Greetings all, I'm an IT Professional that needs the criticisms of this forum.
It's been almost 10 years since I've built a desktop system (at home) and now I'm about to build TWO systems. I'd like some suggestions on if these will be good performers and would welcome any suggestions on what I might change to make them better without spending a lot of money. I've ran all these through PCPartsPicker and haven't found anything that's not compatible, but I'm more concerned with if I've created any bottlenecks anywhere on these two systems.
Thanks for taking the time to read and respond!
Build #1
Use: Wife is going back to college and wanted a desktop that will work well with multiple Office programs, music streaming, web browsing, etc. (No gaming.) She wanted something that wouldn't be a dinosaur after a year or two.
Build #2
Mid-High range gaming PC for myself. Something that's able to play WoW with at least 60 fps @ 1920x1080. mATX size (don't need all the PCI slots in an ATX). Might play other games down the road, would like to be able to play those will best graphics settings possible. Also used for general web browsing, not likely to be doing any graphics/video editing.
I *MIGHT* experiment with overclocking, so I would like some suggestions on cooling.
I've decided to stick with an i5 but wondered if I'd benefit any from an i7?
How would this build fare as a gaming machine? Any bottlenecks with the CPU?
It's been almost 10 years since I've built a desktop system (at home) and now I'm about to build TWO systems. I'd like some suggestions on if these will be good performers and would welcome any suggestions on what I might change to make them better without spending a lot of money. I've ran all these through PCPartsPicker and haven't found anything that's not compatible, but I'm more concerned with if I've created any bottlenecks anywhere on these two systems.
Thanks for taking the time to read and respond!
Build #1
Use: Wife is going back to college and wanted a desktop that will work well with multiple Office programs, music streaming, web browsing, etc. (No gaming.) She wanted something that wouldn't be a dinosaur after a year or two.
MSI Computer Corp. A88XM-E45 Motherboard
Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB Kit (2x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM - Black (HX316C10FBK2/8)
AMD Athlon Multi Core Processor AD760KWOHLBOX, 760K Richland 3.8GHz Socket FM2 100W
Rosewill CAPSTONE Series 550W 80 Plus Gold Certified ATX12V/EPS12V Power Supply CAPSTONE-550
EVGA GeForce 8400 GS 1 GB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 DVI/HDMI/VGA Graphics Card, 01G-P3-1302-LR
Windows 7 x64
Case/DVD ROM/etc.
Dual Monitor setup
Build #2
Mid-High range gaming PC for myself. Something that's able to play WoW with at least 60 fps @ 1920x1080. mATX size (don't need all the PCI slots in an ATX). Might play other games down the road, would like to be able to play those will best graphics settings possible. Also used for general web browsing, not likely to be doing any graphics/video editing.
I *MIGHT* experiment with overclocking, so I would like some suggestions on cooling.
I've decided to stick with an i5 but wondered if I'd benefit any from an i7?
How would this build fare as a gaming machine? Any bottlenecks with the CPU?
ASUS Micro ATX DDR3 2600 LGA 1150 Motherboards Z97M-PLUS
Intel Core i5-4690K Processor 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 BX80646I54690K
EVGA GeForce GTX770 SuperClocked with EVGA ACX Cooler, 2GB GDDR5 256bit, DL DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI, DP, SLI Ready Graphics Cards (02G-P4-2774-KR)
Rosewill CAPSTONE Series 750W 80 Plus Gold Certified ATX12V/EPS12V Power Supply CAPSTONE-750
Same RAM as build #1 (8 GB)
Windows 7 x64
Case/DVD ROM/etc.
Dual Monitor setup
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