My first self built (gaming) PC, any good?

[Snowlynx]

Hi,

I will be building my own pc soon and I would appreciate it if you guys could tell me if I am doing anything wrong components wize. But without further ado here are my components.

Motherboard: MSI Z87-G43

GPU: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X

CPU: Intel core i5- 4690

HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB

Power Supply: Antec TruePower Classic 750w

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600-8GB (2x4GB)

Optical drive: Samsung SH-224DB

Case: Cooler Master CM 690 III

Soundcard: ASUS Xonar DX

(Also, I will be getting an SSD that a friend of mine had laying around somewhere for free, I belive it was a Kingston one)

Ok. So that's it.
Please comment if it is good or not. Thanks a lot.

 

[DeadGraphics]

Hi,

I will be building my own pc soon and I would appreciate it if you guys could tell me if I am doing anything wrong components wize. But without further ado here are my components.

Motherboard: MSI Z87-G43

GPU: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X

CPU: Intel core i5- 4690

HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB

Power Supply: Antec TruePower Classic 750w

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600-8GB (2x4GB)

Optical drive: Samsung SH-224DB

Case: Cooler Master CM 690 III

Soundcard: ASUS Xonar DX

(Also, I will be getting an SSD that a friend of mine had laying around somewhere for free, I belive it was a Kingston one)

Ok. So that's it.
Please comment if it is good or not. Thanks a lot.

Seems good apart from you might want a z97 motherboard or you'll have to do a BIOS update

 

[6R1M01R3]

You could go for a H97/87 chipset motherboard as you wont be overclocking with that processor, also the Seagate Barracuda 1tb is cheaper and has a 64mb cache. Pretty much that.

 

[Snowlynx]

Hi,

I will be building my own pc soon and I would appreciate it if you guys could tell me if I am doing anything wrong components wize. But without further ado here are my components.

Motherboard: MSI Z87-G43

GPU: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X

CPU: Intel core i5- 4690

HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB

Power Supply: Antec TruePower Classic 750w

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600-8GB (2x4GB)

Optical drive: Samsung SH-224DB

Case: Cooler Master CM 690 III

Soundcard: ASUS Xonar DX

(Also, I will be getting an SSD that a friend of mine had laying around somewhere for free, I belive it was a Kingston one)

Ok. So that's it.
Please comment if it is good or not. Thanks a lot.

Seems good apart from you might want a z97 motherboard or you'll have to do a BIOS update

So what is the big differance between the z97 and z87 motherboards and should i spend a more (about €10) the get the z97 one (sorry if it was a dumb question, I'm new to all this ^^).

 

[DeadGraphics]

You could go for a H97/87 chipset motherboard as you wont be overclocking with that processor, also the Seagate Barracuda 1tb is cheaper and has a 64mb cache. Pretty much that.

I think you can get the z97 PC Mate from MSI for pretty cheap