Upgrading my PC please help. ( wrong section, sorry)

xMon

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This is going to be my first build, my father actually bought this to me for my b-day and most of the parts are not really good.

This is my current specs

Cpu - i7 4790k
Memory - 8gb Crucial Ballistix
Mobo - h81m-k
Generic PSU

I was searching for parts that I could buy and this is what I manage to find with my tight budget:

GPU: EVGA GTX 750 ti FTW
MOBO: H87m
PSU: Hec Cougar PowerX 550W
Chassis: Deepcool Tesseract SW
SSD: not sure yet

is this good enough or should i change anything? Thanks
 
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What a nice father!

You sound a bit unthankful to be honest...

Nothing genrally wrong with the parts he bought, if not optimal.
With a bios update you can upgrade that MONSTER of a cpu he got you on that motherboard!
The ram is...

DasHotShot

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What a nice father!

You sound a bit unthankful to be honest...

Nothing genrally wrong with the parts he bought, if not optimal.
With a bios update you can upgrade that MONSTER of a cpu he got you on that motherboard!
The ram is great and the PSU...I mean a HEC is just as "meh". So you can probably just keep it for now.

Now that you don't need to spend on those, get a nice r9 280 or 960gtx and a Samsung evo 850 ssd.

Boom, NICE gaming pc with long lasting potential due to a great cpu.

The mobo can be upgraded further down the line too.
 
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xMon

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Im really thankful to my father actually, thats why Im using my own money to upgrade it
my current PSU is Fortress 700w is that good enough?

and I pick 750 because it doesnt use a lot of power, since its pretty hot here right now and I dont really want to increase our Electricity bills.
 

DasHotShot

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Well, the PSU will power the system, however it has too much wattage and the brand like you said is not great, that is true. Hec is not that much better though.

With such an insane CPU, it would be a waste to only use the 750ti.

If you want to stay on the efficient side, stay with Nvidia. The 960 is not at all a bad card and it is quite good on power too.

 

xMon

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Ok, Im going with gtx 960.
So I`ll just leave my mobo and psu for now ? and go save for a SSD ?

another problem is that my monitor only supports VGA.

Thanks~
 

DasHotShot

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Yes, you can leave those for now.

The SSD will bring a big boost to speed of various scenarios when operating the pc. Worth saving for.

You can get DVI/VGA adapters, cheap. Check Amazon or just google them