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Hey guys, I'm putting together a PC with some black Friday deals and wanted to see if anyone could tell me if the parts I've chosen are garbage or not. My budget is $1000 not including monitors, mice, ect... I was contemplating a new Skylake i5 CPU but chose to go with the 4790k devils canyon instead.

If anyone can find any better parts for a similar price please let me know.

Here's my build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jHKc8d

Any objections?
 
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Every part I suggested is something I'd buy myself.

The motherboard has 8 full Digital power phases compared to the 4 extended hybrid phases of the ASUS board. For a Devils Canyon i7, better power phases may be worth 200 to 300Mhz of overclock. If you chip is great, it won't matter, if the chip is crud, it won't matter much, but you may get more out of an average chip.

Memory is cheaper and as good. I was aiming at your $1000.

The PSU is much cheaper but Tier 2, compared to your Tier 1. You could easily SLI GTX 980s on it. (and the motherboard supports SLI)

If it were my computer, I'd stretch to get 2400Mhz memory, and get a somewhat better CPU cooler, like the CRYORIG H7, but you cannot have everything. If I had to cut...
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Minor changes.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($298.00 @ NCIX US)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($24.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($113.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($71.33 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card ($299.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($45.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $1004.15
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-27 19:39 EST-0500

Good tier 2 PSU to get a much better motherboard for overlocking.
 
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Thanks for the reply, so the changes are
1: Mother board that supports higher overclocking speeds.
2: Lower priced power supply
3: Lower priced memory

Is the new PSU and memory better, or just cheaper?

Also, I'm planning on updating my GPU once the new Pascal cards come out, so the gtx 970 is sort of a temporary card. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't, but would this setup support that upgrade?
 
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Every part I suggested is something I'd buy myself.

The motherboard has 8 full Digital power phases compared to the 4 extended hybrid phases of the ASUS board. For a Devils Canyon i7, better power phases may be worth 200 to 300Mhz of overclock. If you chip is great, it won't matter, if the chip is crud, it won't matter much, but you may get more out of an average chip.

Memory is cheaper and as good. I was aiming at your $1000.

The PSU is much cheaper but Tier 2, compared to your Tier 1. You could easily SLI GTX 980s on it. (and the motherboard supports SLI)

If it were my computer, I'd stretch to get 2400Mhz memory, and get a somewhat better CPU cooler, like the CRYORIG H7, but you cannot have everything. If I had to cut further to get under $1000, I'd use a cheaper case. This will run up to two 200W GPUs.

If I needed to find another$40 to $50, I'd get one of Newegg's refurbished EVGA GTX970s for about $260.
 
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Thanks a lot for the replies, since my GPU is temporary I think i'll go for a refurbished 970 or maybe even a 960 so I can get faster memory.
I'm looking at these two for faster memory:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-memory-cmy16gx3m2a2400c11r
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f32400c11d16gxm

I think I'll go with the corsair even though its a bit more costIy.

I'm going for the PSU and the CPU cooling you suggested too, but I'm still on the border about the mother board. I'm looking at some comparisons and it looks like the asus is nearly identical except for the 8-Pin 12V Power Connector that the gigabyte has, but the asus seems to have more ports and some USB 3.1 ports for less money. Do you think the 8 pin Gigabyte MOBO will make a big difference?

Mother Board comparison:
http://motherboards.specout.com/compare/3455-4986/GIGABYTE-GA-Z97X-Gaming-5-vs-ASUS-Z97-A-USB-3-1
 
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It's not about 8 pins.

You may just have to trust me on this or read more reviews and research overclocking.

You have bought an overclock capable CPU and paid a fair premium for it, so I assume you want to overclock. The better, more stable and cooler, the power phases on your motherboard, the better your overclock is likely to be. The i7 4790 is the top Haswell LGA1150 chip and uses quite a bit of power. The Gigabyte Z97X Gaming 5 is the best all-round motherboard in the $100 to $130 price range. There are no sub-$100 motherboards that I would want to do a serious overclock of an i7 4790K on. (except in unusual sale situations) The question is not what it has, but what you are going to use.

Cases are a personal choice. I understand.

I use G.Skill Trident X because I overclock it even further. Get the cheapest CL/CAS 10 or 11 DDR3 2400Mhz memory you can fine from a major manufacturer. RAM is a commodity.
 
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I'll just trust you with the mother board.

Here's the new build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8g4BkL

I went with the GSkill memory, i just realized how good of a deal it is. I hope build quality is good.

I think I'm gonna go with this temporary GPU instead of that ASUS though:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487153

What do you think?

[EDIT: New parts list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8BdrNG ]
 
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Looks great.

That note about memory voltage on PCPartPicker is complete hogwash with this hardware configuration. When you boot the system, the memory will default to something slow and low voltage, but in BIOS you can enable an XMP profile to get 2400Mhz, even on locked chips, even with a Pentium G3258.
 
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I'm glad you said something about the XMP profile, I'll be sure to do that. The price of the g.skill memory was hired to about the same price as the Corsair Vengeance Pro, so for aesthetic reasons i went with the corsair.

Thanks a lot for the replies, you've been a great help.
 
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