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Whateverworks_19

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What I am doing:

Building my own PC.

What I will use it for:

Primarily gaming. OC is plausible.

Components thus far:

Cabinet: Thermal Overseer RX-1 - LINK

MOBO: ASUS Z97-A - LINK

SSD: Kingston 120GB V300 - LINK

DD: Lite-On IHAS122 - LINK

CPU: i5 - 4690k - LINK

FAN: CM Hyper 212 EVO - LINK

GPU: ASUS Geforce GTX750 2GB - LINK

RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 2x4GB - LINK

PSU: Corsair 850W 80+ Gold - LINK

OS: WIN7-64bit

What I need help with:

I simply need a knowledgeable gentleman or lady to check the balance of that rig, either if some of the stuff is too powerful and therefore unnecessary to my needs, or if its actually inferior and therefore cannot satisfy my needs.

My knowledge tells me, that I have found good components, in a decent balance and it will definitely provide me with hours of fantastic gaming experiences.

Thank you for your help and replies.

/Christian
 
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herrwizo
First, I don't see motherboard in your build.

Second, replace that SSD with Samsung 840 EVO or Crucial MX100 - it has very slow NAND and is nowhere near in terms of speed. It was once a very good model, not so recently.

Third, the graphics card is too weak for this build - you got a top-notch CPU, so better get Nvidia GTX970 if you can. Or at least GTX960.

Finally, the PSU is quite bad in terms of quality - Corsair RM is excellent only up to 650W, higher-powered models are made by Chicony and use bad capacitors. In fact, if you won't be using SLI in the future, get Corsair RM650W, it will be more than enough. Or any Seasonic or XFX 650W.
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Sounds really really good but why is your only storage a 120 Gb Ssd? While that's great and would really speed up operations on your system, 120 Gb is not much space.
You might wanna consider a normal hard drive, like a 300-500 Gb or a bigger size Ssd.
You can install your operating system and games on the Ssd and use the hard drive for normal storage.
 
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``SSD: Kingston 120GB V300`` get a samsung 850 evo instead
``GPU: ASUS Geforce GTX750 2GB`` get a gtx 760 or gtx 960 minimum
``Cabinet: Thermal Overseer RX-1`` why this case? for the look or features?
what is your max budget?
do you going to do some 3D rendering or just gaming like you said
 
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herrwizo

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First, I don't see motherboard in your build.

Second, replace that SSD with Samsung 840 EVO or Crucial MX100 - it has very slow NAND and is nowhere near in terms of speed. It was once a very good model, not so recently.

Third, the graphics card is too weak for this build - you got a top-notch CPU, so better get Nvidia GTX970 if you can. Or at least GTX960.

Finally, the PSU is quite bad in terms of quality - Corsair RM is excellent only up to 650W, higher-powered models are made by Chicony and use bad capacitors. In fact, if you won't be using SLI in the future, get Corsair RM650W, it will be more than enough. Or any Seasonic or XFX 650W.
 
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Whateverworks_19

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Thank you for your quick reply, Sir!

Well, the reason is because I already have an old 1TB HHD, so my thinking was choosing the SSD as the drive where I store games and my OS, and then my old HHD as a storage device.

However, after having read your post and gave it a bit of thought, I will probably buy a new storage HDD and then let my old one go - its getting quite old.
 
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Whateverworks_19

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No particular reason. What would you suggest, Sir? No budget, as long as we don''t hit 10k lol.
 
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Whateverworks_19

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First of all, thank you for your thorough reply! Well, I completely forgot to post it, lol.

ASUS Z97-A with the 1150 socket.



Understood. Seen a few folks now saying the Kingston SSD is a bad choise. I'll check the Samsung one out, thanks!



Very helpful, I will for sure buy the GTX970 4GB.



I will probably try SLI in the future when I get a second GPU, until then I will research the model you provided, and probably end up buying it!

I thank you very much for your response, Sir. It is my absolute pleasure gaining knowledge on this forum.

Have a great day,

/Christian



 
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I would be a bit wary about LED fans. They are usually low quality, noisy and IMHO, annoying in the logn term, that bright light...

Gfx card 290/290X or equivalent Nvidia cards. If you are looking at 960, a 280X might be a better purchase. I can't recommend the AMD 285.

Motherboard decides how well you can overclock so if you are going to do that, read up on them.
Digital VRM, well-cooled VRM, good power phase (6+2 at least) etc.
You could google or check on youtube what speeds others have been able to get with a certain motherboard. If its for example 400 mhz lower CPU-speed than most other mobos,it's a bad board for OC. Good OC boards also tend to cost twice as much.

And 600-700 W PSU should be enough, as long as it's a quality PSU. OCed I imagine you would land at 4-500 W usage for the whole system.
 
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Whateverworks_19

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Based on your replies I have changed to the following:

Cabinet: Thermal Overseer RX-1

MOBO: ASUS Z97-A

SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB

DD: Lite-On IHAS122

CPU: i5 - 4690k

FAN: CM Hyper 212 EVO

GPU: MSI GTX970 4GB or ASUS GTX970 4GB. (The ASUS one is a bit more expensive, what would you guys suggest?)

RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 2x4GB

PSU: Seasonic X-750 750W (This one looks like top-notch quality)

OS: WIN7-64bit

Thank you all.

/Christian
 
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Whateverworks_19

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So after a little under a month with the PC I build from you guys help, it has been an absolute blast. I did a few minor changes though:

Instead of Seasonic X-750 750W I opted for EVGA Supernova G2 750W

And for my GPU I opted for Asus GTX970 4GB STRIX instead for a regular 970.

I simply write this last post, to inform people that my build was a success and these components are great together. I thoroughly enjoy the Z97 BIOS, so easy to make subtle adjustments.

I am very satisfied coming here for help, instead of just buying what I first put together in the OP, which would have been a much inferior build.

Have a great day.
 
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