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Hi people I'm very very new to this PC building process, I'm a console gamer at the minute but I fancy getting into the PC side of things. The components I have been looking at are an I7 devils canyon processor, Asus ROG mother board (maximus vii hero) but seems be for solely overclocking rather than actual gaming, or a Asus Z97 deluxe, a Asus graphics card this new STRIX GTX780 OC 6GD5 (keep getting told to go for 4gb graphics but not much choice so thought might as well future proof a bit ?) 8 gb of corsair ram, corsair CPU cooler h75, corsair graphite 760t case and a corsair rm series power unit. I'm a bit stuck for hard drives to look at and optical drives and if there's much more I missed other than operating system and want to keep it air cooled other than CPU cooler to begin with so don't know If should add a fan or 2 more and want to keep it mostly Asus and corsair as they keep getting recommended by friends thoughts and advice please 🙂
 
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Well, are you trying to build an extremely powerful PC, or just one to match your console?

I mean, a PC to match the PS3 or 360 can be built for $400, as the last gen consoles are running most games on low settings at 30 fps now.
A PC to match the XBox One or PS4 can be built for $600, as the current gen consoles are running games on high-ish settings at 30-60 fps.
A PC to run every game on ultra settings at 60 fps can be built for $1000.

The parts you've been looking at would be the equivalent of 3 PS4s. The parts are all high quality, of course, and great if you can afford them.

For HDDs, people typically recommend a 1TB Western Digital Blue, but apparently the 1TB Western Digital Black is faster. Since you appear to be spending a...
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Well, are you trying to build an extremely powerful PC, or just one to match your console?

I mean, a PC to match the PS3 or 360 can be built for $400, as the last gen consoles are running most games on low settings at 30 fps now.
A PC to match the XBox One or PS4 can be built for $600, as the current gen consoles are running games on high-ish settings at 30-60 fps.
A PC to run every game on ultra settings at 60 fps can be built for $1000.

The parts you've been looking at would be the equivalent of 3 PS4s. The parts are all high quality, of course, and great if you can afford them.

For HDDs, people typically recommend a 1TB Western Digital Blue, but apparently the 1TB Western Digital Black is faster. Since you appear to be spending a lot of money, you may be better off with an HDD and an SSD, rather than just an HDD.

Optical drives are simple. A typical one costs $20 and really isn't much different from a more expensive version.
Blu-ray drives are more expensive, and maybe not worth it if you already have a blu-ray player of any kind.
 
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What you want is pretty much like that. Also, the strix is kinda silly since it is just a GPU with a fan that spins when high temps kick in, most GPUs are relatively silent in idle

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/G92BhM
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/G92BhM/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($339.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($209.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($88.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($84.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($88.97 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 780 3GB DirectCU II Video Card ($478.80 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 760T Black ATX Full Tower Case ($159.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: Antec TruePower Classic 650W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($91.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B3ST/BLK/G/AS DVD/CD Writer ($21.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (32/64-bit) ($104.29 @ NCIX US)
Total: $1734.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-16 18:42 EDT-0400

The Noctua air cooler costs the same as the h75 and performs better as many reviews has stated.

As you can see, its kinda costy changing to PC gaming.
 
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By the way should probably add I'm a Brit! Don't mind spending the money now as long as I'm not upgrading everything every 6 months to keep up with needs and musts as new games come out, and won't be brought in one lump will build as a small project over a couple of months! I'm trying to blow the PS4 out of the water ( my current console), but yeah was thinking of some where near ultra setting on fps's and have a love of strategy games so some idea
 
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Only other thing I would ask is the ROG mars or Poseidon worth a look? And how does the 2 hard drives work together, the 1tb for saving stuff and the ssd for running of systems? And generally RTS strategies

 
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Yup, that is the idea. SSD for OS and light apps + room for some games or heavy software and the HDD for general storage and geames, etc.

The MARS is a dual GTX 760, think of a lite version of the AMD 295x2 that uses the same dual chip config. The poseidon has the characteristic of being capable of using both the air cooling and a custom watercooling system attached. The mars is stated to perform at least a 17% faster than the Titan black, so over a 780ti is no brainer. There is also the ROG Matrix GTX780ti and so on.
 
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Actually, it's not quite as simple as the Mars having better performance than a Titan or 780 TI. Some games scale badly with SLI, so dual cards can have stutter and unexpectedly low performance in some games. Immediate examples I can think of that don't run as well as expected with two cards are Skyrim and Watchdogs. Keep that in mind as you're choosing the video card.
 
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Thanks guys will look into it all and go from there but will probably go with the strix 6gb graphics 🙂 just to have to extra few gbs and looking at a few reviews and things
 
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