Black Friday this week; please help with my build. Thanks! :D

Namruso

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Looking to purchase components and build a computer for mainly gaming and some solidworks. I understand solidworks is optimized on a workstation gpu, but since I'm gonna be prioritizing gaming, I'm looking to push the cpu to a hyper threaded i7 4790k (Haswell) and possibly GTX 960 (thoughts?).

With Black Friday this week, I was wondering if anyone could help me think of a build to go around this. I want my budget to stay right around $850 if that's possible. I'm willing to go a little above that if it's justified. Mahalo in advance.

Sean
 
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This is quite a nice build for the money, parts you could change are the mobo for a Z97 and a XPU/cooler combo (4790k and a decent cooler), the graphics card could flex too if you find a different 390 or a 970 cheaper.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($79.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal...

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This is quite a nice build for the money, parts you could change are the mobo for a Z97 and a XPU/cooler combo (4790k and a decent cooler), the graphics card could flex too if you find a different 390 or a 970 cheaper.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($79.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 390 8GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($259.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Thermaltake Core V21 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $899.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-24 04:31 EST-0500
 
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