What Is A Good Sound Card And A Good Wi-Fi Adapter

Lazyboy10

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I'am doing my first PC build soon and I'am wondering if it matter what sound card I choose and it would be awesome if someone could tell what Wi-Fi adapter to use. I'am a little away from my internet box so a strong connector would be preferable.

The ones I chose were these but I do not know if they are good to use

Sound Card - Asus Xonar DSX 24-bit 192 KHz Sound Card

Wi-Fi Adapter - TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter
 
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Every modern motherboard will have good HD7.1 sound included.
I suggest you try it out first.
Only if you are an audiophile with high end speakers would a discrete sound card be good.

I think the Wi-Fi adapter is probably good.
A pcie based card will be stronger than a USB dongle.
It looks to have a decent antenna which helps with distance.

What is the rest of your proposed build?
Every modern motherboard will have good HD7.1 sound included.
I suggest you try it out first.
Only if you are an audiophile with high end speakers would a discrete sound card be good.

I think the Wi-Fi adapter is probably good.
A pcie based card will be stronger than a USB dongle.
It looks to have a decent antenna which helps with distance.

What is the rest of your proposed build?
 
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Lazyboy10

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My other components are

Mother Board - Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150

Video Card - EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0 Video Card

Processor - Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor

Memory card -G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600

Solid State Drive - Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Power Supply - EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

Optical Drive - Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer

Cooler - Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Hard Drive - Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
 
Looks good.
Instead of spending $90 for a H80I cooler so you can oc the 4690K from 3.5 to 4.0, why not spend it on a i7-4790K that runs at 4.0/4.4 stock? You get a better binned chip, more L3 cache and hyperthreading.
The stock Intel cooler does get noisy under load, so I might add a $30 cm hyper212 mainly for quiet.

I have become a bit jaded on the subject of haswell cooling for overclocking.
How high you can OC is firstly determined by your luck in the bin lottery.
I had high expectations from the Devil's canyon parts and their better thermals.
I found out that the thermals really do not matter unless, perhaps, you are a competitive overclocker.
Haswell runs quite cool, that is, until you raise the voltage past 1.25v or so.
Once you go past 1.3v, then you really do need very good cooling to keep stress loads under say 85c.
But, the consensus is that voltages higher than 1.30 are not a good thing for 24/7 usage.
I have been unable to find any official Intel recommendation on what is a safe vcore limit.

Even if you can handle the heat, how much do you really need that extra multiplier from say 4.4 to 4.6?

My canned rant on liquid cooling:
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You buy a liquid cooler to be able to extract an extra multiplier or two out of your OC.
How much do you really need?
I do not much like all in one liquid coolers when a good air cooler like a Noctua NH-D15 or phanteks can do the job just as well.
A liquid cooler will be expensive, noisy, less reliable, and will not cool any better
in a well ventilated case.
Liquid cooling is really air cooling, it just puts the heat exchange in a different place.
The orientation of the radiator will cause a problem.
If you orient it to take in cool air from the outside, you will cool the cpu better, but the hot air then circulates inside the case heating up the graphics card and motherboard.
If you orient it to exhaust(which I think is better) , then your cpu cooling will be less effective because it uses pre heated case air.
And... I have read too many tales of woe when a liquid cooler leaks.
google "H100 leak"
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Your pc will be quieter, more reliable, and will be cooled equally well with a decent air cooler.

FWIW.
I will never again build without a ssd for the "C" drive. It makes everything you do much quicker.
120gb is minimum, it will hold the os and a handful of games. If you can go 240gb, you may never need a hard drive.

I would defer on the hard drive unless you need to store large files such as video's.
It is easy to add a hard drive later.
Samsung EVO is a good choice.
Intel 730 is OK too.