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Hi everyone my names Alec and I'm looking at building my first gaming PC and this seemed like a good friendly forum to ask for help. My budget on the PC can vary a bit I'm probably just going to buy a couple parts per paycheck.
For CPUs I have been looking at an intel core i7-4790k is this a good CPU in your opinions?
Motherboard im looking at an ASUS Maximus VII hero is this good compatibility for the CPU?
GPU im looking at a GTX 970 is there a better one for the price or a bit more?
Storage id like to have around a 1TB 7200rpm HDD and a SSD for the OS.
This is as far as I have come, is any of this making sense or am I off a bit?
Thanks in advance for the help everyone I greatly appreciate it!
 
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If you're just gaming, and aren't too concerned with being on the "bleeding edge," then there is probably no reason for you to wait. I'm actually not that excited for Skylake, as it doesn't seem much different from the 4000-series. Looks like it'll have DDR4 & PCIE 4, which may or may not matter by next year (Re: Nvidia Pascal & it's massive bandwidth), but around the same speed as the 4790k (I think 0.2Ghz faster?).

Right now there are no GPU's that even get bogged down more than like 1-2% on PCIE 2, but tech does move fast. PCIE 3 will probably be great for a few years.

Since you'll only be gaming, an i5 (like the 4690) will be plenty (unless you're going to SLI/Crossfire?). I'd recommend going an SSD solely for the OS, as you can...
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Depending on if you don't mind waiting, Skylake is coming out very soon http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new-product/pc-upgrades/skylake-release-date-specifications-3590751/

If you don't want to wait, then please post your estimated budget, country, purpose of the PC (gaming, editing, etc), needs (monitor, operating system, etc), and anything that might be important.

What qualifies something as good depends on all the things I listed above, so I can't judge too much yet. The 4790k is a generally good CPU though, but depending on budget/monitor the GTX 970 isn't always the best choice.
 
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I wouldnt mind waiting for that line of processors to come out. What are the perks of these new processors? The PC would will be used for gaming, and I will be using it on a 28inch 1080p monitor I may or may not upgrade when the PC is complete. My country is the US, my budget is fairly open ended, just nothing too expensive like a 1000$ GPU .
Thanks so much for the fast reply.
 
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If you're just gaming, and aren't too concerned with being on the "bleeding edge," then there is probably no reason for you to wait. I'm actually not that excited for Skylake, as it doesn't seem much different from the 4000-series. Looks like it'll have DDR4 & PCIE 4, which may or may not matter by next year (Re: Nvidia Pascal & it's massive bandwidth), but around the same speed as the 4790k (I think 0.2Ghz faster?).

Right now there are no GPU's that even get bogged down more than like 1-2% on PCIE 2, but tech does move fast. PCIE 3 will probably be great for a few years.

Since you'll only be gaming, an i5 (like the 4690) will be plenty (unless you're going to SLI/Crossfire?). I'd recommend going an SSD solely for the OS, as you can get decent sized SSD's for cheapish. If you really need the extra storage, a 1TB HDD can be had for cheap.

Maybe you'd want something like this for overclocking http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zMFB6h or change the GPU to this for a 4k monitor https://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-r9390xgaming8g Not overclocking? This http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xW9sQ7
 
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