Need help finishing a Gaming Computer with range of 1100-1400$ roughly

Kenrithe

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Hello everyone!
I'm completly new to building pc's and have therefor always bought them from the store. I figured it would be a lot cheaper and efficient to buy the individual parts and put them together myself.
I need help on these parts.
I spend much time during my day playing games, mostly World of Warcraft, where I've been used to playing on a laptop, on the lowest settings. I've had enough of settling and having looong and slow loading screens, I want to be able to also play more demanding games like Skyrim or BF4 and play them on high-ultra settings, with smooth FPS. I'm guessing that my price range is doable, but would also love to be able to reduce the price.
I live in Denmark, so the prices differ quite abit from what I've seen, but my budget is roughly 1300$. I've read extensively on other forums aswell, but really need the individual help for my spec, before I venture in to buying the parts.

A few things:
1) I'm a beginner, so I don't really have plans on overclocking in the near future. Nor do I plan on using 2 video cards (Crossfire, SLI??)
2) I have monitor, keyboard and other peripherals. And windows is not in this budget either.
3) I'm confused about power supplies, cooling and if it will even fit in the casing. Is the parts I picked gonna overheat/break down and do they even work together.

Every piece of information is a help for me and will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/wR4ksY

 

CTurbo

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If you're not going to overclock, you may as well get a faster cpu for cheaper. No need to spend more. This would be an extremely fast system in all tasks.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£198.71 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£60.34 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£58.69 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£73.02 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.60 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (£274.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair 500R Black ATX Mid Tower Case (£95.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£47.99 @ More Computers)
Total: £849.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-01 01:57 BST+0100
 

Kenrithe

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First of all thank you for the answer.

1) I don't plan to overlock, simply because I have never done it, but it is something I would like to do at some point, when I feel comfortable about it (if that makes sense).
- If I do OC, will there be any heat issues with the current parts??
- Also, not sure about the price differences here, but the CPU you've put, is a tiny bit more expensive. I know nothing about CPU's, I'd only got the feeling from reading different forums that it's a pretty safe bet to stick to Intel i5.

2) I'm unsure if I have chosen the right case, PSU and if I need more cooling power or if the stock will be sufficient. I would like to build this machine so it would be easily upgradable when I get my hands on some more cash.

3) I didn't mention in the first thread, that I also plan to stream WoW. Will the CPU be able to handle it and again, is the CPU #2 linked better?
 

CTurbo

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1. Overclocking is a waste of money. The actual i5 4690k is a little cheaper than the Xeon, but you are stuck having to buy a much more expensive Z97 motherboard to be able to overclock as well as an after market cooler. The Xeon will run at full strength on the cheaper H97 motherboard with it's stock cooler making it cheaper in the end than the overclocking i5. The Xeon will perform just like an i7 4770.

2. The psu you chose is not good. The one I choose is way way way way way better.

3. The Xeon will perform better for you for streaming.
 

Kenrithe

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Thank you, this was very helpfull.

I'm wondering about userfriendlyness and guarentee in terms of it's lifespan.

I was under the impression that the intel was a more stable and secure product, am I wrong here?
 

Kenrithe

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Okay that's good to know, I appreciate all your help.
Seems like a good build, for one who is not gonna do SLI or overclock, I read some other posts on the topic on this forum (found your comments aswell and people who all agree).