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need help building a gaming computer $700 roughly..
want it to be Intel...
like the i5 4460 ..
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($166.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($69.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($50.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($89.99 @ Adorama)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280 3GB Dual-X Video Card ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Cougar MX300 ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Directron)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($52.00 @ Newegg)
Other: Windows 10 Preview ($0.00)
Total: $619.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-27 01:55 EDT-0400
 
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Was looking at this
Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 RED LED Black ATX Mid Tower Gaming Computer Case
Western Digital Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
GIGABYTE GV-N960G1 GAMING-2GD GeForce GTX 960 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support ATX Video Card
CORSAIR CX series CX600M 600W ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC CP-9020060-NA ...
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB)
MSI Z97 PC Mate LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
what you think

 
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Rubbish build. Slow HDD, unreliable PSU, overpriced motherboard. Go with the R9 280, 280x, or 290. All three of those are better than the GTX 960.
 
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LOL

Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB is one of the best hdds. It's 7200rpm which is as fast as it can get.
THe PSU is not quite unreliable but not the best either. If everything else is too expensive, then it works as last resort.
Whether the motherboard is overpriced or not, is debateable.
R9 280 and 280X are slower than GTX960. Only R9 290 is faster than 960.


That build is good, just not cost effective. There is better motherboard and PSU choices.
 
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HDD is still slow.

CX still has CapXons in the secondary, and is still the #1 most returned PSU in PSU history.



 
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In that, they beat the 960, but games do not care about bus width. Unless playing at big resolutions.
All of the cards are not made for the resolutions where that would play a big part. They are 1080p cards. R9 290 and partly R9 280X being 1440p cards but not fully that either.

R9 280X is is better in few things, but difference is only 2-4fps.
That isn't worth almost 2 times the power consumption.


Also, about the HDD. It is slow, compared to SSD. But that's the very point of SSD: being faster than HDD.
Almost all SATA III 7200RPM HDDS are just as fast. Just Western Digital has best quality.
 
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Here's a good video which supports both of our arguements:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEWABNJi6Rc

You can see that in games like Dying Light, DayZ and Titanfall, which have a lot particles or graphical information, the 1Gb extra VRAM and higher bus width makes the R9 280X better in those situations.
But in other situations the GTX 960 beats it.

It highly depends of game and game area.
Also, in many games, surely the VRAM amount plays a part.
Games like Dying light easily uses over 2Gb. Thus 4Gb 960 would surely do better in them.
 
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im playing mostly lol and wow

 
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Hmm...both of those games are more cpu heavy because they are online games/MMO.
I think LoL is only 32-bit while WoW has both 32-bit and 64-bit clients

LoL would probably work best with GTX960 but WoW could use the higher memory bandwidth with all the information it has to load. So R9 280 or R9 280X would work better with it.
Hard to say since there is no comparisons.
 
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