jason1297 :
I'm saving up for my first gaming PC and am considering the following parts:
-intel i5 4460 or 4690k
-msi radeon r9 380 4gb
-hyperX fury 2x4gb 1600MHz ddr3 RAM
-WD caviar blue 1tb
-Kingston 120gb SSD (bought)
-Corsair carbide spec m2 case (bought)
-Samsung DVD drive (bought)
-Corsair CX-600M PSU
-Tplink tl-wdn800 n900 wireless PCI E adapter
-3 120mm fans
I have a few questions about the build:
-Should I go with the i5 4460 or 4690k? Is there a major difference?
-The 1600mHz ram is the same price as the 1866mHz. If I buy the higher one and the motherboard only takes 1600, do I have a problem?
-Which motherboard would be best? I'm not really looking to pay much, but I want a decnet one.
RCFProd :
For Intel Haswell:
Go with DDR3-2133 or 2400 if you'll play Fallout 4, GTA V, Far Cry Primal, Assassin's Creed Syndicate or any other similar modern open-world game. They use high speed RAM very effectively and grand you an additional ~10 fps suprisingly. So obviously it is worth it. You need a Z97 board for DDR3-1600+, so It's recommended over H97. I'd pair it with the 4690k.
However can you not afford Skylake? i5-6400 + ASRock B150 Gaming Hyper will let you OC both the CPU and memory.
I've got an i5 4440/R9 390X rig and it runs games great with 16GB of 1600Mhz RAM on an H97 motherboard; you'd get far more out of a better GPU than CPU or RAM speed here.
I have another rig running a 4770K/390X and the differences are negligible as far as CPU is concerned for the vast majority of games; like 1-5 FPS on average, with the exception of Rome 2 on Max settings where the 4770K pulled 46FPS vs the 29FPS of the 4440, but not that big a deal in that kind of game imo. Shadow of Mordor performance was exactly the same between the two, same for Attila Total War. In Dying Light and Shogun 2 the 4440 actually squeaked ahead of the 4770K by a couple of FPS. If I had to choose budget wise between a 4690K or a 4460 vs a better GPU, I would get a better GPU. The difference here between a lowly 4570S and a 4690K equipped with the same GPU is so negligible as to not be noticeable in game http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1368?vs=1261. As to FO4 with my 4440/390X I get 40-50FPS @3200x1800 VSR with a mix of ultra/high and draw distances maxed, good enough for me. If you can bump up to a 390/390X I would do that. That being said the i5 6500 should be plenty and a hair cheaper than haswell/refresh at this point; keep in mind that I only buy from amazon and newegg myself as I've had very good experiences with both. with that in mind here are the options I would recommend taking into consideration what you listed as bought and adding the Operating system:
Option 1 with R9 380:
[PCPartPicker part list](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/JXkTvK) / [Price breakdown by merchant](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/JXkTvK/by_merchant/)
Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
**CPU** | [Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80662i56500) | $194.99 @ Newegg
**Motherboard** | [Gigabyte GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gah110ma) | $41.38 @ Newegg
**Memory** | [G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f42133c15d16gvr) | $56.99 @ Newegg
**Storage** | [Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/kingston-internal-hard-drive-shfs37a120g) | Purchased For $0.00
**Storage** | [Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st1000dm003) | $47.73 @ Amazon
**Video Card** | [XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r9380p4255) | $189.99 @ Newegg
**Case** | [Corsair Carbide SPEC-M2 MicroATX Mid Tower Case](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-case-cc9011087ww) | Purchased For $0.00
**Power Supply** | [XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-power-supply-p1550sxxb9) | $66.98 @ Newegg
**Optical Drive** | [Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-optical-drive-sh224dbbebe) | Purchased For $0.00
**Operating System** | [Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/microsoft-os-kw900140) | $86.86 @ Amazon
**Wireless Network Adapter** | [TP-Link TL-WN881ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/tp-link-wireless-network-card-tlwn881nd) | $18.97 @ Amazon
**Case Fan** | [Kingwin CF-012LBW 40.0 CFM 120mm Fan](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/kingwin-case-fan-cf012lbw) | $5.99 @ Amazon
**Case Fan** | [Kingwin CF-012LBW 40.0 CFM 120mm Fan](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/kingwin-case-fan-cf012lbw) | $5.99 @ Amazon
**Case Fan** | [Kingwin CF-012LBW 40.0 CFM 120mm Fan](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/kingwin-case-fan-cf012lbw) | $5.99 @ Amazon
| *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |
| **Total** | **$721.86**
| Generated by [PCPartPicker](http://pcpartpicker.com) 2016-04-01 04:30 EDT-0400 |
or with an R9 390
[PCPartPicker part list](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tFsJFT) / [Price breakdown by merchant](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tFsJFT/by_merchant/)
Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
**CPU** | [Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80662i56500) | $194.99 @ Newegg
**Motherboard** | [Gigabyte GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gah110ma) | $41.38 @ Newegg
**Memory** | [G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f42133c15d16gvr) | $56.99 @ Newegg
**Storage** | [Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/kingston-internal-hard-drive-shfs37a120g) | Purchased For $0.00
**Storage** | [Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st1000dm003) | $47.73 @ Amazon
**Video Card** | [XFX Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r9390p8bd6) | $319.99 @ Amazon
**Case** | [Corsair Carbide SPEC-M2 MicroATX Mid Tower Case](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-case-cc9011087ww) | Purchased For $0.00
**Power Supply** | [XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-power-supply-p1550sxxb9) | $66.98 @ Newegg
**Optical Drive** | [Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-optical-drive-sh224dbbebe) | Purchased For $0.00
**Operating System** | [Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/microsoft-os-kw900140) | $86.86 @ Amazon
**Wireless Network Adapter** | [TP-Link TL-WN881ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/tp-link-wireless-network-card-tlwn881nd) | $18.97 @ Amazon
**Case Fan** | [Kingwin CF-012LBW 40.0 CFM 120mm Fan](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/kingwin-case-fan-cf012lbw) | $5.99 @ Amazon
**Case Fan** | [Kingwin CF-012LBW 40.0 CFM 120mm Fan](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/kingwin-case-fan-cf012lbw) | $5.99 @ Amazon
**Case Fan** | [Kingwin CF-012LBW 40.0 CFM 120mm Fan](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/kingwin-case-fan-cf012lbw) | $5.99 @ Amazon
| *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |
| **Total** | **$851.86**
| Generated by [PCPartPicker](http://pcpartpicker.com) 2016-04-01 04:32 EDT-0400 |
don't be fooled by the overclocking bits, in action it hardly makes a difference (if you want to do it for fun then that's a different story), see here for the ancient Bloomfield i7 965 @3.65Ghz keeping pace with a 6700K @4.7Ghz
http://www.maximumpc.com/bloomfield-takes-on-skylake/#page-2 ; note also that the Skylake systems here are running DDR4 3000 and the i7 965 is still nipping at their heels with its DDR3 1333Mhz RAM in a demanding open world game, The Witcher 3.