Need advice on gaming PC build

Charmandork

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Mar 15, 2014
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As it stands, these are the parts I've chosen:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/charmandork/saved/45IJ

Since being in Australia (higher prices) and the place I'm building it through, it already sits at $1500 AUD and I really can't afford to go any higher. So just a few questions:

1) Overall is the build good for a gaming PC?
2) Is the PSU acceptable for the build?
3) Should I go with 120GB SSD & 1TB HHD, or 60GB SSD & 2TB HHD?
4) Is there anything I can downgrade?

Thanks!
 
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1)This is a fine gaming pc, Don't expect to run Battlefield 4 70 fps but it will run well and is quite good.
2)Yes, your PSU is great, most of the time (especially with Intel builds) it only required a 350- 450W but your going safe with the 520.
3)This depends on what your going to be using the SSD for, if you're like me and its only going to be for your OS and a few select games than go for the 60gb SSD and 2tb HHD but If you plan on using it for the majority of your games or files, then you might want to go for the larger SSD. Remember that if you throw your OS on your SSD then it will take about 30gb+ away and therefore you will be limited on space right away.
4)I would say no, but out of preference I would personally "downgrade" to...
It's a fine build, the PSU will do great since you are probably not going to be using more than about 300 watts at any given point in time even if you try to push everything.

The 120/60 1TB/2TB is really a personal thing. I would go with the 60GB and 2 separate 1TB drives so the 60GB could use SRT on the primary usage drive and the second drive is just to keep extra copies of important information on or used as a temporary storage drive (for recording videos or something).

As for a downgrade, not really, but you should switch to a 2x4GB kit of RAM instead of a single stick. The single stick will not let your machine run in dual channel memory mode, reducing your performance.

 
1)This is a fine gaming pc, Don't expect to run Battlefield 4 70 fps but it will run well and is quite good.
2)Yes, your PSU is great, most of the time (especially with Intel builds) it only required a 350- 450W but your going safe with the 520.
3)This depends on what your going to be using the SSD for, if you're like me and its only going to be for your OS and a few select games than go for the 60gb SSD and 2tb HHD but If you plan on using it for the majority of your games or files, then you might want to go for the larger SSD. Remember that if you throw your OS on your SSD then it will take about 30gb+ away and therefore you will be limited on space right away.
4)I would say no, but out of preference I would personally "downgrade" to Windows 7 ultimate edition. I personally do not thing Windows 8 is a good OS especially for gaming. But if you like it you should have no problems.
 
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It actually is the 2x4gb version of that but every time I build it on pcpicker I get the wrong one haha
 


What do you mean it won't run BF4 70fps? Do you mean on ultra? Also install OS on SSD or HHD?