Need advice on first gaming pc build under 1000

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Todd Grisley

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Hey Fellow Members,
I am looking to build my first gaming pc and was needing some advice from fellow members. I will be using this only for gaming and also researching stock prices(i occasionally stock trade). Games I play will include WoW & Runescape mostly and maybe some other MMOs. The build I wanna make has to have a h100i cpu cooler, I just really want to have a cpu water cooled. Aside from that my budget is around $1000 and will be ordering the parts through newegg. I am not including the monitor, shipping, keyboard, or mouse in the $1000.
 
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Here's something under 1K.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($224.29 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($92.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: PNY XLR8 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($56.87 @ Amazon)
Storage: Silicon Power S60 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($59.94 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($53.49 @ Directron)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280 3GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($189.99 @ Micro Center)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1500 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($52.25 @ Directron)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($87.99 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Arctic Cooling Arctic F12 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan ($6.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $900 ish
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-28 17:30 EDT-0400
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1241 V3 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($277.98 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120M 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.78 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($38.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP600 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB FTW ACX 2.0 Video Card ($329.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case ($27.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($95.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $1001.68
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-29 08:07 EDT-0400

If you are not planning on overclocking, you should go with xeon e3, have more cores and will probably have better performance inside big raids, encounters, etc

If you really want the H100i you can pick the E3 1231v3, and trow a bit more money in to the build.

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story6&reid=348
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014/05/16/evga_supernova_nex650g_650w_power_supply_review/9

If you want to overclock, you can go with this build:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($241.98 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($38.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP600 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB FTW ACX 2.0 Video Card ($329.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case ($27.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($95.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $1015.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-29 08:19 EDT-0400

And if you have plans to sli or crossfire in the future, you should get this MB (http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz97xsli) or better (that can run two GPU at x8)
 
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lol ?

Probably any Mb with LGA1150 will work with xeon E3 build for that socket... for the one I suggested: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H97%20Anniversary/?cat=CPU

no one builds a 1000$ gaming pc to use the integrated graphic card... so the fact that xeons normally dont have it is irrelevant. Btw, the xeon e3-1246 have built in graphic card.

And Hyperthreading does help in games ans will probably help even more in future more demanding games that can use more then 4 cores. http://techbuyersguru.com/CPUgaming.php
 
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