Advice with my first PC build

[Alex-T]

Hey,

I am currently in the process of acquiring parts for my first gaming PC build and even though I have some knowledge of PC's, as this is my first build, I would appreciate to have guidance and reassurance from the community. It would greatly help if you could inform me of any parts that may not be compatible with each other or even if you believe there is a better choice for one of the components. If replying to this thread, i would appreciate if you were quite knowledgeable in this area of PC's or at least quite sure with what you were saying as i want this process to go as smoothly as possible. I will only be including components and not peripherals as i am already aware of which ones I will be choosing.

Components with links follow -


Motherboard - MSI Z97 Gaming 5 - Link

Processor - i5 4690K - Link

Case - S340 Razer Edition - Link

SSD - 850 EVO 250Gb - Link

Graphics Card - I currently own the Asus GTX 750Ti but will be purchasing the MSI GTX 970 in the future so it needs to be compatible with both - 750Ti 970

PSU - I was struggling to determine which one to purchase as I am not fully aware of the wattage of the whole system together.

Ram - 16gGb Corsair Vengeance - Link


If you have made it this far, thank you for assisting me in this PC build .

p.s - Sorry for the long thread

 

[lodders]

550 to 600W is enough power.
You can save $50 and use a motherboard like mine. It works great, but you are limited to a smaller overclock.
Other components are well specified.
I prefer gigabyte or asus to MSI but only because a MSI graphics card let me down.

 

[Alex-T]

550 to 600W is enough power.
You can save $50 and use a motherboard like mine. It works great, but you are limited to a smaller overclock.
Other components are well specified.
I prefer gigabyte or asus to MSI but only because a MSI graphics card let me down.

Ok, thank you for the response! I'll take that on board

 

[Vic 40]

For a psu are the next good,going up in wattage,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/parts/compare/corsair-power-supply-cp9020091na,corsair-power-supply-cp9020092na,corsair-power-supply-cp9020093na,evga-power-supply-220g20550y1/
for a single gpu system is 550/650watt enough,looking at the price difference would the 650watt RMx be a good choice.For a build with sli would i prefer 750 watt although 650watt probably would work as well,but the 850watt is very close in price to the 750watt

Newer gpu's are coming out so keep an eye on that when looking for a new gpu,don't look at the gtx 970 alone when the time comes for replacement.

With the motherboard you choose would these imo look better and are just abit faster as well,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/G-Skill-F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR-G-Skill-8GB-PC3-14900/dp/B004U4WPZA/ref=sr_1_12?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1460822230&sr=1-12
or even
http://www.amazon.co.uk/G-Skill-F3-2400C11D-8GSR-8GB-DDR3-2400/dp/B00CKNL310/ref=sr_1_25?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1460822451&sr=1-25

With the green theme/sceme of the case is this maybe a nice looking motherboard?
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/mr/amazonuk/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz97xgameplus
would look at other ram as well in that case,something that goes nice with this,considering the window.

Other question ... why not go for the i5 6600K and a Z170 motherboard?

 

[TheDudeThatLurks]

If you have not already bought your parts, I would, similar to the above, go with a 6600K. A 6600K, for only slightly more (I believe ~£200 in the UK), you get performance that's almost on par with a 4790k. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWxncqbe1H8)

You would, however, need to swap out the motherboard with a Z170 chipset board (or at the very least a board with an 1151 socket, but you will need a Z-series board to make use of the overclocking functionalities of the chip), and potentially swap out the RAM for DDR4, depending on whether the board supports DDR3 or 4. (I'd advise 4, 3 isn't officially supported) You can use PCPartPicker (http://uk.pcpartpicker.com), to filter incompatible components.

A decent 500-650W should do absolutely fine in terms of power (something like EVGA's SuperNOVA G2/GS/GQ, Seasonic's G or Corsair's RMx series should do fine), and will be able to handle almost any single-card, even with a decent overclock).