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First custom build - gaming pc - 1.6k to 1.8k budget

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September 30, 2014 5:51:09 AM

Hello All, thank you for the help!
I am considering my first custom PC build for gaming, budget is around 1600 - 1800 eur.

I am considering the followign two options (details at end of post)

http://it.pcpartpicker.com/p/DtxXMp <- around 1800 EUR
http://it.pcpartpicker.com/p/snTsMp <- around 1600 EUR

I am not looking to OC much if at all, liquid cooling is also a no-go.

What do you guys suggets? Are there any pitfalls, mistakes in the build, oversights? Did i forget something?

Thank you for the help,
Cheers,
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------- details of the builds -------

1800 eur:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (€329.00 @ Amazon Italia)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (€45.08 @ Amazon Italia)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste (€13.40 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 EXTREME6 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€178.75 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Corsair 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€151.97 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Crucial M500 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€103.94 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€50.48 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card (€389.16 @ Amazon Italia)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case (€115.08 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€116.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer (€26.25 @ Amazon Italia)
Monitor: Asus VE247H 23.6" Monitor (€143.54 @ Amazon Italia)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (€43.46 @ Amazon Italia)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan (€21.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan (€21.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired Standard Keyboard (€16.46 @ Amazon Italia)
Total: €1767.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-30 14:37 CEST+0200


1600 eur:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (€218.49 @ Amazon Italia)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (€45.08 @ Amazon Italia)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste (€13.40 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 EXTREME6 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€178.75 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€34.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€34.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€34.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Crucial M500 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€103.94 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€50.48 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card (€389.16 @ Amazon Italia)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case (€115.08 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€116.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer (€26.25 @ Amazon Italia)
Monitor: Asus VE247H 23.6" Monitor (€143.54 @ Amazon Italia)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (€43.46 @ Amazon Italia)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan (€21.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan (€21.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired Standard Keyboard (€16.46 @ Amazon Italia)
Total: €1609.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-30 14:32 CEST+0200

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September 30, 2014 5:57:20 AM

GTX 970 is 14% faster than GTX 780 and has 4GB VRAM
to enable dual channel memory 2x8GB is better

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($88.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($72.00 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($349.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $840.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-30 08:57 EDT-0400
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October 1, 2014 1:30:07 AM

Thank you for the suggestions.

I would really like to include a GTX 970, however it seems like they are not available in Italy for the moment. If it's juts one or two months for them to become available I can definitely wait, otherwise I will probably have to buy an older card unfortunately.

I agree that a 2x8GB ram configuration is better, updated.
Ditched the wireless controller, after realizing that for a desktop pc it would not be that useful.
I finally ditched the 1800 eur version, imho the extra cost was not worth it.
Updated build:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (€218.49 @ Amazon Italia)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler (€74.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 EXTREME6 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€162.47 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Corsair 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€151.97 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Crucial M500 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€103.94 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€50.48 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card (€372.40 @ Amazon Italia)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case (€114.53 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€116.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer (€26.25 @ Amazon Italia)
Monitor: Asus VE247H 23.6" Monitor (€143.54 @ Amazon Italia)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan (€21.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan (€21.90 @ Amazon Italia)
Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired Standard Keyboard (€16.46 @ Amazon Italia)
Total: €1596.13
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-01 10:29 CEST+0200
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October 1, 2014 10:31:09 AM

I was worried about the temps of the Radeon R9 290, although performance wise it definitely looks better. Does the ASUS version of the card with custom cooling do enough to lower the temp?

Not looking for SLI / Crossfire atm, but I'd definitely like to keep the option open for the future.
Thanks for the recommendation on the PSU, the XFX does look better at the same price pretty much. I'm looking to stay in the 750W range in order not to have problems with 2 gpu's plus other possible upgrades in the future.

Re the mobo, the price diff between the ASRock Z97 Extreme6 and the ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X Killer is around 35 EUR, not much. I read the specs but I'm not that much of an expert, in practice, real use case, what's the difference (besides the ridiculous name of the second)? Btw I don't have to go ASRock necessarily, reading around it just seemed to be in a sweet spot as far as price/performance/reliability, but I'd be willing to pay a bit more to increase in particular reliability.

Thanks,
A
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October 1, 2014 10:50:27 AM

Well , your rig looks well .
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October 1, 2014 12:50:47 PM

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($225.98 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14CS_RD 88.6 CFM CPU Cooler ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($117.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($109.97 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($349.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($349.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($80.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $1504.86
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-01 13:14 EDT-0400

GTX 970 SLi will be beastly.
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