Need help knowing if I'm right or wrong about my gaming/lite editing pc.

[Yologuy569]

I showed my specs to my friend today and he laughed. Said my part are to expensive, said I should get cheaper ram, pc case, get an i5 and that my CPU cooler is cheap and same price for his air cooled. He said that he paid 75$ for is 8bg 1866ghz ram and that I'm stupide for paying that much for mine.Black friday is coming up so I said to him that all save some money when buying my parts on BF, he repied ''Because we live in canada you won't save that much'' All I want to know is if his right on what he said about my Cooler, ram, cpu and BF. (I'm ordering my parts online from NCIX, NewEgg, etc..)

here are my specs:
Cpu: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core $348.98
Cpu Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120V 86.2 CFM Liquid $44.99
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-OC Force EATX LGA1150 ` $199.99
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Tactical 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 $189.95
Storage: Sandisk Solid State Drive 256GB 2.5" SSD $105.75
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V $417.95
Case: Corsair 780T ATX Full Tower $188.37
Power Supply: Corsair RM 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $69.99
NetW Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN781ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1
Keyboard: Cooler Master Storm Trigger
Mouse: Logitech G502 Wired Optical
(I'm planing on Getting a 2tb Hybride hard drive in the near futur for 100$.)

For a grand total of 1819$ (with out tax and sorry for my bad spelling/grammer I'm french)

 

[logainofhades]

Change the motherboard for an MSI Z97 Gaming 5, and the cooler to a 120xl, if you want a 120mm cooler. Everything else is fine.

 

[APassingMe]

I don't know if you really need the liquid cooler, the i7 isn't needed unless you need more PCIe support and you don't have it on your motherboard. Memory prices have gone up so you can't get memory much cheaper unless you get 8gigs instead of 16gigs. The 970 is overkill for most people but if you like your graphics on max than it's what you need. Are you sure you need a full tower, most people don't like the space it uses and you can find some big mid towers.

Your wireless adapter probably won't be as good as you need for gaming, you should get one with an antenna that you can place higher for better reception or go with a wired connection (wired all the way if possible).

That's about all I have to say, I would recommend getting the price down closer to $1200 if possible and saving the rest for upgrades a few years down the road but that's really a personally choice and if you have the cash... Good luck with your build.

 

[Yologuy569]

Change the motherboard for an MSI Z97 Gaming 5, and the cooler to a 120xl, if you want a 120mm cooler. Everything else is fine.

Will I still be able to OC my cpu even know the mobo is not an OC version (I don't see why not).

 

[logainofhades]

That motherboard is an overclocking board. I am not sure why you think it isn't.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mainstream-gaming-z97-motherboard,3824-27.html

 

[Yologuy569]

Change the motherboard for an MSI Z97 Gaming 5, and the cooler to a 120xl, if you want a 120mm cooler. Everything else is fine.

And about black friday, do you have an estimate on how much the price will drop down by?

 

[logainofhades]

Have no idea on black friday deals, as I have not been shopping around for black friday deals this year. I really don't need anything. :lol: