Help with first gaming PC build.

McJeff

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Hi I recently decided that I was going to build my first gaming PC, after looking at lots of YouTube videos and sticking within my budget I came up with these items to use,

CPU: Intel i5 4690k

Graphics card: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 SuperClocked With ACX Cooler 2GB Video Card

Motherboard: MSI H97 Gaming 3 Intel LGA 1150 Motherboard

Ram: GEIL EVO VELOCE 8GB DDR3 (2x 4GB) DDR3 1600MHz Memory GEV38GB1600C11DC

I don't know a great deal about computer building but I thought this would be fun and would be a good set up for now and in the future.

Now for my main point, I went to my local computer hardware store for some advice and the guy in there told me that all of the above mentioned items would be obsolete in a couple of months. He described it to me that buying the above items was like buying a PS3 a month before the PS4 came out. Then I started getting confused when he was going on about DDR4 Ram and new types of chipsets and motherboards.

The question I want to ask is, will the items in the build above be useless in a couple of months or was the guy at the store just trying to sell me some over the top expensive new items?

Any help on the build and really how future proof it is would be very much appreciated.

Thanks
 
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Well it is not exactly like your guy describes it. If you want ddr4 now you will have to spend much more money than you are going to spend now. Intel mainstream cpus will start supporting ddr4 somewhere in 2015. With that said i think that the cpu choice you made is excellent for gaming. But as Alpha3031 mentioned if you get a 4690K processor you may want to overclock and that's where you will need a Z97 mobo. If you dont want to overclock just dont buy the K version and stick with the mobo you chose. So CPU-mobo-RAM, i would stick with your choices rather than purchase a 2011-3 system(much more expensive) or wait till 2015.

Now about the gpu. It is true that by september 20, Nvidia will have announced its new GPU lineup. Then your...

ksarex

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Well it is not exactly like your guy describes it. If you want ddr4 now you will have to spend much more money than you are going to spend now. Intel mainstream cpus will start supporting ddr4 somewhere in 2015. With that said i think that the cpu choice you made is excellent for gaming. But as Alpha3031 mentioned if you get a 4690K processor you may want to overclock and that's where you will need a Z97 mobo. If you dont want to overclock just dont buy the K version and stick with the mobo you chose. So CPU-mobo-RAM, i would stick with your choices rather than purchase a 2011-3 system(much more expensive) or wait till 2015.

Now about the gpu. It is true that by september 20, Nvidia will have announced its new GPU lineup. Then your GPU's price will drop and you would have spend more money if you bought the system right now. But you dont know for sure if this will happen at the start of october or at the end of it.

What i would do: Purchase everything except GPU , build the system and wait to see how big the performance gap will be between the NVidia GPU generations and finally make a decision about my GPU.
 
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