Building new gaming desktop- max.1 500$

SlovakGuy

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Hello guys,

I am building new gaming PC, but I need your help and I would appreciate it. I would play at 1440p and my goal is to reach minimal 30 FPS in all games maxed out with AA (for example- The Witcher 3, GTA V, War Thunder, ARMA 3,Crysis 3 and others...). I tried many configurations and I found one which I like most but I need your help with it. Is it built right? If not, recommend me what to change please. My budget is 1500$ / 1300€ (without display, keyboard and Windows). PC would be used mainly for gaming.

Configuration: http://de.pcpartpicker.com/p/fBktYJ
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97 Gaming 3 (I read that cheaper MSI motherboards are poorly made so I chose Gigabyte. Big advantage of this motherboard is support of SLI because I would add another graphic card in a few years.)
RAM: Kingston HyperX 8GB 1866mhz
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
GPU: Zotac GTX 980 Ti (I am afraid of bottleneck by CPU in games. I also tried build with GTX 970 SLI but I prefer one 980 Ti because of possibility to add another 980 Ti to SLI in future.)
CPU: Intel Core i5 4690K + Cooler Master Hyper 212 (I would overclock)
PSU: Cooler Master 650W 80+ Bronze


Thanks you in advance for help
 

SlovakGuy

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Thank you for answer guys :)
I have last question- is reference GTX 980 Ti good? I heard that reference cards are overheating and they are not as powerful as non-reference cards
 

SlovakGuy

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I am going to overclock CPU but GPU probably not, and if yes, just a little bit
I will wait for non-reference GTX 980 Ti and then I will buy this desktop
Thanks again guys for your help