any ideas how to save some money on this?

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any ideas how to save some money on this?

CASE: Fractal Design Define R5

CPU: i7 4790K

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition

Graphics Card: MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G

RAM: Kingston 2 x 4 GB

cooler: Enermax Liqtech 240

POWER SUPPLY: eVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2

SSD: SanDisk Ultra II Solid State Disk 480 GB
 
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First off that motherboard is actually poor quality. It is one of the worst performing motherboards in various benchmarks and in games - it's just designed poorly. Lower the power supply to an XFX 550W unit or a Seasonic M12ii 520W. Change the CPU to an I7-4790, and then purchase an H97 motherboard, such as the Asrock H97 Anniversary Edition. Then drop the CPU cooler and use the base one. And change that SSD to a WD 1TB hard drive.
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First off that motherboard is actually poor quality. It is one of the worst performing motherboards in various benchmarks and in games - it's just designed poorly. Lower the power supply to an XFX 550W unit or a Seasonic M12ii 520W. Change the CPU to an I7-4790, and then purchase an H97 motherboard, such as the Asrock H97 Anniversary Edition. Then drop the CPU cooler and use the base one. And change that SSD to a WD 1TB hard drive.
 
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-Change the CPU cooler to the Cryorig H7
-Smaller SSD (250GB) then grab a 1TB HDD
-Change the PSU to the EVGA B2 750W

Depending on if your overclocking or not you could change the CPU to a XEON for 4 cores, 8 threads. If just gaming then a i5-4690K would be fine as well.
 
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