$1,000 Gaming Machine Build Help

[baronkvothe]

For my first build, I'm gunning for a $1,000 high end gaming machine. I hope this build will be relevant for a few years and be able to handle some upgrades as they become available (or come down in price). If it could have VR, that would be a huge bonus as well.

This is the part list I came up with, but I'm hoping the experts can help me refine it:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($224.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($87.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($62.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($87.98 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($309.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($74.88 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($87.95 @ OutletPC)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter ($36.88 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1073.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-15 13:35 EDT-0400

 

[SPAWN of II]

For my first build, I'm gunning for a $1,000 high end gaming machine. I hope this build will be relevant for a few years and be able to handle some upgrades as they become available (or come down in price). If it could have VR, that would be a huge bonus as well.

This is the part list I came up with, but I'm hoping the experts can help me refine it:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($224.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($87.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($62.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($87.98 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($309.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($74.88 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($87.95 @ OutletPC)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter ($36.88 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1073.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-15 13:35 EDT-0400

You want a better Power Supply, the one you have chosen is not great quality, other than that everything looks great, If you want to stay on your $1000 budget you can swap down to 8gb and then get a better PSU such as one of these in Tier one or two. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

 

[RCFProd]

It's 2016, you can afford Skylake and DDR4 memory. You'd be missing out on the newest technology if you didn't!

Reference:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($97.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($84.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($87.98 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($317.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Phanteks ECLIPSE P400 ATX Mid Tower Case ($74.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($89.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $1063.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-15 13:59 EDT-0400

 

[lakimens]

You need DDR4, because it's new and if you want to upgrade your RAM, in a few years DDR3 will be twice or more expensive than DDR4.
You need to get the newest gen CPU, which is 6th, now I put the i5-6600, because your budget is tight, but if you want to overclock you can get the 6600k and an aftermarket cooler, because it doesn't come with a stock one.
The PSU is not a good quality as mentioned by SPAWN, the one I put is Tier 1 on the list of PSU on tom's hardware.
Your PC needs about 350W, so 650W is enough, even if you slam another GPU in there, it will do the job.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($215.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($99.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($87.98 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($309.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($87.95 @ OutletPC)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter ($36.88 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1083.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-15 13:55 EDT-0400

 

[ohyes247]

Most of the new stuff on Skylake is niche anyway, you aren't missing out on much, Haswell is still the better option price to performance wise, especially considering there isn't much of a difference performance wise.

Save the money, I'd say swap out the CX 750 for a EVGA 750 B2, and swap the 970 for a 390, Better performing card and more Vram.

Edit: Here you would get the best for your money with this build, overclock the 4690k since you got a board that can handle it along with a quality psu, and have a better gpu that will age better and wont suffer from crippled vram a couple years from now when games starting using insane textures and hog up vram. Sure you lose DDR4 with Skylake and all the little niche things, But honestly, the difference between DDR3 and DDR4 isn't even that much and you probably wouldn't use most of the new features Skylake has.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($224.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($28.03 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($123.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($36.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: OCZ Trion 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($64.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 390 8GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($304.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design FD-CA-CORE-3500-BL-W ATX Mid Tower Case ($54.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($89.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $1058.73
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-15 14:10 EDT-0400