Looking for a motherboard

[Dimitri Van Britsom]

Hello,

I'm searching all the parts for a new gaming pc. I don't know a lot of pc components, never made a pc myself. So I'm trying to check this forum, google, etc for info.

This is what I got so far:

- Processor: Intel i5-4690K
- Graphics card: MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G
- Motherboard:?
- Memory: Crucial 16 GB DDR3-1600 (I'd go 8 gb RAM first, but the store clerk told me to get 16 future based).
- Storage: I'd get an SSD 128-250 GB (suggestions? Might be getting Samsung 850 EVO MZ-75E250B/EU) and an HDD for bulk storage, don't know which one.
Don't know which case yet.
- PSU:?

Any other suggestions or comments always welcome.

 

[Islaymoocows]

Motherboard: http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Z97--DDR3-2600-Motherboards/dp/B00K2MAU5Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424475697&sr=8-1&keywords=z97+a

Get 8gbs of RAM the clerk just wants your money

Samsung 850 Evo is a great choice

For PSU id reccomend: http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-80PLUS-Bronze-Certified-100-B1-0600-KR/dp/B00EON40CS/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1424475801&sr=1-3&keywords=psu

 

[davidarad02]

CPU - great choice. its a beast in gaming, and will fly threw any game you throw at it.
GPU - again, great choice. while its been getting alot of talk around the 3.5GB ram thing, it wont really effect you if your playing on 1080p or even on 1440p.
MoBo: defiantly get a Z97 board, so you can OC the 4690k. also, try and get one that support SLI, so you could upgrade and add another 970 later on.
RAM - you dont need 16Gb of ram for this kind of budget, what the dude ment is that you should buy 8GB now and add more if you need it later on.
Storage - a 120/128 ssd is really the bare essentials. windows and your favourite game. you should really add another 1TB or more HDD for all your other games, as games are getting bigger and bigger.
PSU - get a good one from someone like SeaSonic, XFX, Antec and EVGA B2/G2. also get a 750w+ PSU. it will let you OC the heck out of the 4690k and the 970, and let you add another 970 later.
Case - chose one you think that looks nice, and fits your budget. good budget cases are the corsair SPEC lineup (SPEC-01, SPEC-02, SPEC-03), or the NZXT s340.

 

[Dimitri Van Britsom]

CPU - great choice. its a beast in gaming, and will fly threw any game you throw at it.
GPU - again, great choice. while its been getting alot of talk around the 3.5GB ram thing, it wont really effect you if your playing on 1080p or even on 1440p.
MoBo: defiantly get a Z97 board, so you can OC the 4690k. also, try and get one that support SLI, so you could upgrade and add another 970 later on.
RAM - you dont need 16Gb of ram for this kind of budget, what the dude ment is that you should buy 8GB now and add more if you need it later on.
Storage - a 120/128 ssd is really the bare essentials. windows and your favourite game. you should really add another 1TB or more HDD for all your other games, as games are getting bigger and bigger.
PSU - get a good one from someone like SeaSonic, XFX, Antec and EVGA B2/G2. also get a 750w+ PSU. it will let you OC the heck out of the 4690k and the 970, and let you add another 970 later.
Case - chose one you think that looks nice, and fits your budget. good budget cases are the corsair SPEC lineup (SPEC-01, SPEC-02, SPEC-03), or the NZXT s340.

About the storage, what would be recommended, I'm not rly on a budget, just wanna buy a good pc. What you suggest is getting a 120/128 gb like you said for windows and a few games? Then 250 gb would be a bit overkill? About the RAM you recommend 8 gb, should it be 2x4 or 1x8, because I read somewhere that duo stacked is better than one or triple.

 

[davidarad02]

CPU - great choice. its a beast in gaming, and will fly threw any game you throw at it.
GPU - again, great choice. while its been getting alot of talk around the 3.5GB ram thing, it wont really effect you if your playing on 1080p or even on 1440p.
MoBo: defiantly get a Z97 board, so you can OC the 4690k. also, try and get one that support SLI, so you could upgrade and add another 970 later on.
RAM - you dont need 16Gb of ram for this kind of budget, what the dude ment is that you should buy 8GB now and add more if you need it later on.
Storage - a 120/128 ssd is really the bare essentials. windows and your favourite game. you should really add another 1TB or more HDD for all your other games, as games are getting bigger and bigger.
PSU - get a good one from someone like SeaSonic, XFX, Antec and EVGA B2/G2. also get a 750w+ PSU. it will let you OC the heck out of the 4690k and the 970, and let you add another 970 later.
Case - chose one you think that looks nice, and fits your budget. good budget cases are the corsair SPEC lineup (SPEC-01, SPEC-02, SPEC-03), or the NZXT s340.

About the storage, what would be recommended, I'm not rly on a budget, just wanna buy a good pc. What you suggest is getting a 120/128 gb like you said for windows and a few games? Then 250 gb would be a bit overkill? About the RAM you recommend 8 gb, should it be 2x4 or 1x8, because I read somewhere that duo stacked is better than one or triple.

Storage:
120/128GB SSD is really the base essentials. it will hold your OS and some games, that have really bad load times (like battlefield 4 for example). 240-256 is really the sweet spot in terms of price to capacity, it will let you hold more games, and some other key applications.
dont think that you can run on JUST a SSD for a while. a normal 1TB+ is a no brainer, as games are getting bigger and bigger, and unless you dont play more then 2 games, a normal HDD is a must.

RAM:
the thing about RAM, is that theres 3 main things to consider (im not counting timings, as they are not that important);
1. frequency: the MHz the RAM is rated at - the speed it operates at. the theres 1333MHz, 1600MHz, 1866MHz, 2133MHz and 2400MHz. those are all the normal DDR3 speeds. high speed memory is getting cheaper and cheaper, so a 1866/2133 kit is more affordable, and in some games (like battlefield 4), people have noticed a performance increase with high speed RAM.
2. capacity: the size (in GB) of the kit you are buying. for a gaming build of your caliber, 8GB is plenty, as games dont really use more then that. you can also pay some more, and get 16GB, but that isn't necessary.
3. the channels: on each MoBo there are a set amount of RAM slots, and usually they are colour coordinated, to match the channel. a channel is basically the bus that the CPU uses to access memory. the more channels you have, the more bandwidth you have to your ram. all z97 boards today support dual channel operation - double the bandwidth of single channel. to use the full potential of dual channel, you need 2 separate memory sticks, and you need to install them in a certain place in the MoBo, to use dual channel. the MoBo manual will tell you what memory slots correspond to what channel, and it will tell you where to install the memory.

 

[Dimitri Van Britsom]

CPU - great choice. its a beast in gaming, and will fly threw any game you throw at it.
GPU - again, great choice. while its been getting alot of talk around the 3.5GB ram thing, it wont really effect you if your playing on 1080p or even on 1440p.
MoBo: defiantly get a Z97 board, so you can OC the 4690k. also, try and get one that support SLI, so you could upgrade and add another 970 later on.
RAM - you dont need 16Gb of ram for this kind of budget, what the dude ment is that you should buy 8GB now and add more if you need it later on.
Storage - a 120/128 ssd is really the bare essentials. windows and your favourite game. you should really add another 1TB or more HDD for all your other games, as games are getting bigger and bigger.
PSU - get a good one from someone like SeaSonic, XFX, Antec and EVGA B2/G2. also get a 750w+ PSU. it will let you OC the heck out of the 4690k and the 970, and let you add another 970 later.
Case - chose one you think that looks nice, and fits your budget. good budget cases are the corsair SPEC lineup (SPEC-01, SPEC-02, SPEC-03), or the NZXT s340.

About the storage, what would be recommended, I'm not rly on a budget, just wanna buy a good pc. What you suggest is getting a 120/128 gb like you said for windows and a few games? Then 250 gb would be a bit overkill? About the RAM you recommend 8 gb, should it be 2x4 or 1x8, because I read somewhere that duo stacked is better than one or triple.

Storage:
120/128GB SSD is really the base essentials. it will hold your OS and some games, that have really bad load times (like battlefield 4 for example). 240-256 is really the sweet spot in terms of price to capacity, it will let you hold more games, and some other key applications.
dont think that you can run on JUST a SSD for a while. a normal 1TB+ is a no brainer, as games are getting bigger and bigger, and unless you dont play more then 2 games, a normal HDD is a must.

RAM:
the thing about RAM, is that theres 3 main things to consider (im not counting timings, as they are not that important);
1. frequency: the MHz the RAM is rated at - the speed it operates at. the theres 1333MHz, 1600MHz, 1866MHz, 2133MHz and 2400MHz. those are all the normal DDR3 speeds. high speed memory is getting cheaper and cheaper, so a 1866/2133 kit is more affordable, and in some games (like battlefield 4), people have noticed a performance increase with high speed RAM.
2. capacity: the size (in GB) of the kit you are buying. for a gaming build of your caliber, 8GB is plenty, as games dont really use more then that. you can also pay some more, and get 16GB, but that isn't necessary.
3. the channels: on each MoBo there are a set amount of RAM slots, and usually they are colour coordinated, to match the channel. a channel is basically the bus that the CPU uses to access memory. the more channels you have, the more bandwidth you have to your ram. all z97 boards today support dual channel operation - double the bandwidth of single channel. to use the full potential of dual channel, you need 2 separate memory sticks, and you need to install them in a certain place in the MoBo, to use dual channel. the MoBo manual will tell you what memory slots correspond to what channel, and it will tell you where to install the memory.

So concrete I should pick DDR 3 1866/2133 Mhz 8 gb. As for the storage: the same samsung version but 250 gb and for normal storage HDD 1TB+. The HDD, what should be the stats for it (ms/Cache/rpm)? I've read somewhere it should be 7200 rpm, but for the rest, what would be recommended?
For the Mobo: I'd pick MSI Z97 GAMING 5, socket 1150 motherboard RAID, Gb-LAN, Sound, ATX 1 x

 

[davidarad02]

CPU - great choice. its a beast in gaming, and will fly threw any game you throw at it.
GPU - again, great choice. while its been getting alot of talk around the 3.5GB ram thing, it wont really effect you if your playing on 1080p or even on 1440p.
MoBo: defiantly get a Z97 board, so you can OC the 4690k. also, try and get one that support SLI, so you could upgrade and add another 970 later on.
RAM - you dont need 16Gb of ram for this kind of budget, what the dude ment is that you should buy 8GB now and add more if you need it later on.
Storage - a 120/128 ssd is really the bare essentials. windows and your favourite game. you should really add another 1TB or more HDD for all your other games, as games are getting bigger and bigger.
PSU - get a good one from someone like SeaSonic, XFX, Antec and EVGA B2/G2. also get a 750w+ PSU. it will let you OC the heck out of the 4690k and the 970, and let you add another 970 later.
Case - chose one you think that looks nice, and fits your budget. good budget cases are the corsair SPEC lineup (SPEC-01, SPEC-02, SPEC-03), or the NZXT s340.

About the storage, what would be recommended, I'm not rly on a budget, just wanna buy a good pc. What you suggest is getting a 120/128 gb like you said for windows and a few games? Then 250 gb would be a bit overkill? About the RAM you recommend 8 gb, should it be 2x4 or 1x8, because I read somewhere that duo stacked is better than one or triple.

Storage:
120/128GB SSD is really the base essentials. it will hold your OS and some games, that have really bad load times (like battlefield 4 for example). 240-256 is really the sweet spot in terms of price to capacity, it will let you hold more games, and some other key applications.
dont think that you can run on JUST a SSD for a while. a normal 1TB+ is a no brainer, as games are getting bigger and bigger, and unless you dont play more then 2 games, a normal HDD is a must.

RAM:
the thing about RAM, is that theres 3 main things to consider (im not counting timings, as they are not that important);
1. frequency: the MHz the RAM is rated at - the speed it operates at. the theres 1333MHz, 1600MHz, 1866MHz, 2133MHz and 2400MHz. those are all the normal DDR3 speeds. high speed memory is getting cheaper and cheaper, so a 1866/2133 kit is more affordable, and in some games (like battlefield 4), people have noticed a performance increase with high speed RAM.
2. capacity: the size (in GB) of the kit you are buying. for a gaming build of your caliber, 8GB is plenty, as games dont really use more then that. you can also pay some more, and get 16GB, but that isn't necessary.
3. the channels: on each MoBo there are a set amount of RAM slots, and usually they are colour coordinated, to match the channel. a channel is basically the bus that the CPU uses to access memory. the more channels you have, the more bandwidth you have to your ram. all z97 boards today support dual channel operation - double the bandwidth of single channel. to use the full potential of dual channel, you need 2 separate memory sticks, and you need to install them in a certain place in the MoBo, to use dual channel. the MoBo manual will tell you what memory slots correspond to what channel, and it will tell you where to install the memory.

So concrete I should pick DDR 3 1866/2133 Mhz 8 gb. As for the storage: the same samsung version but 250 gb and for normal storage HDD 1TB+. The HDD, what should be the stats for it (ms/Cache/rpm)? I've read somewhere it should be 7200 rpm, but for the rest, what would be recommended?
For the Mobo: I'd pick MSI Z97 GAMING 5, socket 1150 motherboard RAID, Gb-LAN, Sound, ATX 1 x

for a HDD, the speed it runs at (measured in RPM), determines the speed that the HDD is going to run at, so a 7200RPM HDD is recommended. then theres capacity. for most people today, 1TB is enough, but game sizes are getting bigger and bigger, so you might want to spend like 20-30 bucks more and get a 2TB instead.
the cache is not THAT important, but most good HDD should come with 64MB of cache, but that doesnt really effect performance.
a solid recommendation for a HDD is the WD caviar blue 1TB HDD. one of the best budget HDDs in the market, giving you 1TB of 7200 RPM storage. if you want more, you can get a seagate 2TB for 70-80 bucks and 3TB for 90- 100 bucks.

 

[Dimitri Van Britsom]

Thanks man, really helped me out.

 

[davidarad02]

NP bro 😉