 3.5"
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 2GB PhysX CUDA
Corsair TX 650W PSU
Samsung DVD Writer, SH-224DB

i don't really know what GPU should i take, i dunno which company should i trust most, so i will just list those which i was thinking of, so maybe you can tell me which one wil fit best.
so it's the one i listed already, and also :

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 670 2GB PhysX CUDA
Gainward GeForce GTX 760 2GB PhysX CUDA
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 2GB PhysX CUDA (much more cheaper)

^ every of those is cheaper than Asus.

This is my first post here so forgive me if i didn't follow some rules, hope you will help me !

 
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techbaddie

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Everything looks good, although I would get a SSD (128-250 Gb) and maybe a 500 Gb instead just 1 TB. A SSD will greatly improve the speeds on your pc.

Asus makes a great GPU, no need to change.

 
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thanks guys. i dont really have much more money, and 500 gb hdd seems to be in the same price as 1TB. If i get SSD to have only system on it, will it be good? what u think about this ?

Corsair SSD Nova Series 2, 30GB
SATA2, 2.5", 280MB/250MB/s read/write

or it is to weak that it's not worth spending money on ?
 
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With an SSD that size you can really only expect to use it as a boot device. Which means that you're paying for very low boot times, and if that's worth $60 to you, then by all means go for it. I rarely can justify buying an SSD, especially if you're on a budget. The money would be better spent on the GPU, performance-wise.

If budget is not an option, then by all means get an SSD. But go for at least a 128 GB SSD (The idea is to put the OS and the programs you use a lot onto the SSD, while you put libraries and non-critical programs on the HDD. You want a larger SSD because the SSD slows down as it gets full.)
SSDs are incredible, but they're rarely worth the extra money. Especially if the goal is to game.

I hope that helps with your decision!

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ok thanks a lot!
so now i just need someone to tell me what SSD should i get, for as low price as possible (30/60 GB is all i need i think, or?)

btw any of you knows how this cooler master elite 430 is doing with a dust?
 
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This SSD is on sale for an awesome price right now. It's only slightly more expensive than the Corsair Nova Series 2. It's also faster and 4 times larger.

If you're buying soon, I'd go with this one.

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If your budget is short, you could trim a bit off the price-tag and get this motherboard instead.

However, if you wanted to further decrease price, go with the i5-3570k and this motherboard.
The performance hit would be negligible and you would save $70-80 dollars.

(If someone sees something wrong with my logic, please tell me, because I don't see any downside to switching to that processor and motherboard.)

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Sorry if my post was unclear. The first motherboard I linked replaces the one that would fit with your current build. 1150 socket for your Haswell processor.

The CPU and second motherboard I linked are both LGA 1155, and save you $70 for no hit on performance.

That extra $70-80 would get you enough for the Adata SSD I linked. If you bought it now, with the build, setting up your computer would be easier. If you decided to buy one later, you would have to install Windows onto the SSD, set the SSD as the boot device and delete the OS from the HDD.

Again, sorry for the unclear post.

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it's all good bro :) well, thanks a lot for your fast help guys, i really appreciate !
about the Adata SSD, i will buy everything in Sweden since i live there, so i will check if they got this SSD here. I never heard about this company btw, is it good?
i was also thinking about SAMSUNG 120GB 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW, what u guys think?
 
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I updated my reply, I guess my post was just unclear.

As for Adata, I have one in the PC I'm using right now and I've never had any problems with it. It's incredibly fast and awesome :p

And what do you think of switching to the i5-3570k and ECS H61H2-A2?

It would give you room in your budget for the SSD, and as I mentioned it's simpler to start with an SSD than to integrate it in later. Just some food for thought. Either way, you can't go wrong. You've got a great build there!

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Wow. That's a nice looking SSD. The Adata still is a little cheaper(because it's on sale), and would fit in the budget if you switched the motherboard and the cpu for the ones I linked in my last post.

But, if you do have the extra room in your budget, that Samsung looks great.

 
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