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I have 2 questions:

Why are you buying a Xeon CPU instead of i5 or 7 ? A Xeon won't get you a lot of speed over an i7 as far as photoshop, but will limit overclocking if you want to down the road. For Gaming an I5 is good too. Your rig, just curious.

Why not a full ATX board, micro ATX limits you in the future if you want to add things that take slots; also very cramped when plugging stuff in ?
 
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Micro atx because I plan on switching the case to a Matx later and Xeon because they are unoverclockable i7's without a dedicated GPU so they are very good for the price and beat i5's at stock clocks. And I also don't oc so i don't want a k CPU :)
 
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Cool...sounds like you know what you're doing. I think it'll be "4good" at a little of everything and not awesome at something yet poor at the other.

Seems good although power supply purist will give you crap, but I think they get overly worked up sometimes.
 
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The Build looks fine except for the garbage motherboard.

In the build as listed, the largest voltage regulation device in terms of current handling is on the GPU, the second largest voltage regulation device in terms of current handling is the motherboard, and the 3rd largest, is the PSU.

You've probably already been clued in on the importance of PSU quality but have failed to take into consideration that voltage regulation does not end at the PSU. If you want the build to have good quality power regulation with comfortable headroom throughout, then you'll need a more robust motherboard. The Gigabyte B85M D3H is compatible out of the box with Haswell Refresh E3's like the 1241 and is built really well for the money.

XFX PSU's are all good quality units OEM'd by Seasonic, so there's no reason for any PSU "purist" to give you any crap for that selection. Not sure what royal is on about there.
 
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good overall, change your PSU too at least 600W+ if possible since the recommended wattage for R9-290 is 750W as stated at Sapphire's website. your cpu will be under heavy load when you are rendering/multitasking/gaming at the same time and the same goes for the GPU hence it is safer to go with at least 600W as the GPU draws quite a lot of wattage under heavy load
 
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But he's not using AMD, so chances are he won't melt his MOSFETs ...😛

Seriously though mdocod seems to know his stuff, so consider what he says.



 
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The peak Furmark + Prime95 torture test power dissipation of an E3-1241 V3 + R9 280X and typical system configuration (RAM/drives/fans/chipset/ethernet/sound/USB/peripherals etc) would never exceed 400W. A carefully chosen 450-550W PSU from Seasonic/ATNG/SuperFlower/Delta/FSP/CWT and the many brands that sell them will power this rig just fine.
 
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@ mdocod...not giving you flack if they are seasonic, that is good then. Some on here (not you like to hate on all the teir 3 units and just recommend Seasonic or EVGA, when a worse quality unit would still work fine.

Not gonna name specific names because that's not cool.
 
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well the tier 3 PSUs are still fine PSUs, im using one of the tier 3 psu without any prob at all, my fren is still using the Silverstone strider essential 500W without any problem after 4 years + of usage , budget is everything
 
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Yep, I had a 35 dollar Kingwin 300 watt in 2005, and it never failed me. Sometimes you get a good cheap one. I still like kingwin because of that :)



 
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Yeah, plus Superflower sounds so weird/cool for a PSU too bad no Superflower CPUs). They used to have this really cool PSU with BNC type ends on the supply side of the cables and the cables were lit up all different colors.

*maybe I just like Kingwin for the King part ...hehe.*



 
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