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Asking opinions on a PC i'm planning on building

Immunei

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Hello, I was wondering what people thought on this PC specs this is mainly for gaming

No specific games I play a lot of different games
. Corsair Carbide Spec-01 Red LED Mid-Tower Gaming Case
. Defaul case fans (Not sure if I should change)
. INTEL® Core™ i5-6600 Quad Core 3.30 GHz
. Corsair Hydro Series H55 Quiet Liquid Cooling system w/ 120mm Radiator
. Gigabyte Z170-HD3 INTEL Z170 Chipset, ATX Mainboard //
// MSI Z170-A Krait Gaming INTEL Z170 Chipset, ATX Mainboard (Was thinking about getting this one instead its a bit more in price)
. HyperX Fury w/Heat Spreader 8GB (2x4GB)
. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card (Single Card)
. Corsair 650 Watts VS650 Gaming Power Supply (Also might change this)
. 1TB Seagate Hybrid Gen3 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s Cache 5400RPM SSHD
. Standard high definiton on-board 7.1 Audion

First post on here so sorry if it's a mess at all and if I missed anything message me, any help would be great.

Thanks
Immunei
 
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VS PSU is not very good. Stick with Tier 1 or Tier 2 units. www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
That first Z170 board is pointless with a locked CPU, and it does not support SLI either. The other one is ok, if you are wanting to run dual GPU someday. Switch to an H170 board. R9 380 4gb is similar in price, normally, and is a bit faster. I would consider sticking with a Haswell i5, with an H97 board. Those kinds of savings might be enough to get you an GTX 970, or an R9 390.
Depending on the gaming resolutions you are playing at, the "weakest" part (and it's still a solid one) is the video card. I would go with either a 970 or a r9 390 at least (the 970 for 1080p gaming, the 390 for higher due to it's 8gb of memory).

Just my 2 cents.
 
Hi Immunei, and welcome to the Tom's Hardware Forums!

You could certainly choose a better power supply unit, but before we can recommend the best one for you specifically we would need to know what budget range you're working in.

A wonderful site to use while picking parts for a new PC is www.pcpartpicker.com, and I highly recommend taking a look at it while you're figuring out exactly what you want for your new build.

 
VS PSU is not very good. Stick with Tier 1 or Tier 2 units. www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
That first Z170 board is pointless with a locked CPU, and it does not support SLI either. The other one is ok, if you are wanting to run dual GPU someday. Switch to an H170 board. R9 380 4gb is similar in price, normally, and is a bit faster. I would consider sticking with a Haswell i5, with an H97 board. Those kinds of savings might be enough to get you an GTX 970, or an R9 390.
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($174.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Elite Plus 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($84.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($52.33 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card ($318.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($47.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $871.04
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-23 12:17 EDT-0400

If you can spend more, you can go to skylake z170 motherboard/dd4/i5-6600k. However, the computer above will improve just as well except in cpu bound games.