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I am building a Gaming PC with my teenage son. Can folks please validate cofiguration and offer any suggestions

- ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition Motherboard
- Intel core i7 3820 Processor 3.6 Ghz without fan
- MSI R9 290X 4GD5 BF4 GDDR5 Graphic card
- Gskill SNIPER F3-12800CL9T - 12 GBSR2 RAM
- Western Digital WD20EZRX 2 TB HD
- Corsair HX 1050 80 Plus Power Supply
- 2 X Cooler Master SickleFlow Green 120 mm Cooler
- ASUS BW 16D1HT 16x Blu-Ray Burner
- Corsair Obsidian Series 750D Full Tower ATX Case
 
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I'd agree in general, however... socket 1150/1155 system would give you 90% of the performance for 50-60% of the price, and that extra 10% performance isn't going to make a fat lot of difference with the generation that tips the balance. If the difference was +30% performance then I'd tend to agree with you. My overall feeling is that you are buying an extra 6 months of usability, with a drop in settings, i'd be looking...
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for the cost of that i'd build two, one for you and one for him, and get some more 'normal' components. An i5-4670k would be plenty in the cpu department, and a 280 is perfectly adequate unless you are going beyond 1080p. That way you'll actually get to use it, the way you are now, you'll end up fighting over it. Plus you can play with each other on-line. Plus he get's to copy your build as opposed to watching or helping (there aren't many two man jobs on a build).

Not sure why you seem to have 12Gb of ram, those boards are quad channel or dual channel, tri channel was a very short lived thing.
 
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@13thmonkey - thanks for the prompt response. Looking for a config that we do nto need to upgrage for a while so picking the latest given where the games are going
@wortwortwort - got it. Any suggestion for an alternative PSU ?
@wisecracker - after spendign thsi money O don't think i can afford to adopt you :)
 
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If you're going to be sticking with the single 290X (which is plenty powerful), this calculator recommends 534W, so I'd aim for something around 600-650W. Seasonic, Corsair, XFX or Antec would be the best brands, see if you can find something cheap from them.

Even with a second R9 290X, the calculator still only recommends 763W.

Oh and if the main purpose is gaming, I'd recommend the i5-4670K (with a decent cooler).

That motherboard is also ridiculously expensive so if you aren't planning on doing something like Quad SLI or a ton of overclocking, you'd be better with something cheaper and putting the $250-300 you save into something else (maybe a SSD to use as a boot drive?)
 
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I'd agree in general, however... socket 1150/1155 system would give you 90% of the performance for 50-60% of the price, and that extra 10% performance isn't going to make a fat lot of difference with the generation that tips the balance. If the difference was +30% performance then I'd tend to agree with you. My overall feeling is that you are buying an extra 6 months of usability, with a drop in settings, i'd be looking for an extra 2-3 years to make sense for the price.

Your choice, providing you are making a concious decision with some knowledge of the implications then that's cool.
 
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+1 to the smart Monkey

That 'last' 10% (that costs 40% more) does not really extend the life of the system. It's really more for bragging and does not add a great deal (if anything) to the gaming experience.

Good recommendations --- the only thing I'll add is a question: When are the Broadwell-capabie 9-series chipset 1150 motherboards coming to market? Have those been pushed way out?

 
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Thanks all for the responses. Key takeaways for me are
- Motherboard is overengineered and need to pick one suitable for a single graphic card
- quad or dual channel RAM
- 280 on the grabpics card
- Power supply in line with the reduced config

Thanks all for the suggestions and for helping optimise the config
 
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