Just need to make sure everything works together

ColePi · Jul 26, 2016

I'm fairly certain everything is compatible with each other, but I worry about all the parts fitting in the case and I'd like help verifying my build since I don't trust myself and this is my first time attempting to dramatically upgrade my pc to the point where the only old parts are the ram and hard drive. I'm also open to suggestions if there are any parts that would improve performance. I'm not looking to overclock at all though.

GPU - MSI GTX 1060 Armor 6G OC
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127964

PSU - Corsair RMx 750X
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139142

Motherboard - MSI Z97S Krait Edition
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130801

CPU - Intel i5-4690K Devil's Canyon
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117372

Case - Corsair Carbide Air 540
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16811139032

As I mentioned earlier I didn't include ram and storage since I just plan on moving them.
The ram are a couple sticks of corsair vengeance whilst the memory is just some random HDD that came with my dumb pc I got from best buy. I still feel like I'm missing something though, so go ahead and chime in if I forgot something obvious or if you can strongly recommend a cpu cooler, etc.

Isokolon · Jul 26, 2016

A 620/650W PSU should do just fine.
Personally I don't like Intel stock coolers as they are louder than it's necessary. Scythe Mugens have quite a good price/performance ratio, Noctua if you got the cash.
If your room is really hot you might wanna add 1 additional case fan.

If.youre not over-clocking don't go K on the CPU, the 4690 is just as good and cheaper.

azaran · Jul 26, 2016

Agreed, the cooler on the Haswell coolers is very loud, and frankly aren't very good. An after market like a Cryorig H7 cools very well, is quiet and doesn't overlap any RAM slots like a lot of tower coolers do. The Air 540 has a ton of room so it should be easy to build in so good choice there.

One big question tho, is there a reason you're building up a Haswell system instead of a Skylake?

azaran · Jul 26, 2016

And for the hell of it, threw together a price mock up of a skylake vs your proposed system. Didn't know what RAM or hard drive you were working from so just assumed 8Gb and 500GB.
Your system
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($123.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Western Digital Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB ARMOR OC Video Card ($269.99)
Case: Corsair Air 540 ATX Mid Tower Case ($139.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair RMx 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $873.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-26 22:17 EDT-0400

Went with H170 instead of Z series since you're not OCing or running SLI. Dropped the PSU down since a 650w is plenty and would bring down the price of needing new RAM. Obviously you could add on to it, SSD for snappy boot and application startup, aftermarket CPU cooler, etc.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($204.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus H170 PRO GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($122.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB ARMOR OC Video Card ($269.99)
Case: Corsair Air 540 ATX Mid Tower Case ($139.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 650W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($85.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $863.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-26 22:15 EDT-0400

ColePi · Jul 26, 2016

I had someone else refer me to skylake, they also helped me with a few other things so now I'm looking at
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700
Motherboard: MSI Z170A Krait Gaming 3X
Memory: HyperX FURY 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM
GPU: MSI GTX 1060 Armor OC
Case: Air 540
PSU: EVGA 210-GQ-0650-V1 650W or EVGA 220-G2-0650-Y1 80 PLUS GOLD 650W
On the psu pcpartpicker didn't list the GQ as an option so I don't know if it just wasn't showing up or if it thought there was a problem with it.
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/z3s8M8

Isokolon · Jul 27, 2016

If the EVGA isn't available or compatible go.for an XFX as they are manufactured by Seasonic and are excellent PSUs. A TS 650 Gold is usually relatively cheap to obtain a 650 pro bronze will get the job done just as good.

Of course upgrading to Skylake is an option although the performance gain as of now is very little + you need new RAM.
If.you go Skylake and don't plan on over-clocking save the money Z170 boards cost and get an H170 board.

azaran · Jul 27, 2016

ColePi :

If you can go G2, go for it. The GQ and GS are also good choices. Partpicker has been kind of weird with showing PSU's lately so look at the major vendors (newegg, amazon, microcenter, etc) manually and see what they offer. Your case selection has more than ample room for the PSU size so there's no reason Partpicker should be restricting the choices. Also look at the P2 series, for some reason the 80+ Platinum have been less than the G2s this week. For a good list of PSU tiers and who makes them, check out this forum.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

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