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building my first pc

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  • Intel i7
  • Intel
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  • GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY
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October 14, 2014 2:45:40 AM

Hi I am new here, and I would just like to know what I am missing or what I did wrong to my pc, how come it is slow. I recently bought an Intel core i7-4790K 4.0Ghz, Gigabyte B85M-HD3 as my motherboard, Kingston 4GB DDR3 -10600 as my ram, MSI GT630 2GB ddr3 as my GPU, WD 1TB caviar green, and my core elite ATX-600W as my PSU. based on the rating of Windows Index Experience my RAM and primary hard disk is 5.6 as my lowest score. Please help me what to do. is there an imposrtant driver i should install or is my RAM and HD not good? Thanks!

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October 14, 2014 2:52:19 AM

Your system is quite unbalanced but the Windows Experience Index (WEI) thing is generally useless and doesn't mean too much. I would have gone with a non-overclockable Intel i5 (you can't overclock your unlocked CPU anyways with that motherboard btw so you wasted your money) and gotten 8GB RAM and a better graphics card, and also a different PSU. A solid state drive (SSD) is one of the best things to own but at the moment they're not meant for mass storage - a HDD would have been better coupled with an SSD.

One thing you should always do is update everything to latest version (I need to update my OS ASAP to install latest graphics drivers), but don't expect that useless WEI to increase much if at all.
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October 14, 2014 2:57:49 AM

who advised you to buy that?! that is a terrible combination. Can you return parts and exchange them?
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October 14, 2014 7:31:49 AM

great CPU
slow RAM -1333MHz , you need 1600MHz Cl9 at least
weak GPU , get R7 260X or GTX 750 ti and faster . The best choices now are GTX 970 4GB VRAM and R9 280 3GB VRAM
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
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October 14, 2014 7:42:24 AM

Hehe.. The "R9" 260x.. and I agree with the rest. Also, why'd you get the caviar green version?
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October 14, 2014 7:49:09 AM

TomThePotato said:
Hehe.. The "R9" 260x.. and I agree with the rest. Also, why'd you get the caviar green version?


Hehe , read to the end ! i pointed out the minimum , so that he would be pleased
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October 14, 2014 3:00:17 PM

R7 260x!.. is what I meant. I think.. It should be R7 instead of R9, but I could be dead wrong.
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October 14, 2014 3:31:12 PM

TomThePotato said:
R7 260x!.. is what I meant. I think.. It should be R7 instead of R9, but I could be dead wrong.


Just a typo , right . i edited it .
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