Gaming PC about 1000€

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Im looking forward building a new gaming pc that it will play games with max settings and i concluded to the items below:

CPU: INTEL CORE I5-4690K 3.50GHZ LGA1150 (236€)
CPU Cooler: COOLERMASTER RR-T4-18PK-R1 HYPER T4 COOLER (26€)
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-GAMING 5 (156€)
GPU: GIGABYTE GTX760 GV-N760OC-2GD 2GB DDR5 (239€)
Ram: CORSAIR VENGEANCE 8GB (2X4GB) DDR3 1600MHZ DUAL CHANNEL KIT (100€)
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 120GB 2.5-Inch SATA III (90€)
HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL WD5000AVDS 500GB (57€)
PSU: COOLERMASTER G650M GM SERIES 650W (78€)
Case: COOLERMASTER RC-K380-KWN1 K380 BLACK (41€)
DVD Writer: LG GH24NSB0 (16€)

i want to know if the items are compatible and if u have any better suggestions. Thank you :)

 
Couple of notes

1. Try a Nocuta-NH12 SE2 instead of coolermaster. relatively same price but better quality.

2. 8 gigs of ram is simply not enough. If you want to game at max settings with alot of games you need at least 16 gigs of Ram. I would recommend G.Skill Value 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600

3. The HDD is overpriced. You can get a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM for 50$.

4. No need to get an optical drive. Noone uses DvDs anymore and all software downloads are online with a usb.

For compatibility go to pcpartpicker.com and enter all your parts in and itll tell you compatibility issues (if there are any)
 


Opinions of mine onto what Xrunner98 said:

1 i do agree the Nocuta-NH12 SE2 is built better though moves less air than the Coolermaster RR-T4-18PK-T1-HYPER T4 unit so unless you are planning on overclocking go with the Nocuta-NH12 SE2 CPU Cooler as it runs for longer endunce wise i mean and if you are building a high end PC i suspect you will want to reuse that CPU Cooler in your next build if you are into reuseing parts from the last build to reduce the cost of the next build of course

2 8GB is still enough but i will advise going with a 1x 8GB RAM Stick so in the near future when more games actually use 8GB or more you can then upgrade as if you do 16GB now your system will not preform as good as if you only have 8GB due to to much in RAM and to much RAM to go through

3 the HDD which you got is a overpriced POS either get a better quaity one or go with the Seagate one but that WD one is just not that good

4 stick with 1 optical drive as it is easier to install the OS off of disc instead of USB also slightly faster too unless you have a USB 3 USB flash drive then a USB install is faster. Then yes i rarely use my optical drive and unless you listen to CDs on your computer by listening to them with putting in the CD to listen to then taking it out and putting in another CD to listen to the OR you watch DVDs on your computer instead of streaming the movies to your computer ... the optical drive is a device with lower usage rates now than just 3~4 years ago so it probably can be taken out unless you do one or both of my examples

5 the part about pcpartpicker.com might be good if there is a version for Europe to this i am unsure but if there is you can use that and it will help alot with compatiblety and with cost as it finds the lowest costs for your parts online but not physical stores so if it is a lower cost in a physical store around you pcpartpicker.com will not find that for you.

My opinion on your computer config is it is a decent mid end computer not high end but mid end and should be able to run most games on Max except for the newest games and the bad console ports and the select games that are just poorly optimised for the PC.

It is a good computer with a couple flaws if you wanted to have it be a awesome gaming rig but to keep it under 1,000€ that was probably needed to not be there but hopefully you will upgrade it in the future as technology advances but not fast enough that this configuration will need anything besides a graphics card update and a RAM update for the next 5-7 years or more than that.

On a side note you might want to look at the PSU and decide of a better quality one is within the budget as CoolerMaster is good but not the best nor is a G650M GM Series 650W PSU so if you can upgrade it then good but as i say this it is still a very good PSU just there is much better but also much much worse than it too.