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cheeseyfish

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I'm looking to buy a computer on cyberpower and i customized this. I was wondering if there is anything i should change about this or if it's bad. I play games like planetside 2, league of legends, and darks souls 2 and i want to have the best graphics settings on.

It costs $1,331.00

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4820K Quad-Core 3.70 GHz 10MB Intel Smart Cache LGA2011 (All Venom OC Certified)
HDD: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)
MEMORY: 8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Quad Channel Memory [-74] (Corsair or Major Brand)
MOTHERBOARD: GIGABYTE X79-UP4 ATX w/ Ultra Durable 5, GblAN, 4 GEn3 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 1 PCI
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: XFX Double D AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Single Card)
 
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I would recommend building your own would be much cheaper and that one is based on x79 which is about to be replaced by X99 i would go for Z97 motherboard.

As an example this would run games much faster

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.98 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 EXTREME4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($128.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($76.50 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial M500 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($72.00 @ Amazon)...
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esco_sid

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I would recommend building your own would be much cheaper and that one is based on x79 which is about to be replaced by X99 i would go for Z97 motherboard.

As an example this would run games much faster

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.98 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 EXTREME4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($128.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($76.50 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial M500 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($72.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($52.91 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 780 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card ($459.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($99.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($19.98 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1295.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-03 01:01 EDT-0400
 
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Prebuilts are usually pretty stupid in my opinion. They put too much into one part and sacrifice on the other parts that matter more. Get a system with an i7, but the gpu is a gtx 750Ti sometimes. In the system you're looking at, you're getting a 4820k which is pointless to get since you can get just as much performance in gaming out of an i5. The motherboard is probably more expensive than a z87/z97 motherboard taht'll support a decent overclock. The money spent on the cpu + motherboard in some prebuilt systems could be mitigated to the gpu and get something along the lines of a r9 290 sometimes.

Basically what esco_sid did.

As for overclocking, you're probably paying people to do something that you could do yourself. Of course, you could pay someone to do if you don't want to mess with that stuff, but I mean, even at stock, the i5/i7 would do pretty well still.
 
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