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Thanks a lot to both for your comments and advice. I've reduced the budget on the HDD, the RAM and MoBo, and kept the i5. As far as the video card is concerned, I'm impressed with the Sapphire Nitro R9 380 with 4 GB DDR5. Does it look like a good price/perf ratio and good mid/long term...

If I downgrade the RAM to 1600, isn't the Asus Z97-A then also overkill ? I chose it mainly for the memory frequency compatibility and it features Optical SPIF, M.2, Thunderbolt readiness and probably other things I don't need. I may then grab another 50-70 EUR here.

Suggestion: look into Tom's Hardware > Charts > 2015 VGA Perf Charts and select the game benchmark to what is most relevant to you (filtered by display resolution). The corresponding chart lists by descending fps ranking the benchmarked video cards : find yours and you'll see how many fps you...

I'm close to build a new computer namely for gaming and running vbox guests. I was going for : - Asus Z97-A LGA 1150 ATX - Intel i5-4690 3.5 GHz - G.Kill Sniper 4 x 4GB DDR3 2133 - Crucial BX100 500 GB SSD - Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 7200 RPM - Arctic Freezer 7 PRO Rev 2 I will be re-using...

More simply speaking, how can you effectively enable 2133 MHz RAM on a MB claiming to rise up to 3200 MHz clocking when the memory type featured by the cpu is limited to 1333/1600, as it seems to be the case for the vast herd of intel i5/i7 cpu's ? (if you exclude the very few i7 at the top of...

Hi All, I'm considering building a new upper-mid-range computer for mixed use (incl gaming). I thought settling for an i5 of the 4590 or 4690 type as their base clock speed is starting at 3.5 or 3.6 GHz and would chose the Asus Z97 type of motherboard (socket compliant), as they accept RAM...