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I'm building a new rig with the following parts. Any ideas on whether it is good or should I change some?

Samsung 840 Pro Series 256 GB
Western Digital Black 2TB WD2002FAEX
Intel Core i5 4670K
COOLER MASTER SEIDON 240M
ASUS Maximus VI Hero
GSKILL 16GB (2x8GB) Trident X DDR3 2400MHz
ASUS GTX770 DirectCU II O.C. GDDR5 2GB
ASUS DRW - 24B3ST
CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES 500R
CORSAIR ENTHUSIAST SERIES TX750M (750W)
 
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750W is plenty for a GTX 770, heck you could throw 2 in there and the PSU will still do fine. That said, for the money of the PSU you chose, you can get a fully modular, +80 Plus Gold XFX ProSeries 750W.

As for RAM overclock, I wouldn't recommend it, aside from synthetic benchmarks, you will not notice any difference in your system behavior. The RAM you picked has its own heatsink that will work nevertheless.
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To be safe I would go higher on the power supply. I would recommend a 1000w due to the graphics card under load will be eating power rapidly. Plus it would prep yourself if you decided to over clock the processor. That would be my suggestion. But I love the machine your going to build!
 
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I thought 750W will be enough for a single gpu system even if I overclock moderately. I do not intent to buy a second card, hope this system will last for about 3-4 years.

Will I need a cooler for gskill if I overclock memory ?
 
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750W is plenty for a GTX 770, heck you could throw 2 in there and the PSU will still do fine. That said, for the money of the PSU you chose, you can get a fully modular, +80 Plus Gold XFX ProSeries 750W.

As for RAM overclock, I wouldn't recommend it, aside from synthetic benchmarks, you will not notice any difference in your system behavior. The RAM you picked has its own heatsink that will work nevertheless.
 
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Pretty sweet build. Two things that bothered me a little:

1) The amount of VRAM on your graphics card. Not saying it´s not enough but while playing BF4, around 2-2.1GB VRAM is being used @ 1080p with everything maxed out. Just saying.

2) I am not disagreeing with navask01 here. But taking BF4 as an example again. It seems like there is indeed a pretty big performance gain with higher RAM. From 1333MHz to 2400MHz, there seems to be a gain of around 15FPS depending on the rest of your setup.
But that is only one game that seems to really benefit from better RAM. And who knows what other future games need/recommend.
Just something to think about. 😉

 
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I know there are improvements.But would the OP actually notice them? Depending on prices in Turkey,the prices for those few more FPS may not be worth it.
But you're right,it depends on the rest of his setup,monitor and resolution he's going to play at
 
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I'm currently using Asus PB278. 27" Widescreen

I don't want to go for a 4GB graphics card because the price difference is about 180 dollars. I don't think it is worth it. As for the memory, I will try to create a RAM disk with ASUS ROG utility and link my users directory (about 2 GB in my current setup so I think 4 GB RAMDisk will suffice). Any thoughts?
 
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