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With a 760 you're not going to max out everything at 1080p (considering you're on a 22" screen, I suppose that's your target), but with some tweaking you'll manage to get high details at decent framerates. A 750w is overkill for it tho, I'd get a 600w with a 760 for having enough power and leave some headroom.

If you want to save some extra money, I'd get a LiteOn drive, which works well enough and is incredibly cheap.

With the saved money and a little extra maybe, I'd get an aftermarket cooler for the cpu and overclock it a bit. Consider switching to low profile rams if you're willing to go this way.

On the other hand, if you don't give a damn about overclocking like I do, get the non-k version and a baseline aftermarket cooler...
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- What exactly is your objective? maxed-out gaming? Casual gaming? Editing? Streaming?
- Do you have any prototype build you came up yourself as a starting point?
- What is your budget?
- What resolution are you going to be playing at?
- Do you need to buy an OS for your new rig?

Anyone here will need more info about your needs before giving you some feedback... It seems like you've half-written this post ;D
 
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I am attempting my first pc building was wondering if the components I put together would be relatively good for gaming. I want to try to play most games on high or ultra as most people do. My budget was in the range of 1000-1100 with speakers and monitor included.This is what I came up with:

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-HD3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX760 SuperClocked w/EVGA ACX Cooler 2GB
Hard-drive: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s
Ram: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR3 1600 MT/s
Case: Corsair Carbide Series Black 300R Mid-Tower Computer Case
Power Supply: Corsair CX750 Builder Series ATX 80 PLUS
Optical Drive: Asus 24x DVD-RW
Monitor: ASUS VS228H-P 22-Inch Full-HD
Speakers: Logitech Z313 Speaker System

Is this a good setup? I don't care if the speakers aren't terribly good either I just wanted something decent. Any help or tips would be appreciated.
 
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I am attempting my first pc building was wondering if the components I put together would be relatively good for gaming. I want to try to play most games on high or ultra as most people do. My budget was in the range of 1000-1100 with speakers and monitor included.This is what I came up with:

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-HD3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX760 SuperClocked w/EVGA ACX Cooler 2GB
Hard-drive: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s
Ram: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR3 1600 MT/s
Case: Corsair Carbide Series Black 300R Mid-Tower Computer Case
Power Supply: Corsair CX750 Builder Series ATX 80 PLUS
Optical Drive: Asus 24x DVD-RW
Monitor: ASUS VS228H-P 22-Inch Full-HD
Speakers: Logitech Z313 Speaker System

Is this a good setup? I don't care if the speakers aren't terribly good either I just wanted something decent. I want to casual game but be able to upgrade later if I want to. Any help or tips would be appreciated.

 
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get the new devils canyon i5, the new thermal paste on the internal heat spreader is supposed to be amazing and overclock really really well. If you dont care to overclock ditch the "k" version of the CPU and save like 25$ bucks.
 
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With a 760 you're not going to max out everything at 1080p (considering you're on a 22" screen, I suppose that's your target), but with some tweaking you'll manage to get high details at decent framerates. A 750w is overkill for it tho, I'd get a 600w with a 760 for having enough power and leave some headroom.

If you want to save some extra money, I'd get a LiteOn drive, which works well enough and is incredibly cheap.

With the saved money and a little extra maybe, I'd get an aftermarket cooler for the cpu and overclock it a bit. Consider switching to low profile rams if you're willing to go this way.

On the other hand, if you don't give a damn about overclocking like I do, get the non-k version and a baseline aftermarket cooler. Ditch the saved money into a 770 and a 650w PSU.
 
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would it be more beneficial for me to buy a EVGA GeForce GTX 770 Graphics Card with ACX Cooler or an i7 3770k to help boost my performance? Or do you think it's perrty good for the price I have now? And should I get a smaller screen size than aswell?
 
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for gaming the 770 would help much much more than the i7 would.
 
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If you're into gaming, what you're looking for is a good GPU set-up usually. That means having a powerful high-tier GPU (these days, it's 280x/290/290x for AMD or 770/780/780Ti for NVidia) and the rest of the hardware good enough to support it. Most likely, on single-GPU systems, an i5 and 8GB of RAM (CL9 1600Mhz), a good drive and a decent motherboard will last you between 2 and 4 years with a GPU of the kind stated above, depending on your resolution, on how much you're willing to sacrifice detail for framerate and on how technology evolves.

Anything higher usually starts going into more particular needs, like video/image editing, 4k or 3D gaming, 120Hz+ gaming, or ultimately Multi-monitor systems. In that case, an i7 might help more than an overclocked i5, but you'd also need a Crossfire/SLI system to be actually able to run all that.

So yeah, If you want some future-proofing for your single-GPU rig, a 770 will help WAY more than a i7 would.

Also, if you're not into PhysX, or any of all that silly useless eye-candy NVidia likes to put in every game they get their hands on anyway, I'd consider an ATI GPU. A 290 (non-x) would run close to a 780 for at least 50$ less, depending on partner brand and the place you're buying it off to. Mind that, if you're buying a 290, you're going to need that 750w PSU although...
 
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