Reviews about a gaming PC build.

Mohamed Hesham

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Oct 24, 2014
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4,510
All prices are converted from EGP TO USD, these are the prices in my country.

*Main components

-Power supply: SeaSonic ECO 600W PSU (73$)

-RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 CL9 Dual Channel Memory Kit (63$)

-Mother Board: Gigabyte GA-H97-D3H Socket 1150 Motherboard (118$)

-Processor: Intel Core I5-4670k Haswell 3.4GHz 6M LGA 1150 Processor (237$)

-Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 SC W/ ACX Cooler 2GB GDDR5 (307$)

-Case: Cooler Master HAF 912 Advanced Case (70$)

-Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002 500GB 7200.14 SATA 6Gb/s HDD (90$)

*Extras

-Wirless Adapter: D-Link DWA-548 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Desktop Adapter (17$)

-Optical Drive: Samsung 24X DVD-RW DL Drive (SH-224BB/RSBS) (17$)

Please leave you're opinion and if you have a better "RAM,Motherboard,etc.."in the same price range feel free to suggest it.
 
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Whilst the CPU is an unlocked part, doesn't the H97 chipset disallow overclocking? Personally, unless the 4690K was the same price as the 4690, I'd either drop down to the non-K, or switch up to a Z97 board (although that might be more costly)
Whilst the CPU is an unlocked part, doesn't the H97 chipset disallow overclocking? Personally, unless the 4690K was the same price as the 4690, I'd either drop down to the non-K, or switch up to a Z97 board (although that might be more costly)
 
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