High Performance PC

Guispfilho

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I'm building a high performance PC for gaming, and I ended up with these specs:

Graphic Card: GTX 970 4GB GDDR5
Processor: Core i5 4440
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97-D3H (rev. 1.1)
Water Cooler: Hydro SeriesT H55
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
HD: Hard Disk Western Digital WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5
SSD: Samsung Solid State Drive (SSD) 850 EVO 2.5“ SATA III 120GB; tecnologia 3D V-NAND
Font: Corsair CX750

I was wondering if with this specs I'll be able to run games like Battlefield 4 or Crisis 3 in high quality, or Minecraft at max rendering requirements (it seems that It requires a lot of processor).

And I don't really know the difference between the revised version of the motherboard. The 1.1 revision is cheaper than the original, non-revised... What does that mean?
 
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You're gonna want a higher quality power supply. The CX series isn't gonna catch on fire or anything, but it's just not as good as some other options.

I'd recommend a 620W Seasonic S12-II or their modular M12-II Evo version of the same PSU. If you're willing to spend more, I'd get something from their X series.

Revised, means it's a newer updated version of the board. Different caps or bios or most likely broadwell support in this case.
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You're gonna want a higher quality power supply. The CX series isn't gonna catch on fire or anything, but it's just not as good as some other options.

I'd recommend a 620W Seasonic S12-II or their modular M12-II Evo version of the same PSU. If you're willing to spend more, I'd get something from their X series.

Revised, means it's a newer updated version of the board. Different caps or bios or most likely broadwell support in this case.
 
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CTurbo

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Yes a Haswell i5 + GTX970 will dominate 1080p. There is no need for a water cooler. Scrap that and get a slightly more powerful i5 like the 4570 or 4590 since they're only like +$15-20

Avoid Corsair CX psus. All you really need is a solid 550w unit. I recommend one of the 550w XFX models.
 

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