Building my first gaming PC and I need help!!!!!!

David Welch

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Jul 26, 2015
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These are the components I've chosen so far, this is going to a full setup including tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse and headphones. http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/7rfkZL

Please can you advise me if this is a good choice or what would you change and why?

P.s I would like to keep it around the same price

Thanks in advance,
David
 
Solution
Reliability is the reason for changing the ssd and psu. That Kingston ssd is the most unreliable of the popular ssds, and really the same can be said for the Corsair CX series. They just aren't very good. I replaced them with high quality parts.

CTurbo

Pizza Monster
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Everything looks good but the ssd and psu


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£177.00 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£24.48 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£99.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£38.96 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Crucial BX100 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£46.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£32.40 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (£259.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Phantom 530 (White) ATX Full Tower Case (£89.51 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX TS 750W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£62.58 @ CCL Computers)
Monitor: Asus VX238H 23.0" Monitor (£138.62 @ Amazon UK)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (£26.38 @ Scan.co.uk)
Headphones: Kingston HyperX Cloud Pro Headset (£54.95 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1051.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-26 18:48 BST+0100
 

CTurbo

Pizza Monster
Moderator
Reliability is the reason for changing the ssd and psu. That Kingston ssd is the most unreliable of the popular ssds, and really the same can be said for the Corsair CX series. They just aren't very good. I replaced them with high quality parts.
 
Solution


The Corsair CX series of power supplies use poor capacitors.