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stinkeyspaz816

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Ok so i have wanting to build a gaming rig from scratch for a while and now i have the resources to do it. However i am stuck on gpu because i do not know too much about them and would really like some help. my gaming laptop currently uses nividia and im quite partial to it. heres my rig so far, im looking for gpu suggestions and any problems you care to point out. im thinking that i ill get a evga 700 series but i really dont know what im doing.

Power supply- CORSAIR Gaming Series GS800 800W ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply
Motherboard-GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD4H LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Case-COOLER MASTER HAF X
First hdd - Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ 1TB 10000 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Second hdd – SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Ram-G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM
Cpu-Intel Core i5-4670 Haswell 3.4GHz LGA 1150 84W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics BX80646I54670
Video card-
 
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Depending upon your budget you can get GTX 770 or GTX 780 or GTX 780Ti, all are fine cards.

Every component looks good and compatible, except the MB, you can go for a normal MB, rather than a "Z" board. "Z" boards are for OC, and your CPU is a locked one with a non "K" version. You can go with i5-4670K with a few more $$. I think the difference will be of $10.

And for HDD you can choose this :

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $58.99
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-22 15:34 EST-0500)
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Depending upon your budget you can get GTX 770 or GTX 780 or GTX 780Ti, all are fine cards.

Every component looks good and compatible, except the MB, you can go for a normal MB, rather than a "Z" board. "Z" boards are for OC, and your CPU is a locked one with a non "K" version. You can go with i5-4670K with a few more $$. I think the difference will be of $10.

And for HDD you can choose this :

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $58.99
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-22 15:34 EST-0500)
 
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Just get a H87 since you are not overclocking, it would probably save you some, not that much though. For this PC, seems like you have a good investment, I would say go for a GTX 770 this black friday or R9 290. You could even grab a GTX 780/ R9 290X if it fits in your budget. For cheaper cards, GTX 760 is probably the better ones in that range. Any lower, it would not justify buying SSD and VelociRaptor HDD.

On that note, I usually like to keep my option open, so I would suggest shelling out a couple bucks for the unlocked processor. Who knows, maybe you want to OC then but too late.

Since you have an SSD, I doubt a 10k RPM HDD is going to change anything, rather invest into something with larger capacitance or cheaper one.
 
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From the looks of your build parts so far a GTX 770 would fit in nicely, and if your budget allows then a GTX 780 or even GTX 780Ti which again depends totally on your budget. The 770 will get you to playing most games on the highest settings and 1920x1080 resolution where the other two cards will do all games and just more FPS.

I would also go with the i5-4670k model since it is an unlocked CPU and would allow for some good overclocking. Your motherboard does have the slots available for a second video card later on for SLI if you were to choose to do that.
 
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A GTX 760 will get you a playable framerate on all games on the highest setting even. Anything above a 760 and you will just gain more framerates over 30fps and it will keep you above 30 for a long time to come.
 
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