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anoori9000

anoori9000

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Hello everyone!

One of my co-workers wants a PC for gaming, editing, and some rendering (but mostly gaming).

I have put this together and would like some opinions on the build.

He has no desire to overclock, wants red and black, like every other gaming build ever.

Also he has an SSD.

Here it is:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1226 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($216.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty H97 Performance ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($99.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($57.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($52.49 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 290X 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($279.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair SPEC-03 Red ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($80.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $838.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-13 12:04 EDT-0400

Any opinions are accepted. Thanks guys!
 
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Derza10

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That looks like a very nice build, I'd maybe change out the PSU and GPU to this though:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty H97 Performance ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($99.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($57.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($52.49 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($332.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair SPEC-03 Red ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $878.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-13 12:13 EDT-0400

Also updated the CPU with one with hyperthreading.
 
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RCFProd

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Very good build, a couple of suggestions though.

The Xeon E3-1226 doesn't come with hyper threading. Only the E3-1230 V3 and up support hyper threading which will be really helpful with rendering tasks.

I've made some changes, while I removed the CPU I reduced the price of the build with 60 dollars. I replaced the case with an equally good one (Just slightly smaller) and replaced the graphics card with a model that is 30 dollars cheaper. Same for the case, almost 30 dollars cheaper.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty H97 Performance ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($99.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($57.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($52.49 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 290 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($259.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($35.96 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($80.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $827.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-13 12:13 EDT-0400

 
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anoori9000

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I see I have missed the hyper threading. I was thinking that all of them did.

He said around 850 so I think a little over is fine with him: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty H97 Performance ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($99.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($57.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($52.49 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 290X 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($279.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair SPEC-03 Red ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($80.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $861.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-13 12:18 EDT-0400
 
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