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hey guys! Putting together my first gaming/streaming/music production computer and this is what I came up with after browsing tomshardware and other forums over the past week.

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K
Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 7
Memory: 16GB-Kit Corsair Vengeance
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4G, 4GB GDDR5
Storage: Samsung SSD 850 EVO SATA 6Gb/s 250 GB
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200 1000GB, SATA 6Gb/s
Power Supply: be quiet! STRAIGHT POWER 10 700W CM (updated)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 - 64-bit
Optical Drive: LG Electronics 14x Internal BDXL Blu-Ray Burner Rewriter WH14NS40 - Bulk Drive
Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D

do the parts fit together well? do any of you have bad experience with any of the parts? do I need any other parts?

cheers guys

UPDATED INFORMATION:

1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
- playing latest games, streaming on Twitch (1080p), FL studio (big projects)

2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
- whatever allows me to do the points above flawlessly (but not more than that)

3. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
- I'll run the system at default speed

 
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Higher frequency RAM, like his 2100 mhz, can be beneficial if you do a lot of editing work, graphic design and animation. For gaming, 8gb at 1600 mhz is considered optimal. I'm not sure what sort of editing work you will be doing, and whether you will actually need what you are paying for with an i7, but it is a massively better CPU than the AMD alternatives. Don't get me wrong, AMD make some good CPU's, if this was a gaming only build, an FX-8320 would probably give you more value for your money...
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awesome mate! thanks for quick reply! I changed the PSU to: be quiet! STRAIGHT POWER 10 700W CM

good choice?

cheers!
 
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Yup :)
 
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awesome!

I just added an optical drive to the rig: LG Electronics 14x Internal BDXL Blu-Ray Burner Rewriter WH14NS40 - Bulk Drive - Black

is this a good match for the case and will I be able to play blu ray discs with it?

(sorry that I exploit your kindness and time...but there are sooo many questions =D)

 
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Yeah that will play blu ray discs. It probably won't look very pretty if the blu ray player is a different color then the rest of the front of the case. Maybe Corsair have some kind of 5.25" cover to hide the blu ray player behind. If you don't care about how it looks then you don't need that tho.
 
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I understand if you prefer Intel. But I'm just going to throw it out there that I use an FX 8350 and 8GB DDR3 @ 2100 for streaming/video capture. It handles 30 and even 60fps 1080p captures while gaming in Guild Wars 2 (MMO, moderately optimized for multicore CPUs). So your CPU, RAM and storage are up to task, you will be fine with an i7.

Only suggestion I have is about your storage for video capture and editing. Turn off swap file on that disk, also turn off drive indexing, don't install anything on it or use it for anything other than video.

Since a lot of capture and editing is sequential read/write, I took 4 smaller disks and striped them strictly for performance. When a project is finished I save the files to a ZFS file server for archiving.
 
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thanks for the reply!

One question to you, Sir: what does the 2100 mean? 2100 MHz as opposed to my 1600 MHz?

cheers

 
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Higher frequency RAM, like his 2100 mhz, can be beneficial if you do a lot of editing work, graphic design and animation. For gaming, 8gb at 1600 mhz is considered optimal. I'm not sure what sort of editing work you will be doing, and whether you will actually need what you are paying for with an i7, but it is a massively better CPU than the AMD alternatives. Don't get me wrong, AMD make some good CPU's, if this was a gaming only build, an FX-8320 would probably give you more value for your money, but so would an i5- 4690k or i5-4460 (if you're not overclocking).

PS. noticed that you haven't included a cooler. You are paying extra for a motherboard and CPU that are good for overclocking here, so if you get a good cooler you will be able to squeeze some extra performance out of the system.

 
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