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My bad it will bottleneck the 980 ti. Get an r9 390. Will be more then enough for 1080p
 
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a 980 ti would definitely be overkill for an 8350 and would bottleneck.

That said you're not going to hurt anything and what you will have is a GPU that will work now and for your next build.

BUT the other side of the coin is you could save a lot of money and just buy something better some day when you build again. Since you'll have to handicap the 980ti anyway.
 
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a 6350's a very nice chip. it will bottleneck high-end graphics but not too badly. a good pairing/cost😛erformance ratio will most likely be a GTX960 or an R9 280X or even a 380. moving up to a 390 would help a lot but that's when you might see a small, small bottleneck but you may not even notice unless you're staring at benchmarks to see if your video-card induced manhood measures up. if money's not an issue a 390 or 970 would probably give you the best results vs bottleneck conditions
 
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I'll get an i7 processor (a good one) with an r9 290x.ill later get a second one along with an upgraded monitor. Would that work?
 
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That would work too. The 980ti is faster, however to fit within the budget that combo will work well (and overall perform better than an 8350 and a 980ti).

Also in your build you should replace that EVGA PSU with the EVGA 750B2, much better quality unit.
 
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An appropriate gpu would budget 2x the cost of the cpu. That would be something like a GTX960.

A side monitor adds nothing to the load on the graphics card while gaming.
If your monitors are 1080P, you will gain little past a GTX970.

MY thoughts on the rest of the build:

1. FX-6350 is ok for what it is. But the cores are weak.
Few games can make use of more than 2-3 cores, so the extras are not much help.
If your games are sims, strategy or mmo types, buy a cpu with stronger individual core speeds.
Passmark shows fx-6300 single thread rating of 1484.
By comparison, the equally priced i3-4170 is 2140.
Changing to a 8350 gives you 8 cores, but they are individually still slow, at 1506.

And... the i3-4170 will run just fine on the stock cooler.

You really might consider doing a Skylake build for the long term.
The cheapest i5-6400 at $ 210 has a single thread rating on all 4 cores of 1927.
Again, no extra cooler is needed.

Motherboard and ram costs will be comparable.

2. A GTX970 card will only need 500w.
I would buy a better quality psu for less.
The evga is a tier 3 unit:
https://community.newegg.com/eggxpert/computer_hardware/f/135081/t/45344.aspx?Redirected=true
I would look at Seasonic for top quality.
I might buy this Seasonic s12II 620w unit for less. It will run even a GTX980ti.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151096





 
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Update...
Since you indicated you could afford a I7....
I suggest a i5-6600K if you are willing to overclock at least conservatively.
The extra hyperthreads of a i7 would go largely unused.
You will want a Z170 based motherboard. No need for fast ddr4 ram.
The Skylake "K" processors do not come with coolers.
I might suggest a modest tower cooler with a 120 or 140mm fan
Noctua makes arguably the best, perhaps $65.

My canned rant on liquid cooling:
------------------------start of rant-------------------
You buy a liquid cooler to be able to extract an extra multiplier or two out of your OC.
How much do you really need?
I do not much like all in one liquid coolers when a good air cooler like a Noctua or phanteks can do the job just as well.
A liquid cooler will be expensive, noisy, less reliable, and will not cool any better
in a well ventilated case.
Liquid cooling is really air cooling, it just puts the heat exchange in a different place.
The orientation of the radiator will cause a problem.
If you orient it to take in cool air from the outside, you will cool the cpu better, but the hot air then circulates inside the case heating up the graphics card and motherboard.
If you orient it to exhaust(which I think is better) , then your cpu cooling will be less effective because it uses pre heated case air.
And... I have read too many tales of woe when a liquid cooler leaks.
google "H100 leak"
-----------------------end of rant--------------------------

Your pc will be quieter, more reliable, and will be cooled equally well with a decent air cooler.
 
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so...how do you fit a Skylake chip (1151) on a Z97 (1150) board? :)
 
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With a skylake processor comes ddr4 memory which is very expensive. Same goes with the motherboards. I will probably do a i7 4790k with a dual 290x once the build is done. I kind of don't want water cooling, as the cooler that I've chosen seems to have very nice reviews. I'm new to this so I do not want to be doing too much overclocking because I don't want to mess anything up. Now last question. Will I be able to max a 2k monitors settings with this?
 
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With 2 290x? Yeah definitely
 
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My error... I meant Z170.

 
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I will take a look at pricing and btw read the question. I will only be using one of the 2 monitors for gaming.
 
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I was certain that was the case, but some of the text before made me winder.
The side monitor is a non issue from a gaming performance point of view.
You are good there.


 
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