Do i over spending?

[Faun]

I am gonna build this system for gaming. I might oc or not, but would like to have that as a option because i might need it in future. For GPU i'll wait the release of AMD RX 480, if its benchmarks are true or at least close to what we have seen, i'll pick one and get another later for crossfire. What buggs me most is that I can't decide on case, I am thinking between Corsair 400R, 300R(Windowed) and Carbide Spec-Alpha. 400R and Spec-Alpha same price and 300R little lower than them. In spec wise of course 400R better than others but the fact that it doesn't have window panel (provided or optional) killing me because inside of the this case will be beautiful, i would like to gaze upon it from time to time.

Parts i want

MSI Z170A Gaming M5 LGA1151 DDR4 M.2 USB 3.1 Motherboard
INTEL Core i5-6600K
COOLER MASTER Hyper 412 PWM
KINGSTON HyperX Fury 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-2666MHz CL15 Ram
KINGSTON HyperX Savage 240G 2.5'' 240GB SATA3 SSD
SEASONIC SEA-X-750 750W 80 Plus Gold 12
AOC G2460VQ6 24'' 1ms FULL HD FreeSync Monitor

Now do i overspending for gaming? Some guy i talked from a shop said me so and told me to buy i5 6600/6500, MSI H170 Gaming 3 and 200R with VS series PSU and a GTX 970.

First of all, that PSU listed in Tier List really low and i know that PSU is one of the most important parts, even if i don't do oc, i think it is still a low quality psu for that system and of course with that parts my oc option will be gone forever.

So what do you guys think?

 

[Icaraeus]

You can definitely go with i5 6500, H170, and a cheaper (not necessarily VS series) PSU, and a cheaper case, get rid of the CPU cooler (as non K CPUs come with one), and stick with RX 480. RX 480 is cheaper and faster than GTX 970 (and RX 480 can come with 8GiB GDDR5). You don't need to overclock.

 

[Blas]

Avoid the Corsair VS line of PSUs, as you indicated it's really low in the tier list, don't gamble with that 😉

Before criticizing your choice of parts, let me say they are great and well balanced, and you will be happy with them, no doubt. However, my thoughts on them are:

I would avoid crossfire: i've had 2x6970 for the last years, and while sometimes it was great. it's also given me all sorts of problems, there are games that don't play well with CF, others that scale badly, you have syncronization issues between the two cards, stuttering... I would pick the most powerful card i could pay for today, and buy a new, different card later on, replacing the old one (that you can sell second hand to recover part of the $$).

The motherboard supports PCIe M.2 drives, which are the fastest option for storage right now, way faster than SATA3 SSDs. However they are far more expensive too. So while i would recommend M.2, if you're already in the limit money-wise, SATA3 is fine. Otherwise, consider a Samsung SM951 (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269.html#p2)

RAM: apparently, and contrary to popular belief, RAM speeds do have a measurable effect on gaming performance: http://www.techspot.com/article/1171-ddr4-4000-mhz-performance/ So again, depending on your budget, you might want to consider faster RAM. If you're just gaming (or mainly gaming), 8GB are enough and you can trade the slow 16GB by a faster kit of "just" 8GB.

Again: your parts are great as they are, these are just suggestions to make them even better (at a cost!). As for the case, i always feel that's a very personal choicem so nothing to say about it. As for chaning the mobo/cpu as the guy in the store suggests, if you pick a non-K cpu you won't be able to overclock. And don't pick the Corsair VS PSU.

Hope it helps...

 

[Faun]

I can't afford PCIe M.2 ssd atm because they are crazy expensive here, for rams if i go with the system i wanna build, i can probably get Corsair DDR4 16GB(2x8) Vengeance LPX 3000MHz (CMK16GX4M2B3000C15R). Can't freesync and directx 12 solve this sync issues for cf?

 

[Icaraeus]

DirectX 12 is much harder for coding than DirectX 12 is for developers as developers have to do a lot of manual work for it, and most DX12 games don't really support multiGPU (because it's a lot of work). In DirectX 11 and older the Xfire/SLI work was done by AMD/Nvidia driver team.. can't do that in DX12.

Yes, DX12 is much lower level and much better -- but it comes at a cost of more work for devs.

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Gaming at which resolution? Which settings do you aim for? 60FPS?

 

[Faun]

At least 60, or 75 to match the monitor.

 

[Faun]

I decided that I am gonna do o/c and because of that decided to go with the build i came up with but switched some parts. The ones with '+' are the ones i bought already. What you guys think?

Intel i5 6600k
MSI Z170A Gaming 5 (+)
Corsair 16GB (2x8GB) 3000Mhz CMK16GX4M2B3000C15R
Samsung 850 Evo 250 GB (+)
Cooler Master MasterCase 5 (+)
Seasonic X-750 (+)
AOC G2460VQ6 Monitor
Cooler Master Hyper 412 PWM (+)

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Get a G.SKILL Ripjaws V 2666MHz kit.

 

[Faun]

They are the same price at here if you suggested G.Skills for the price.