New Gaming PC Build

[Shopon13]

Hey im going to build my first gaming pc which will be a mini ITX machine.

These are the following components im going to buy,

Intel Core i5 4570 Quad Core (Haswell)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB Graphics Card

Asus H87I-Plus Motherboard

8GB Corsair Vengenance DDR3 1600MHz RAM

500GB Western Digital Black Hard Drive

Bitfenix Prodigy Case

500W Corsair CX500 Power Supply

I do not intend to overclock and will you please tell me whether this will be a good budget build and if any improvements can be made?
How do you think games like bf4, planetside 2 and crysis will run on this system and high settings?

Thanks

 

[envy14tpe]

Get a Blue WD HDD and put the money into buying a 660 instead of a 7850. 2GB is plenty, you don't need 3GB of RAM.

 

[Emcardle]

Get the 7950 don't listen to the guy above.

 

[envy14tpe]

Get the 7950 don't listen to the guy above.

Noob comment.

A 7850 costs $210. A 660 costs $230. A 7950 costs $290. Do you see the price difference?

 

[Jack Revenant]

Get the 7950 don't listen to the guy above.

It appears that either envy misread the 7950 as 7850, or the OP changed that after his comment.

OP, I would recommend getting a 1TB WD Blue (http://us.ncix.com/products/?usaffiliateid=1000031504&sku=74462&vpn=WD10EZEX&manufacture=Western%20Digital%20WD&promoid=1213) instead of a 500GB WD Black, and getting a GTX 760 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DBPKEOI/?tag=pcpapi-20) in place of the 7950, which it is both cheaper and stronger than.

Edit: I would also suggest an XFX Core Edition 550w (http://us.ncix.com/products/?usaffiliateid=1000031504&sku=59615&vpn=P1550SXXB9&manufacture=XFX&promoid=1213) instead of the CX500. It's a bit more expensive, but it's a significant increase in quality.

Edit 2: Added links to parts.

 

[drtoast]

Well you told him not to get a card lower than what he already has listed... then told him to save money to buy the lower card. Do you see the logic?

To OP, I have to agree with jack. The 760 will run cooler too which is a major consideration for an ITX build.

 

[envy14tpe]

Get the 7950 don't listen to the guy above.

It appears that either envy misread the 7950 as 7850, or the OP changed that after his comment.

OP, I would recommend getting a 1TB WD Blue instead of a 500GB WD Black, and getting a GTX 760 in place of the 7950, which it is both cheaper and stronger than.

Edit: I would also suggest an XFX Core Edition 550w instead of the CX500. It's a bit more expensive, but it's a significant increase in quality.

He changed his build. Before it said ..7850...now it says ..7950.

 

[drtoast]

He changed his build. Before it said ..7850...now it says ..7950.

=D friends now everybody

 

[Jack Revenant]

He changed his build. Before it said ..7850...now it says ..7950.

I suspected as much. He likely noticed the typo when he looked at your response.

=D friends now everybody

Friendship does, in fact, possess magical properties, or so I am told.

 

[envy14tpe]

He changed his build. Before it said ..7850...now it says ..7950.

=D friends now everybody

Doing nothing but helping..... If someone changes something ....like 7850 to 7950 ...that's a huge difference.

 

[Emcardle]

Get the 7950 don't listen to the guy above.

Noob comment.

A 7850 costs $210. A 660 costs $230. A 7950 costs $290. Do you see the price difference?

A 7950 outperforms a 660 hugely

 

[Emcardle]

Sorry I didn't read the other comments.