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G'Day mates! Nah, just kidding. Hi everyone!

I asked this question yesterday, but forgot to mention some important details.

I have 1300 (Australian) dollars to spend on a gaming PC, I already have the graphics card (780Ti), operating system (Win8) and peripherals.

I won't be overclocking, and I'm also trying to decide if I should play at 1080p, or buy a 1440p monitor, let me know what you think.

I'll mainly be playing: Planetside 2, Battlefield 4, Watch Dogs
I'll also be playing small amounts of: Titanfall, Call of Duty

Please use the Australian PCPartPicker, because when I get a US list, and change it to Australian, the price almost doubles, I cri everytiem.

Thank you for reading, any help is appreciated.
 
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DarkSable

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There you go!

Cheap, so you can afford a good quality monitor. If you can get the ASUS Swift, it's very very much worth it.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($275.00 @ Mwave Australia)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($39.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97E-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($179.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($99.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($84.00 @ Centre Com)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($63.00 @ Centre Com)
Case: BitFenix Prodigy (Black) Mini ITX Tower Case ($79.00 @ Centre Com)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($119.02 @ Mwave Australia)
Total: $937.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-02 12:59 EST+1000

Putting more money in it won't do much, it's already small, pretty good at overclocking, able to take your graphics card no problem... if I were to spend more, it would be first to get more storage, and second to get a gaming mouse and mechanical keyboard. The parts are top notch.
 
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That's fine, no need to apologise. I was just saying that last time I couldn't keep up with the replies, and this time it was another story. Sorry if I came off as complaining.
 
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No worries mate. It's hit and miss sometimes. :)

To be honest, unless you wanted to spend less money, there's not much to change from my recommendations. Some fools might tell you to get an i7, which is absolutely no better for gaming. The thing that you could do is get custom liquid cooling - you have the budget for it, and could move to a full-sized motherboard and case and overclock the heck out of everything, but unless you want to do it for the sake of doing it, it's not worth the money.
 
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Thank you. If I were to do that, what build would you recommend?
 
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I would recommend the same build that I did originally, changing the case to something much larger and the motherboard to an Asus HERO, probably.

Then we would talk about custom watercooling. Do your research before you go down that route, though, because we're talking an extra $600 at the very minimum for a fairly negligible benefit aside from being able to put your graphics card under water later and have a very quiet computer.



Also, I highly, HIGHLY dis-recommend morgan payne's builds. I mean, he's got 16GB of RAM, which is a waste of money, a closed loop liquid cooler that is more likely to fail, is noisier, and is more expensive than a big air cooler, while performing the same, and on top of that...

Both the processors in he's telling you to get in his builds are locked. Meaning he is recommending you spend a whole bunch of money on these coolers and overclocking motherboards... when you can't overclock.
 
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the reason I put non k chips because it said in his description that he did not want to OC so no k chips for the 16gb ram why not some games take a lot of ram and for the 3rd party cooler its better than the stock but is 30 dollars more so no over heating cpu's
here's a OC build http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/2sRZ99
and a none OC build http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/wr9fnQ
hopes that matches up to dark sables standards
morgan
 
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^ I missed that he didn't want to overclock - that's my bad, and I apologize.

That being said, you don't need 16GB of ram. 8GB is enough to simultaneously run battlefield 3, photoshop, AND 30 tabs in chrome. Without a page file.

As for the cooler, a stock cooler is not going to make your CPU overheat. If there were even a chance of that happening, it would not be sold with the chip, because it would be hideously expensive for the chip manufacturers to deal with lawsuits about defective products all the time. An aftermarket cooler will run cooler and quieter, yes, but isn't necessary worth the money - the stock heatsink cools a stock chip perfectly well.

No need for a z97 motherboard if you aren't overclocking, you need a 550w power supply, not a 750w one, and there have been issues with recent runs of seagate's drives.

Don't get a stick up your rear about this, please? I'm not attacking you, nor am I saying you don't know what you're doing. I'm saying that there are ways to improve the build you suggest so that the original poster gets the most optimized rig for his money... which is the entire point of, you know, forums that are designed to help solve people's problems. We're SUPPOSED to give each other critiques and explain the reasons why, so that the person asking the question can have an INFORMED answer, rather than having to pick between people's opinions without reason or counterargument.
 
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