Is this a good PC? is there any downfalls? dies it have good airflow?

dash123 · Jan 31, 2016

CASE NZXT Phantom 530 Full Tower Gaming Case - Black

3x [White] 120mm LED Case Fan

Intel® Core™ i7-4790K Processor (4x 4.0GHz/8MB L3 Cache) - Intel Core™ i7-4790K w/ Intel Performance Tuning Protection

Corsair Hydro Series H100i GTX 240mm Liquid CPU Cooler

32 GB [8 GB x4] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Corsair Vengeance

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Ti - 6GB - EVGA Hybrid (Liquid Cooled)

ASUS Z97-K -- 2x PCIe x16, 4x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0

850 Watt - Corsair RM850i - 80 PLUS Gold, Fully Modular

120 GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD -- Read: 550MB/s, Write: 470MB/s - Single Drive

2 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200rpm, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive

Mattios · Jan 31, 2016

You need to provide more details. What is the build purpose? What monitor are you using?

It's hard to say if it has good airflow because that depends on where they put the fans.

sizzling · Jan 31, 2016

What are you doing with it? 32gb RAM is huge and in most PC's pointless. 120gb SSD is quite small, I'd rather 240 or even 500 given how prices have dropped

smorizio · Jan 31, 2016

dash123 :

i would also look for a newer skylake build. the haswell is fine if it at a good selling price for a pre built gaming pc. right now there should be less then 80.00 more in cost for a skylake build as ddr4 ram is about 20.00 more then ddr3 and skylake cpu are in short supply so there more costly then haswell.

joex444 · Jan 31, 2016

TL;DR: Z97 + 4790K + H100i GTX + 32GB RAM + 120GB SSD + 980Ti + 850W PSU.

Yeah, it's good for stuff. I'm a bit concerned by the unbranded 2TB drive.

Bigj73nsb · Jan 31, 2016

Thats a good build if you ask me. But 32gigs of RAM is a bit much and alot of boards don't like all four DDR slots used up. I would cut that in half and ride with 16gigs which is still plenty

blazorthon · Jan 31, 2016

Why bother with Skylake for the very reason you mentioned? You're paying more and you won't notice a performance increase. If the prices were closer, then sure, go for the new one. But when there's as much as a $100 difference or so, there's no reason for it.

DDR4 has actually come down quite well and is almost as cheap as DDR3. The problem is that Skylake CPUs are still mostly more expensive and the motherboards are often a little more expensive too. You can get an i7-5820K based X99 build for about the same price as an i7-6700K build. You can get an i7-4790K build for about the same price as an i5-6600K build. You can get an i5-4460 build for only a little more money than an i3-6100 build.

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