Is this a good pc for gaming?Amd fx 8350 4.0 Ghz 8 core processorCooler master hyper 212 evoAsrock 970 extreme3 r2.0 amd

[GAKATTACK40]

Is this a good pc?
Amd fx 8350 4.0 Ghz 8 core processor
Cooler master hyper 212 evo
Asrock 970 extreme3 r2.0 amd3+ mother board
Crusial ballistix sport 8 gb(4x2)
Western digital caviar blue 1tb
Evga GeForce gfx 960 2gb
Thermal take atx mid tower case
Xfx 550 watt 80+ bronze certified atx power supply

 

[rkumaran]

Yes. its a very good PC Build.

 

[Alastair smith]

Every things look good on the list except you GPU. If I were you, I would have AMD's R9 290X on the list, it has got 4Gb of VRAM which is good for 4K stuff.

 

[Alastair smith]

Yeah but the power consumption and heat are much more than of the nvidia, and the its only 512 mb of RAM difference

If you are talking about the reference design then I agree with you but what is the use of buying a reference design GPU when you can get a good non reference design GPU which is quite, fast and does not throttle and as far as the power consumption is considered its not as high as people think, once you overclock any Nvidia's 900 or 700 series GPU they suddenly start consuming too much power with lots of heat output and you get only 4-5 FPS gain which is not worth at all, also, that 512MB of extra VRAM gives a huge boost-up to the GPU when it comes to the 4K and last but not least when you overclock R9 290X (non reference), the increase in the FPS rate is much higher and the heat output is not as high as Nvidia's 700 or 900 series GPU ( if the base temps are considered).

 

[badboyrog2]

better to wait the release of gtx 960 4gb vrm ...very soon