Building My First Rig

[DeJay126]

I am in the process of building my first gaming rig. With the Xbox One and PS4 coming out soon, I decided to just build a PC rather than spend money on a limited console! This has definitely been a learning experience! I just ordered all of my components besides the video card. Here is a list of what I have.

Gigabyte UD5H-Z87
4670k i5
Thermaltake 700 psu
Gskill Ripjaws 8 gig 2400 (2x4gb)
Kingston v300 120gig SSD
LG DVD Burner
Sentey Black Box v2.2

I am trying to decide between the 7970 and the r9 280x. I'm not that worried about the 3 free games with the 7970 because they aren't really games I would want to play anyway. I'm hoping that this sytem can run BF4 with ultra settings, and basically anything else I throw at it on ultra. Let me know what you guys think of this build. I think I chose pretty good components for my first build.
Once I overclock (when I get more comfortable with the process) I am going to get the Corsair H80.

 

[Blaise170]

The two cards are pretty much the same, so I'd go with whichever card is cheaper for you.

 

[DeJay126]

Yeah, that's what I've been seeing from all of the reviews on them. The r9 280x that I picked out runs at 1500, so that's probably what I'm going to go with. Do you think this build will handle games relatively easy on ultra?

 

[Blaise170]

Here's the 3DMark scores compared to relative cards:

Here's a Crysis 2 benchmark:

And here's a Metro 2033 benchmark:

 

[DeJay126]

Awesome, thanks for that!