Some help with building a new PC required

Mutetion · Jan 22, 2014

Ill be buying the parts the start if new week probably and as this is my first time making one I would love to hear some more experianced thoughts and ideas.

The build will be used for gaming mainly, hopefully for the next 3-4 yaers.

The parts ive set my eyes on are:
ASUS M5A97 EVO Motherboard
AMD FX-8350 CPU
Sapphire R9 270x OC with 2gb or maybe 4gb DDR5 GPU
Corsair CX 750 watts PSU
Corsair Vengeance 1600hz 4x4gb ram
Seagate Barracuda 2TB Desktop HDD 7200rpm

All seamed to have great price/performance. If i get the 4gb DDR5 R9 I would be open to buying another one in the future for a crossfire.

The things that worry me building are:
What case should I pick that can fit this?
I have no idea of cooling.
Are the parts going to work together?
If in future i go crossfire with 2x270s would the power supply be enough.

Planning on going with 1080p single monitor at start and if i get the 4gb 270x maybe in the near months adding another one + extra monitor.
Im not a fan of overclocking things myself but Im not again factory OC.

smorizio · Jan 22, 2014

with amd fx line and mb read up on that the fx line is a dead line now. a lot of tech web pages have said amd is pulling out of the high end cpu and moving into apu with muilt cores.
http://www.techpowerup.com/195355/vishera-end-of-the-line-for-amd-fx-cpus-roadmap.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20131209231050_AMD_We_Are_Not_EOL_ing_FX_Line_of_Microprocessors.html
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/83803-end-of-the-line-for-amd-fx-processors-update/
http://techreport.com/news/25658/amd-fx-family-wont-get-a-steamroller-update-next-year
http://www.gamersnexus.net/news/1240-future-of-amd-cpus-fx-not-eol
one thing to point out that in the last link is ddr-4 ram. right now there no chipset to support it..it just started to come out for servers. for gaming system I wuld not lk at ddr-4 ram mb for 6 or 7 months after main stream motherboard chipset started to use it. I got burnt once with intel p35 mb chipset and 1066 ram. intel said the chipset was fine for that speed but was not. to get the motherboard to run right had to have the ram vendor replace it with 800 speed ram.
with intel you have a small resfresh of haswell and then the newer 9x chipsets latter this year and then in april 2015 you have another newer intel cpu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_%28microarchitecture%29
and if the leaks are right another motherboard pin slot.

Mutetion · Jan 22, 2014

smorizio :

with amd fx line and mb read up on that the fx line is a dead line now. a lot of tech web pages have said amd is pulling out of the high end cpu and moving into apu with muilt cores.
http://www.techpowerup.com/195355/vishera-end-of-the-line-for-amd-fx-cpus-roadmap.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20131209231050_AMD_We_Are_Not_EOL_ing_FX_Line_of_Microprocessors.html
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/83803-end-of-the-line-for-amd-fx-processors-update/
http://techreport.com/news/25658/amd-fx-family-wont-get-a-steamroller-update-next-year
http://www.gamersnexus.net/news/1240-future-of-amd-cpus-fx-not-eol
one thing to point out that in the last link is ddr-4 ram. right now there no chipset to support it..it just started to come out for servers. for gaming system I wuld not lk at ddr-4 ram mb for 6 or 7 months after main stream motherboard chipset started to use it. I got burnt once with intel p35 mb chipset and 1066 ram. intel said the chipset was fine for that speed but was not. to get the motherboard to run right had to have the ram vendor replace it with 800 speed ram.
with intel you have a small resfresh of haswell and then the newer 9x chipsets latter this year and then in april 2015 you have another newer intel cpu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_%28microarchitecture%29
and if the leaks are right another motherboard pin slot.

Thanks for that information. Really made me think but now as I look back at my parts a thought has risen in my head - this set up has a lifespan of 3 years before intel rolls out the new guns. It may not be really efficient but Im oki with buying a new pc in 3 years.

smorizio · Jan 22, 2014

any of the amd 8xxx or intel i5 will last your three or four years for a gaming cpu. just make you match it to a fast gpu. in a few weeks nvidia is dropping there newer maxwell gpus.

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