Is this a good gaming build to play rust and other games?

jeffrey1999

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I want to build a gaming pc to play games like Rust, H1Z1 and other steam games. I will be buying the parts by the end of this month and I was hoping if someone can tell me if my build is good and if it will be able to play the games mentioned above on at least high. I will be upgrading the gpu to a gtx 970 next year.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZRTydC
 
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A few quick suggestions:

- Z97 chipset is not required since you don't have a K CPU, so no overclocking. A very decent H97 board would do equally fine, and cost less.
- either get 2x4GB or 2x8GB, a single stick will run in single channel, thus slightly lowering overall performance. Not a big deal, but price-wise it is the same, so why not...
- consider adding an SSD for a system drive, even a 120GB model would boost general responsiveness a lot. Samsung 850 EVO, for example.

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This build is fine, and it'll run games at low to medium settings no problem. Just so you know, if you're going to be upgrading next year, wait to see what AMD and Nvidia come out with next to see how it affects prices of better products. The 970 is good, but it has it's issues.
 

jeffrey1999

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Nvidia are gonna release new gpu's next year?
 
A few quick suggestions:

- Z97 chipset is not required since you don't have a K CPU, so no overclocking. A very decent H97 board would do equally fine, and cost less.
- either get 2x4GB or 2x8GB, a single stick will run in single channel, thus slightly lowering overall performance. Not a big deal, but price-wise it is the same, so why not...
- consider adding an SSD for a system drive, even a 120GB model would boost general responsiveness a lot. Samsung 850 EVO, for example.
 
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Conaughty91

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hi i think that the parts that you have picked are very good but not balanced at all, your building a gaming pc and the one part that renders the games (IMO) is the part your skimping on now, thats not advisable at all

personally id recommend cutting away at your other components and beefing up the GPU not

like for example get an i3-4160 and maybe an h97 mobo and spend the extra money on that GPU now

like for exaple you could have a GTX 960, which is a very very capable gpu for the money
 

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I chose the Z97 mob as the shop I am buying my parts form doesn t have any h97 mobos and that is the cheapest one he has. I am going to get 2x4gb ram ( I chose the wrong one on pcpartpicker). Not getting ssd for now as I don t have enough money for one.

 


I agree and would suggest you take the money you save on the motherboard and put it into a better GPU. You have a powerful CPU with a low end GPU.
 

jeffrey1999

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Would a gigabyte 260x 2gb work better?

 

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The shop I am getting my components from doesn't have cheaper motherboards than the one I chose. I am gonna get the i3 4150 now and get a gainward gtx 960 2gb and upgrade to an i7 or an i5 next year instead.
 

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No, hate to go over old ground but would you not consider getting the 4130 and the 960?

if not then try looking at the 750ti..

 

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GREAT, EXCELLENT CHOICE...

they play games very very well together...
 

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I am only gonna use the i3 until I get the money for an i5 . I am not gonna play big games on the pc like gta 5 as I have my xbox one for that for now. I only want to be able to play Rust , gmod , counter-strike go and other games on steam.