Trying to Decide on the Best Build

jimono123

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Hey Tom's Hardware Folks,

I've been looking at building a new PC for use as a Steam focused gaming rig that will be almost exlusively hooked up to my 4K TV. I want to keep the form factor small and sleek since it will be in my living room so aesthetics are important. I've put together these parts so far but I'm concerned with some of the dimensions and making sure everything fits alright into the case. I really like the form factor of the AZZA CSAZ-103 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811517029) and the SilverStone RAVEN Series RVZ01B (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163252) so I'm heavily leaning to a build focused around either of those cases. I don't necesarily have plans to overclock, but I would like to have the option to if I want to at some point down the road, even if it's just a slight overclock. I wanted to get people's thoughts and ideas though about which pieces might be a better fit or if I'm completely missing something in this build.

Either:

-SilverStone RAVEN Series RVZ01B (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163252)

Or:

-AZZA CSAZ-103 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811517029)

And:
-SILVERSTONE SFX Series SX600-G (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256109)
-Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1150 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117369)
-EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 06G-P4-4995-KR 6GB SC+ (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487142)
-G.SKILL TridentX Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231589)
-SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 1TB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA12K2GN1593)
-WD Black 4TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236622)
-Panasonic UJ240 6x Blu-ray Drive BD-RE/8x DVD±RW (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA8BU3CN9825)
-Dynatron K5 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4M53ZV6371)

Are there any big gaping holes in my build that I'm missing? Is a 600W power supply going to be sufficient for all this? Is all of this going to fit into either of the two cases? Are there other things I'm missing?

Thanks for everyone's help on this.

Brian
 
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CPU cooler is woefully inadequate. Lists 77W TDP, i7-4790k is a stock 88W and is intended for overclocking (easily 150W cooler needed, preferably 200W)

In a small case like that I would probably go for a reference 980ti like this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1N83ZE6519

It will help exhaust the heat out of the case. (Obviously shop around for a better price, retail stores tend to carry them as well)

Power supply is enough.

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CPU cooler is woefully inadequate. Lists 77W TDP, i7-4790k is a stock 88W and is intended for overclocking (easily 150W cooler needed, preferably 200W)

In a small case like that I would probably go for a reference 980ti like this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1N83ZE6519

It will help exhaust the heat out of the case. (Obviously shop around for a better price, retail stores tend to carry them as well)

Power supply is enough.
 
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Here is a better CPU cooler option:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4UF1H80890&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

They claim an 140W TDP and are a new, but reputable company.
 

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Do you think the size of that heatsink is going to be too large for the case limitations though? That's part of the reason I chose the one I did originally because it looked to be a really low profile heatsink.
 
Build using skylake
Use an ATX power supply and case
The cpu cooler is probably worse than the included intel model
for fast hard drive access use a samsung 950 M.2 drive of about 250 gig , and a mechanical drive to add storage
I would wait a few weeks for new graphics cards from nVidia and AMD . The gtx 980ti is about to become very obsolete
The raven case will cause you problems with heat . Probably lots of problems . The azza is cheap junk