Advice on my tentative build ~$1100

Tnastier · Aug 9, 2015

Looking to build a PC to play the newest PC games at very high settings. This is what I have so far:

CPU: i5-4690k $225
MOBO: ASRock Z97 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard $95
RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory $39
SSD: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $79
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $44
VCARD: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card $312
CASE: Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case $100
COOLER: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler $26
PSU: EVGA 850W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $70

Total of around $990 at this point. I'd like to buy the parts within a week or so. If there're any tweaks that you recommend then I would be highly appreciative. I'd also like advice on buying a monitor, preferably under $150. Thank you.

Archaic59 · Aug 9, 2015

It's a great build with good parts selection. It all looks to be compatible. Well done. I'd like to see the full model number of the PSU you chose to be sure you got the best quality EVGA offers. New Intel Skylake CPU's are out now if you want to move up to the latest greatest. I can help with that if you're interested.

monitor- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IKDFL4O/?tag=pcpapi-20

Alain Auclair · Aug 9, 2015

850w is too much look for evga 650w and spend more on monitor

Rhezner · Aug 9, 2015

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8x4sNG 980ti with 144htz monitor

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GR2mcf 390 with 144htz monitor and xeon

Here are a couple of builds i came up with, they will both run well but the 980ti build is over budget. Any part preferences? case? ssd?

Tnastier · Aug 9, 2015

Archaic59 :

If you could show me a build with the 6600, that'd be great!

Alain Auclair :

Reason I went with the 850w is because it's incredibly cheap at the moment. Downgrading doesn't save me any money at all as far as I can see. If you could show me some cheaper alternatives, that'd be awesome.

Rhezner :

No part preferences. I'm a complete newbie to this stuff. Is an 8gb video card necessary? Seems overkill but I could be wrong.

Thanks for helping, everyone!

Rhezner · Aug 9, 2015

the 8gb video card is better than a 970 and isn't really overkill for modern games, it will consume more power but you wont really notice that much of a difference on your real world power bill depending on how much you play, If you play for 4 hours a day on max load and keep it for 3 years, and your electricity costs 12 cents per kilowatt hour, it will cost 35-40$ more than a gtx 970 but will also improve performance by a decent bit.

The 980ti blows either of them out of the water though.

I think you should go with one of these builds if you want it to be cheaper you could remove the ssd or get an i5 4460 instead of a 390. Any questions?

Archaic59 · Aug 9, 2015

Here's the basics for a skylake i5 build. You can use the other parts you chose with these-

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($251.98 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($34.50 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus Z170-P ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $486.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-09 08:53 EDT-0400

Rhezner · Aug 9, 2015

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qtwcK8

This would be a good skylake build and the 144htz monitor is optional. The 980ti build above would definitely be better for gaming though.

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