Building new PC. Need opinions.

M4vo

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Hi, i am building new PC and i need feedback about it. I will use it mainly for games. Budget <= 1300$


  • ■ GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
    ■GIGABYTE GV-N970G1 GAMING-4GD GeForce GTX 970 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card
    ■Intel Core i5-4690K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 3.5GHz LGA 1150 Desktop Processor BX80646I54690K
    ■Corsair Carbide Series 300R Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
    ■CORSAIR CXM series CX750M 750W ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS ■BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
    ■CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop ■Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B
    ■Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive
    ■Western Digital Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"

Will it all work well?
 
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It'll work very well. That's a good build.

While the Corsair CX series power supplies are "adequate", you can find much better for the price. Go with anything from Seasonic, XFX or EVGA.

Will you be doing an SLI setup sometime down the road? Is that the reason for the 750 watt PSU?
 
Thanks for so fast answers. Yes i will SLI in future. About picking PSU i am limited to only those aviable on newegg. Can you show me one that would be better choice? And i have forgot to ask about good CPU cooling.
 
Corsair isn't always crap, it depends on the model and the series as they use more than 1 OEM afaik. CWT builds good units as does seasonic on the OEM front.



 
@MV40 I'd say for air cooling a good Cooler Master like the T4 is sufficient even for overclocking. You can always go water if you want to push it more, but air won't leak and is quieter.

Also from experience, 256 for an SSD is kinda small if you game a lot or are getting the latest games. You should ideally leave some of the drive blank for 2 reasons.

1. overprovisioning - you need to leave some empty space for bad data to be moved and replaced as well as wear leveling.
2. SSDs tend to slow up as they fill in general, especially with NTFS as the file system. They take longer to complete the TRIM command (return space marked unused to a ready state basically - simple answer)

so with 10 to 20 percent blank space and games that can take 40 gb a pop plus Windows 20-40 gb, that 256 shrinks fast. If you keep all your stuff on the HDD and just the OS on the SSD it doesent really give you a lot of benefit because your loading off the "slow" drive anyhow (as far as games, not videos and such)

Just my 2 cents. Overall that build looks quite nice. :)
 
You certainly can do that; One good reason to NOT stick with it however is QUIETNESS, the 120mm tower coolers are quite a bit quieter than the stock fan (if that sort of thing would bother you). It'll matter more depending where the computer is too and what case you pick, but the smaller fans tend to drive me nuts.



 


- CX/CS line is horrible
- RM line has some issue that I don't remember
- AX Line is overprices with trash software...\
- TX line is decent
- HX line is also decent

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really nice build!
 
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