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Hi everyone!
I got a sizeable bonus at work for Christmas sooo A NEW RIG!

I really hope this will works well...
What do you think?

CPU - Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell Processor

MotherBoard - MSI 7845-001R Z87-GD65 Gaming Intel Z87 Mainboard Sockel LGA 1150

GPU - ZOTAC 780

RAM - Corsair CMY8GX3M2A1600C9R

CASE - Full-Tower Aerocool GT-S

I run a Dual monitor build, a Main 24"-1920*1080 + one that is not part of the game render (a 19" 1024*1280) that I use it for Photoshop tabs, maps, TeamSpeak, serve control, manuals and such.

The PSU is one I had already, around 800W.
Overkill, yes, but it's free... so...

Thank you for your time,
Komemiute


NEW BUILD! After some precious input I finalized the build!

Now it needs a proper name...
BENNY!

:)

Details:

CASE - Thermaltake Chaser Mk-I Gotcha.

MotherBoard - ASUS Z87-Plus
Almost like the other one, MUCH CHEAPER. Same configuration, same much... a great saving. I refure to believe this to have any realistic impact on performance with charts at hand.

CPU - I7 4770K
I keep this. I know is too much now, but I'm confident that in a couple years will still grind through anything... Cheaper from the other shop.
The CPU cooler is indeed the Noctua NH D14.

GPU - Gigabyte 780 3GB VRAM DDR5 (Marginally) Better than the Zotac and cheaper too! :D

RAM - 8GB Corsair
Like the other one, different colour (matches the MoBo better :p) but also cheaper as it comes form the other shop.


There...
Ordering now...
 
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Rammy
Can you guys stop calling each other names and spouting nonsense?
It's not helpful to the OP.

Sticking to the facts...

  • ■ The OP has a GTX780 listed, so this is presumably the kind of performance and price range he is looking at, meaning the GTX770 and R9 280X aren't really worth arguing over.
    ■ There is no such thing as a 4GB GTX780, and if there was, it probably wouldn't be worth buying.
    ■ Depending on where you are in the world, the R9 290 and GTX780 are broadly similar in price if you compare them like-for-like. The USA is the main exception to this at the moment, but the OP is European (presumably Italian).
    ■ Depending on the game, and a few other factors, the R9 290 and GTX780 are broadly similar in performance.
    ■ The R9 290...
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There is nothing wrong with it, though conventional wisdom dictates that an i5 is better for a gaming build than an i7 due to the pretty heft cost difference.

You'll also need a decent CPU cooler for overclocking.

If you are going with a reference style GTX780 then the brand makes absolutely no difference as they are all identical or incredibly similar. You could go with a custom cooler one, but unlike most reference designs, the Titan cooler is pretty good so it's not all that big a deal. The overclocked cards will be faster though, you can find them up to 1Ghz+ and they won't be hugely more expensive than the base versions.

Memory isn't the biggest performance differentiator, and in fact faster memory can be slower at some tasks. 1600Mhz is fine, but you can often get 1866Mhz, CAS8/9, 1.5V kits for a similar price so it's worth seeing if there is any available.

If it was me, I'd probably want a nicer case for a high end build. If you like it, then go for it.
 
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Why don't you look at the true tests, not the ones that they run for 10 minutes, the extremely poor cooling on the 290 means that as soon as you run it for any great deal if time it'll greatly lose performance, as anyone that's done physics in school would know, heat is on of the ways that you lose performance from a electrical circuit, the graphics card is an electrical circuit and once this horribly designed card heats up it's performance drops. Not to mention it's more likely to encounter complete failure and it's running life is way shorter. And this isn't even considering once you start running dual cards you would have to run crossfire which is such a terrible piece of technology. Only reason to go for the 290 is because it's cheaper and it's cheaper for a good reason
 
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The 290 uses the same cooling as any other card depending on the manufacturer. Gigabyte have the best cooling with their windforce models, which are on the 290's. My 280x runs quite cool.


 
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Can you guys stop calling each other names and spouting nonsense?
It's not helpful to the OP.

Sticking to the facts...

  • ■ The OP has a GTX780 listed, so this is presumably the kind of performance and price range he is looking at, meaning the GTX770 and R9 280X aren't really worth arguing over.
    ■ There is no such thing as a 4GB GTX780, and if there was, it probably wouldn't be worth buying.
    ■ Depending on where you are in the world, the R9 290 and GTX780 are broadly similar in price if you compare them like-for-like. The USA is the main exception to this at the moment, but the OP is European (presumably Italian).
    ■ Depending on the game, and a few other factors, the R9 290 and GTX780 are broadly similar in performance.
    ■ The R9 290 doesn't really have an overheating problem, it has a noise problem. It's issues aren't caused by inefficiencies from temperature increases, they are caused by having a higher than standard thermal ceiling which it can easily reach fairly easily due to a pretty poor reference cooler, resulting in the card throttling itself.
    ■ A reference R9 290 running in performance mode is very unlikely to have this problem.
    ■ Custom R9 290s are unlikely to present this problem either, as well as reducing the noise levels to more sensible levels.
    ■ The OP has picked a GTX780, and given there is no significant performance or financial incentive for him to go to an R9 290, this entire argument is pointless.
    ■ The edit post button is at the bottom right
 
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Komemiute

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Thanks everyone!

Yeah, after a bit of a research I noticed this card Gigabyte GV-N780OC-3GD 2.0 that for a handful of $ more deliver sensibly more...

I thought a lot about dropping from the I7 4770k to the I5 4670k.
I'd save a chunk with little loss but I'm concerned with next future... I'd rather leave some headroom.

I was looking at this cooler for the CPU Noctua NH-D14 but I'm not sure it fits on the I7...

There's any tips about good air cooler? Not really into liquid cooling as I don't expect to OC anytime soon...
 
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Yes, the noctua 14 fits the i7, as long as you get the multi socket one, 1155/1150 and yes it's a good cooler.
 
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