Is My Build good for a $1400 Budget?

[SirOmar]

I plan to do gaming and video editing I also plan to upgrade to 32gb of ram and additional hdd? please leave your suggestion and opinions

CPU: Intel i7 4790k
Mobo: Msi z97s sli plus
RAM: hyperx fury 16gb 8x2 (1600 ddr3 240 pin)
GPU: Nvdia Geforce gtx 970 sc acx 2.0
CPU Cooler: Corsair h100i extreme
HDD/SSD: WD BLACK 1TB & Crucial mx100 256Gb
OPTICAL DRIVE: Lg Black Bluray drive
PSU: Corsiar CX750m 750W
OS: Windows 8.1 64 bit
CASE: Corsair 450d

 

[jayvis]

is it $1400 pc without gtx 970 sli??????

 

[SirOmar]

is it $1400 pc without gtx 970 sli??????

I only plan to do gaming on 1080p is one gtx 970 sufficient?

 

[jayvis]

gtx 970 is more than enough

 

[JohnKau]

Personally I would get a 850W PSU for more overclocking and upgrading headroom if I wanted to run two GTX 970 on SLI. But if you are running only one, the 750W PSU would definitely suffice.

For gaming at 1080p you can get around 70 fps on BF4 at 1080p with just one GTX 970 at stock speed. A second one isn't really all that necessary. You could also simply get the Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970 instead of the EVGA one you have currently selected. It costs a little bit more but will allow you to overclock the GTX 970 a bit more as well. The difference won't be very significant of course.

For video editing you really want to look at the number of CUDA cores on the GPU. The GTX 980 has about 30% more CUDA cores so that is one option. SLI works too but it doesn't scale 1 to 1 for video editing, so two GTX 970s does not mean you get the power of 2x CUDA cores. How well it scales depends on what video editing platform you are using and whether it even supports SLI.

32 GB of RAM will definitely be good for video editing so go for it if you can afford it. Ram speed isn't as important for gaming but for video editing there might be some noticeable benefits.

 

[SirOmar]

gtx 970 is more than enough

Personally I would get a 850W PSU for more overclocking and upgrading headroom if I wanted to run two GTX 970 on SLI. But if you are running only one, the 750W PSU would definitely suffice.

For gaming at 1080p you can get around 70 fps on BF4 at 1080p with just one GTX 970 at stock speed. A second one isn't really all that necessary. You could also simply get the Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970 instead of the EVGA one you have currently selected. It costs a little bit more but will allow you to overclock the GTX 970 a bit more as well. The difference won't be very significant of course.

For video editing you really want to look at the number of CUDA cores on the GPU. The GTX 980 has about 30% more CUDA cores so that is one option. SLI works too but it doesn't scale 1 to 1 for video editing, so two GTX 970s does not mean you get the power of 2x CUDA cores. How well it scales depends on what video editing platform you are using and whether it even supports SLI.

32 GB of RAM will definitely be good for video editing so go for it if you can afford it. Ram speed isn't as important for gaming but for video editing there might be some noticeable benefits.

Thank you so much for the feeback I will be upgrading to 32gb but in the near future I don't plan to do sli as of right now are the cuda cores of the gtx 970 good for the video editing Im only going to be working on many short films and photography