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Hey guys, so I made this build however I'm not too sure about the CPU cooler, PSU and motherboard since the last time I built a PC was about 6 years ago. If you guys could take a look and revise it and give me some quick tips on how to improve it that would be great. So long as it does not exceed around $1500-1600. Thank you!

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/Q4DNsY
 
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I like it but I have some suggestions

Move to this cpu, this is the latest revision of the 4770 with better cooling ability and higher clock rate for the same price.

Intel Core i7-4790K Haswell Quad-Core 4.0GHz
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117369

Get this GPU. GTX 970 vs 770. For the price that card is too expensive and would be utterly destroyed performance wise by this card.

EVGA 04G-P4-0972-KR GeForce GTX 970 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487065&cm_re=gtx_970-_-14-487-065-_-Product

Get the larger SSD 120 just isn't enough I have that exact drive you chose, while great performance wise, after the OS and 3 decent sized games you run out of space as you really...
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I'm going to go ahead and assume you're building a gaming PC. This is missing a video card, since apparently 970s aren't out in Canada yet, which is a crock. An i7 is pointless for gaming still, but if you do heavy video editing/rendering, it becomes worthwhile. My build leaves you a solid $700-800 to play with, which should theoretically be enough for SLI 970s, not that I'd recommend that with the power supply.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($273.00 @ Amazon Canada)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($44.09 @ Amazon Canada)
Motherboard: Asus Z97-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($157.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($159.70 @ Amazon Canada)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($64.98 @ Amazon Canada)
Power Supply: SeaSonic X Series 660W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Optical Drive: LG WH16NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer ($93.96 @ Amazon Canada)
Total: $793.72
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-20 02:22 EDT-0400
 
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I like it but I have some suggestions

Move to this cpu, this is the latest revision of the 4770 with better cooling ability and higher clock rate for the same price.

Intel Core i7-4790K Haswell Quad-Core 4.0GHz
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117369

Get this GPU. GTX 970 vs 770. For the price that card is too expensive and would be utterly destroyed performance wise by this card.

EVGA 04G-P4-0972-KR GeForce GTX 970 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487065&cm_re=gtx_970-_-14-487-065-_-Product

Get the larger SSD 120 just isn't enough I have that exact drive you chose, while great performance wise, after the OS and 3 decent sized games you run out of space as you really should always have 20% of the drive space be free to avoid impacting performance.
For an extra 40 dollars you could double the drive space and have more than 3 games installed.

SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE250BW 2.5" 250GB SATA
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147248
 
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Wow thanks guys. I'm just wondering, since I work with AutoCad quite a bit, would going with the 4690k be taboo so to speak, as compared to the 4790k or would there be a negligible performance difference?
 
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If you do significant CAD work, the i7 becomes worth it. A ton of people posting here don't do any sort of work which would necessitate having 8 logical cores, so we tend to steer people towards i5 automatically since the majority don't need an i7.
 
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I guess it's really a matter of how much time you have on your hands and what your budget is. Yes the threads can process cad and 3ds max more quickly (we used to use network rendering in the pentium 3 days), but it doesn't complete the same task in any different way that makes it better.
 
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Time is money, literally. If you do design work, the faster and more fluidly things render, the more work you get done. That justifies laying out an extra $100 for 50% or more on the tasks that make use of it. I'm not really sure why we're having this argument, since we both agree that the OP has a justified case for getting an i7. I just happened to note that most of us default to the i5 because most users asking for build advice don't have any good reason to use an i7 over it.
 
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http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-2013-2014-2015/core-i7-or-i5-for-autocad-2015/td-p/5215341

im a little shocked at the results being discussed in the cad forums, it really sounds like these guys know what they are talking about. Using cad since 1984 sounds reputable enough. Everything i see seems to say that 8 to 16 gb and an ssd are more worthwhile than the i7. Id still get the i7 if it is an option but it sounds like most functions outside of rendering use only 2 cores
 
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