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caseydavies93

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Hello i am building my first gaming pc and would just like to know if all the parts i have choose match and are compatible with each other also i would like to know if my build is good enough to run old and new games on high settings for the price im paying here is my build as follows.
Thanks for any helpfull advice.
PROCESSOR : Intel Core i5 4690 £178.00

CPU : be quiet! Dark Rock 3 Silent CPU Cooler £45

Motherboard : GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) ATX Motherboard £95.99

RAM : Corsair Vengeance Jet Black Low Profile 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 Dual/Quad Channel Kit £71.99

HDD : 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EZRX 3.5" SATA III Hard Drive - HDD £40.39

Graphics Card : Gigabyte GTX 770 WindForce 3x OC 2.0 4096MB GDDR5 Graphics Card £286.00

DVD Drive : Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD±RW 24x Retail £14.87

Power supply : 600W Corsair Builder Series CX600 80PLUS Bronze Power Supply £55

Sound : Asus Xonar DG 5.1 PCI Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp £23.51

Windows install : Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit DVD £70

Total £990

 
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1. Why use a 3rd party cooler without a CPU that can overclock ?

2. HD is very slow.

3. Faster memory available at less cost

4. 770 GFX card is last generation and current faster generation 970 is cheaper...EVGA card is defective
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/evga-geforce-gtx-970-acx-has-misaligned-gpu-vs-heatpipes.html

5. PSU is terrible, cheap caps

6. On Board sound is equal to that Zonar model

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/7kzpVn
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/7kzpVn/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£169.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE 78.1 CFM CPU Cooler (£76.58 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G45 Gaming...
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Yea you should be 100% fine with those parts for any games right now. Although I am not sure if its a 7200rpm or 5400rpm hdd but if you can just get the 7200rpm one. It shouldnt cost a lot more.
 
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I dont mean to sound like a noob, But whats rpm and where does it say how much is on the hdd?
 
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Well with that cpu you should get board with z97 chipset not the z87(requires a bios update to work with that cpu). Get the gtx 970 instead of the 770. The corsair cx series uses cheap caps with a high failure rate get a Seasonic, xfx, or super flower unit instead. Using a 5400 rpm hdd as a boot drive is also a bad idea, they are fine for storage but too slow for an os. The wd greens are 5400 rpm the blues and blacks are 7200rpm.
 
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RPM stand for revolutions per minute, it's how fast the disk in your hard drive spin around. The faster it goes the faster it can read and write data to the drive. The standard for a desktop is 7200rpm but you will find 5400rpm for laptops.

If it was me I would look at a cheaper CPU cooler, you have a locked processor so you won't be overclocking which means the cooler your getting is over priced for your needs. Also I would look into the R9 280x over the 4GB version of the 770, your over paying for that model. You will get similar performance with the 280x but it has 3GB of VRAM which will be enough for heavy anti-aliasing usage etc... but at a better price.
 
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Ok i changed a few things, How is this instead then?

CASE : Corsair Obsidian 650D Black Midi Tower Window Gaming Case £110

PROCESSOR : Intel Core i5 4690 £178.00

CPU : be quiet! Dark Rock 3 Silent CPU Cooler £45

Motherboard : Gigabyte Z97MX-Gaming 5 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £112.00

RAM : Corsair Vengeance Jet Black Low Profile 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 Dual/Quad Channel Kit £71.99

HDD : Western Digital 1TB WD1003FZEX Black Hard Drive - HDD £53.00

Graphics Card : EVGA GTX970 SC Cooling 4GB Nvidia (Maxwell) PCI Express Graphics Card £284.00

DVD Drive : Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD±RW 24x Retail £14.87

Power supply : 600W Corsair Builder Series CX600 80PLUS Bronze Power Supply £55

Sound : Asus Xonar DG 5.1 PCI Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp £23.51

Windows install : Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit DVD £70

 
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1. Why use a 3rd party cooler without a CPU that can overclock ?

2. HD is very slow.

3. Faster memory available at less cost

4. 770 GFX card is last generation and current faster generation 970 is cheaper...EVGA card is defective
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/evga-geforce-gtx-970-acx-has-misaligned-gpu-vs-heatpipes.html

5. PSU is terrible, cheap caps

6. On Board sound is equal to that Zonar model

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/7kzpVn
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/7kzpVn/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£169.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE 78.1 CFM CPU Cooler (£76.58 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£94.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£70.71 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive (£77.99 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (£274.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Luxe ATX Full Tower Case (£129.13 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£81.87 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£69.99 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £1046.23
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-13 22:53 BST+0100
 
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Get the 4690k, no need for an extra sound card since its not better than the integrated, the evga 970s have cooling issues, as I mentioned before the CX series have a high failure rate due to poor caps, I wouldn't reccommend wasting money on one. Pretty much go with Jack's build. Better cpu, faster ram, better gpu, better PSU. The only thing in Jacks list I would change is the MSI motherboard, as I would stick with an Asus or Gigabyte board.
 
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The equivalent Asus Board is the Hero .... MSI has same feature list, same or better components and is $40 cheaper.

MSI doesn't put you at risk of the BIOS Clock Freeze bug

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?35490-Sabertooth-Z87-Bios-Clock-Issue&p=404524&viewfull=1#post404524
"I have 3 boards with this issue in my shop and EVERY client system I built has this problem. I have tried EVERY fix in this thread, nothing works for more then a few days. Flashed BIOS, reset to factory, replaced batteries. NOTHING. "

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?45079-BIOS-Time-Clock-not-Keeping-Correct-Time-or-Date
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?49989-VII-HERO-Clock-never-changes-hour
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?49904-VII-Hero-Real-Time-Clock-Issues
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?33895-Hero-Time-Clock-Problem
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?46242-Hero-boot-shutdown-time-clock-error

Affects z97 too
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?36676-Frozen-Time-Clock-in-UEFI-The-Fix/page33


 
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