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Wael Mahmoud

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After many long years ,I finally managed to gather some money (1250 $) to build my gaming beast .

I play Battlefield 4 , COD , GTA V............and there is NO video editing at all .

I am kinda NOOB in building a gaming pc ; my current pc worth around 120 $ :D

SO what do you think about my build???????.....I will buy the components this weekend

here is my building specs and their prices:

CPU : core i5-6600K 281.25 $

MotherBoard : Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 3 206.25$

cpu cooler : cooler master hyper 212 X 37.5 $

VGA : sapphire Nitro R9 -390 387.5 $

RAM : Crucial Ballistix Elite 1X8 2666MHz 100 $

PowerSupply : Evga SuperNova 750 B2 Bronze 112.5 $

Case : HEC Cougar Evolution 6GR1 full tower 84.375 $

Thermal Paste : Noctua NT-H1 Hybrid 10 $
 
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Ram speed and timings are not as much of any concern as they used to be, high speeds and on-die memory controllers have even things out there. You'll get the same performance with 2400 as you will with 2666 or 3000, especially in gaming usage. For some high ram demand apps, like what some professionals use with 128Gb of ram etc, then yes, speed will make a difference, but with non time sensitive stuff, its basically irrelevant. Once you get into brands like Corsair or g-skill or Kingston, pretty much ram is all the same. The only differences are some better timings, prices and OC ability. Since you don't need to OC your ram with newer cpus, no real point in spending extra for extravagant ram that'll do the same job as the regular...
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I would switch out the CPU with the AMD FX-8350, the MOBO to the Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0, and the CPU cooler to the Cooler Master Seidon 120v. I would mount the Seidon radiator to the rear of the case. But this is my opinion. People tell me that I'm old fashioned in that I still recommend the AMD FX-8350 CPU, but I find it to have all the power I would need for HD gaming and HD video editing/rendering and production. Also, I would definitely think about your GPU in terms of upgrade-capability because you probably can put it in crossfire if you ever need more GPU power, but not all games support AMD crossfire.
Also, you'll find AMD drivers for the Radeon cards to be Hell. They've definitely improved with the launch of the 300 series, but they're still known to sometimes brick the card during updates, until you put in another and uninstall the 390 through device manager and uninstall Catalyst Control Center and start over by doing a clean install of the new drivers after powering off and putting the 390 back in as the only card.

If you go with my suggestions for components, you'll save some too because you'll find that the CPU and MOBO are both cheaper.
 
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@ weberdarren97

Actually you are right about the FX-8350 being enough for gaming , but it produces more heat and consumes much more power than i5-6600K ......the i5-6600k is built with 14nm which make it cooler and much more power efficent..........In addition to that benchmarks always favours i5 over even FX-9590.

I currently have amd athlon II X2 250 @ 3.00 GHz so I am curious about moving to Intel .

And thank you for your response......I want your opinion about Motherboard ,Ram and powersupply becuase I am not 100% sure about them .
 
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AMD fx Cpus can't touch Intel single thread performance, and this is of major importance for heavy single thread games like skyrim or fallout. The only time the 8350 holds any advantage whatsoever vrs any i5 is in games like bf4 multi-player where the hame engine is optimized for multiple core usage and takes full advantage of as many threads as available. The fx 8350 is second only to an i7/xeon in those games, but still requires a hefty OC to reach that position or it falls in performance to the i5 levels, simply due to lousy comparative single thread performance.

Should you buy amd fx now? Not unless the budget absolutely demands it. On average, even a i5 4460 will get better performance across a wider variety of games vrs a moderately oc'd 8350. There are high hopes the new amd Zen cpus will check this discrepancy.

Build looks good, its well balanced for 1080p or possibly 1440p. Psu is great, especially for the price atm, mobo is good. The only 2 areas of questionability I see are lack of an SSD, which does help in games, to differing degrees, and ram. I'd suggest a 2x4Gb kit over a single 8Gb stick, unless you have plans for later upgrade to 16Gb, in which case I'd strongly advise scrapping that idea and get a full 2x8Gb now. Mixing ram batches is never a good idea, and less so with higher performance ram as tolerances are much tighter
 
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@Karadjgne

you are completely right about FX series .

As for your 2 questions :

1- My budget already had SSD at first.....but after I got over-budget I delayed that idea ...I was going for Samsung 850 EVO @ 100 $ .

2- I already searched for 2X4 DDR4 but I Found only 1X8.... If I add later an additional identical Ram,Will it work as dual channel ? or I had to buy a RAM Kit to work as dual channel ?

..............

What do you think of the power supply ? What is the minimum wattage I can buy (Considering R9 390)?

Will this premium Ram make a difference ? or should I spend the money somewhere else ?

What do you think of the MB ? I will never do SLI or Crossfire .
 
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I agree with your idea of an SSD, but I would still get a mechanical drive for the virtual memory (pagefile, etc.) because putting that on an HDD would greatly reduce the amount of write operations to the SSD, extending its operational lifespan. Put your OS as well as the games that need serious speed on the SSD, move pagefile.sys to the HHD, and save all your less speed sensitive items to the HDD, and use it for general storage as to keep the SSD as clean as possible.
 
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Ram speed and timings are not as much of any concern as they used to be, high speeds and on-die memory controllers have even things out there. You'll get the same performance with 2400 as you will with 2666 or 3000, especially in gaming usage. For some high ram demand apps, like what some professionals use with 128Gb of ram etc, then yes, speed will make a difference, but with non time sensitive stuff, its basically irrelevant. Once you get into brands like Corsair or g-skill or Kingston, pretty much ram is all the same. The only differences are some better timings, prices and OC ability. Since you don't need to OC your ram with newer cpus, no real point in spending extra for extravagant ram that'll do the same job as the regular stuff.

The psu is very good value for the money, Good tier2 psu.

The Gigabyte gaming series mobo's have been reported by many to be some of the better boards available.
 
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Thank you very much for your response and I will try to find cheaper Ram :) :).
 
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