Is this a good Gaming PC?

[alexcharlie]

Thermaltake V9 BlacX Case
Intel Core i5-4670 Quad 3.8GHz Turbo 6MB
Gigabyte S1150 H87-HD3
8GB DUAL DDR3 1600MHz
1TB SATA3 7200RPM 64MB
24x DVD SuperMulti
Gigabyte GTX 760 OC PCI-E3.0 2GB
7.1 Nichicon Gamers soundcontrol
Windows 8 64-bit


Tell me if this is good or bad and tell me if something there is not needed

 

[Onus]

What PSU? I'm not going to niggle the rest of it; looks good. I assume the RAM is 2x4GB...

 

[alexcharlie]

Says: 700W SLI CrossFire ready for 2 video cards

 

[badboyrog]

just take a note about the mobo... i dont think is SLI ready??
so if in the futur you want to add an other nvidia in SLI mode ....???

 

[Onus]

What brand and model is the PSU?

 

[alexcharlie]

It doesnt say what model it is. Does that matter tho because its 700w crossfire.

 

[Onus]

What is on its label? If it is a cheap generic, treat it as no more than 70% of its label, or in this case a 490W PSU. It may be good for more, but it may not be, and cheap generic PSUs tend to lack protection circuits, so when they die they may take other parts with them. Does it have a little voltage switch on it? In most cases that would indicate an obsolete, inefficient, overrated unit that should not be trusted.

 

[challedude]

Your motherboard has 2x pcie slots, but 1 of them only runs in 4x mode, witch i dont prefer for sli or crossfire.

Also your motherboard only supports crossfire not sli, there is a mod called HyperSli witch enables sli on crossfire boards tought.

If i would be you i would buy 1 Gtx 770 whit that board, or buy a motherboard that has 2 pcie slots running in 8/8x mode, and supports sli.

Also if you prefer the SLI option you should get at least a quality 750w psu.

 

[alexcharlie]

Im not going to sli.

 

[challedude]

In that case i recommend buying a gtx 770 if you can afford it.
Thought there is nothing wrong whit the gtx 760, but in the future you may be dissapointed.

 

[alexcharlie]

Yeah i mean i can run all games on the gtx 760 just fine. So i mean games wont become that demand in next 2 years

 

[challedude]

If your fine running future games on medium or high setting gtx 760 is a good choice indeed.

But if you look at Battlefield 4 recommended system reqs a graphic card whit 3gb memory is needed. in that case gtx 760 wont do the job on max settings.