New Gaming Rig, how good will it be?

redxmoonx · Nov 17, 2014

im building a new gaming rig, im going to be playing games like COD:AW, DA:I, The Witcher 2 and 3 and so on. how good will this preform and should i change anything?

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K 4.0 GHz 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150 (All Venom OC Certified) (overclocked)

CPU / Processor Cooling Fan: Corsair Hydro Series H60 120mm Liquid CPU Cooling System w/ Copper Cold Plate (Single Standard 120MM Fan)

Motherboard: * GIGABYTE Z97X-SLI ATX w/ Intel GbLAN, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 2 PCI, 1 x M.2, 1 x SATA Express, or 6x SATA 6Gb/s (Extreme OC Certified)

RAM / System Memory: 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/2133MHz Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Vengeance)(should i use 16 instead?)

Video Card: EVGA ACX Cooler NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Maxwell) (Dual Card (SLI))(can you overclock gpu? how?)

ninja85a · Nov 17, 2014

this will be able to play most games at max quality you dont need 16GB ram and i would wait and get another 970 for sli

socialassassin · Nov 17, 2014

Very good rig, It will be able to play all those games with no issue. I'd stick with 8GB RAM for now. If you want more in the future it's easy to add more modules. Also you could reduce the CPU to the i5-4690k if you wanted to save money, not much difference for gaming.
The 970 is a great card - I would look at the Gigabyte, Asus or MSI versions ahead of the EVGA though.

redxmoonx · Nov 17, 2014

socialassassin :

im doing 2 970 for SLI but im doing it thru cyberpower, only 970s there are

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Maxwell) (Single Card) [+182]
EVGA ACX Cooler NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Maxwell) (Single Card) [+219]

New! EVGA FTW Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ACX 2.0 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Single Card) [+250]

EVGA Superclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Maxwell) (Single Card) [+232]

socialassassin · Nov 17, 2014

redxmoonx :

socialassassin :

im doing 2 970 for SLI but im doing it thru cyberpower, only 970s there are

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Maxwell) (Single Card) [+182]
EVGA ACX Cooler NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Maxwell) (Single Card) [+219]

New! EVGA FTW Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ACX 2.0 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Single Card) [+250]

EVGA Superclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Maxwell) (Single Card) [+232]

Ok, I would stick to the card you chose then.

faalin · Nov 17, 2014

Things I would change

i7 4790K to an i5 4690K -> the i7 will give you no advantage's over the i5 in gaming.
H60 AIO cooler to a Cooler master hyper 212 evo
Corsair ram to G.skill or Mushkin ram

But since you're buying from cyberpower most likely the only thing you can change is going for an i5, but should still save you about $100.

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