Looking to reduce budget 200-300. I am overbudget....

[Zazan]

Below is my build but I am not sure how I can save $200-300. Maybe get a slower i7 ddr3 and different motherboard? Any suggestions?? I want to keep the GTX980.


- EVGA Supernova 850 B2 Power Supply 80PLUS Bronze Certified 850W ATX Power Supply with ATX12V 110-B2-0850-V1 $94.99
- Crucial BX100 250GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive $99.00
- Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) CL16 DR x8 Unbuffered DIMM 288-Pin $179,99
- EVGA GTX980 ACX 2.0 4GB GDDR5 256bit, DVI-I, DP x 3, HDMI, SLI Ready Graphics Card 04G-P4-2981-KR $549.99
- Windows 8.1 System Builder OEM DVD 64-Bit $91.71
- LG WH14NS40 14X Internal Blu-ray M-DISC Burner BD BDXL MD CD DVD Drive + Nero Burning Software ($20 Value) + SATA Cable + IDE to SATA Power Adapter $76.99
- Seagate 2TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive $69.99
- Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W Desktop Processor $372.72
- Corsair Vengeance Series Black C70 Mid Tower Computer Case $70.00
-TP-LINK TL-WN881ND Wireless N300 PCI Express Adapter, 2.4GHz 300Mbps, Include Low-profile Bracket $19,99
-Gigabyte Intel LGA 2011-3 X99 4way SLI/CrossFireX Gaming Wi-Fi Intel/Killer LAN ATX Motherboards GA-X99-GAMING G1 WIFI $320

 

[Lucias OKeefe]

The motherboard is needlessly expensive, cheaper ones do about the same job. The i7 is really not worth the money, if you're overclocking go for the i5 4690K. You will not need an i7 outside of workstation level graphics rendering and the i5 will laugh at any game you show it anyway.

Do you need the optical disk drive? The OS can be installed by USB these day.

Why 16 gigs of RAM? How much 4K video editing will you be doing?

 

[Zazan]

I did a few changes better now??



• TP-LINK TL-WN881ND Wireless N300 PCI Express Adapter, 2.4GHz 300Mbps, Include Low-profile Bracket $19.99

• Gigabyte GV-N980G1 GAMING-4GD G1 Gaming, GeForce GTX 980, 4GB GDDR5 PCiE Video Graphics Card $521.88

• Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 2133 MHz (PC3 17000) Desktop $149.99

• Windows 8.1 System Builder OEM DVD 64-Bit $91.71

• Intel Core i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz) $319.99

• EVGA SuperNOVA 750 80PLUS B2 Bronze Certified 750W ATX12V/EPS12V Power Supply 110-B2-0750-VR
$74.99

• Seagate 2TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ($69.99

• Asus 24x DVD-RW Serial-ATA Internal OEM Optical Drive DRW-24B1ST (Black)
$19.99

• Noctua NH-U12 S for Intel LGA 2011,1156,1155,1150 and AMD AM2/AM2+/AM3/3+,FM1/2 Sockets, U Type, 5 Heatpipe,120mm CPU Cooler Cooling
$65.02

• Corsair Vengeance Series Black C70 Mid Tower Computer Case (CC-9011016-WW)
$70.00

• Gigabyte GA-Z97X-GAMING 7 LGA 1150 Z97 Gaming Audio Networking ATX Motherboard
$174.74

• Crucial BX100 250GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive $99.00

 

[Lucias OKeefe]

What has been changed?

 

[TimeLass]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 EXTREME4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($119.99 @ Micro Center)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($117.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($104.99 @ Adorama)
Power Supply: Antec TruePower Classic 750W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($83.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $456.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-26 05:35 EST-0500

- Ram with higher MHz doesnt really improve your pc's performance, normally higher MHz = lower CAS latency = no / slight increase in performance
- Get Noctua NH-D14 / 15 instead or an cheaper alternatives will do just as good
- Expensive MOBO doesnt really improve performance that much
- spend a bit more for a more reliable SSD
- spend more for a better PSU ( your pc component may spoil once your PSU goes kaboom)

if you are building your system for gaming purpose and some editing stuffs ( no OC ) then you can go cheaper with these

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($243.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($83.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Sandisk Ultra Plus 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($119.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Corsair 760W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $617.81
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-26 05:50 EST-0500

Or go even cheaper with i5-4460 + GTX 970 and wait for Broadwell + AMD 3xx series ?