Screaming Fast for a Long Time

[clayofthe757]

Tell what about this build is wrong for gaming (if anything).

Keep in mind that I don't mind performing upgrades (I'm A+ certified all that garbage). But I'd like to avoid it as long as I can. What do the young'ins call it now? "Future proof"
Am I wasting my money on the i7, when a top end i5 will suffice? (There seems to be some controversy about that bit.) And if so, with the savings on the processor I could afford to sport the GTX 780 rather than the R9 280x, and would that be advisable?

No fanboys please. Just educated opinion and metrics, if you would.

Intel® Core™ i7-4770K 3.50 GHz 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150 (All Venom OC Certified)

FAN: Intel Certified CPU Fan & Heatsink

HDD: 256GB SanDisk SATA III 6.0Gb/s SSD - 490MB/s Read & 350MB/s Write [

MEMORY: 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Vengeance

MONITOR: 24" Widescreen 1920x1080 BenQ GW2450 Glossy 4ms (GTG) LED Backlight D-Sub, DVI, LCD Monitor

MOTHERBOARD: MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate ATX w/ Military Class 4, OC Genie II, GbLAN, 2 GEn3 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 2 PCI

OS: Microsoft® Windows 8.1 (64-bit Ed)

OVERCLOCK: No Overclocking

POWERSUPPLY: 700 Watts - Cooler Master i700 700W 80 Plus Bronze Certified Active PFC Power Supply

VIDEO: AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card

 

[Krishna Moorthy]

Well The more powerful your system the longer it will be able to keep up to put it frankly. The i5 will be fine for gaming and waht not for now but if you want it to last longer go for the i7. While i use amd products. Nvidia gpu's will last alot longer dure to the new amd cards running at close to 100 degrees.

 

[clayofthe757]

Well The more powerful your system the longer it will be able to keep up to put it frankly. The i5 will be fine for gaming and waht not for now but if you want it to last longer go for the i7. While i use amd products. Nvidia gpu's will last alot longer dure to the new amd cards running at close to 100 degrees.

So how about a GTX 770 instead of the 280x? The smaller VRAM of the former concerns me some. But by my research they seem to perform equally.

 

[leeb2013]

it's only the reference cooler AMD stuff that runs hot, however I'd still dump the I7 for and I5 and get the GTX780 instead, the 780 is just awesome.

 

[Krishna Moorthy]

Well The more powerful your system the longer it will be able to keep up to put it frankly. The i5 will be fine for gaming and waht not for now but if you want it to last longer go for the i7. While i use amd products. Nvidia gpu's will last alot longer dure to the new amd cards running at close to 100 degrees.

So how about a GTX 770 instead of the 280x? The smaller VRAM of the former concerns me some. But by my research they seem to perform equally.

The 770 is good but if cyou can get the 780 it is a great card but money of course may be weighing you towards 770. But if you want a long lifetime go for the nvidia range.

 

[leeb2013]

Well The more powerful your system the longer it will be able to keep up to put it frankly. The i5 will be fine for gaming and waht not for now but if you want it to last longer go for the i7. While i use amd products. Nvidia gpu's will last alot longer dure to the new amd cards running at close to 100 degrees.

So how about a GTX 770 instead of the 280x? The smaller VRAM of the former concerns me some. But by my research they seem to perform equally.

The lower ram will restrict you if you plan on higher res than 1080 or multimonitor (and because you can get monitors for $80, I'd recommend 3). In these cases the 770 will have neither enough performance or RAM, so I'd recommend the 780 again or SLI/crossfire. I crossfire 2 x 7950 with 3 monitors and it's fantastic.

 

[clayofthe757]

Well The more powerful your system the longer it will be able to keep up to put it frankly. The i5 will be fine for gaming and waht not for now but if you want it to last longer go for the i7. While i use amd products. Nvidia gpu's will last alot longer dure to the new amd cards running at close to 100 degrees.

So how about a GTX 770 instead of the 280x? The smaller VRAM of the former concerns me some. But by my research they seem to perform equally.

The 770 is good but if cyou can get the 780 it is a great card but money of course may be weighing you towards 770. But if you want a long lifetime go for the nvidia range.

The build above includes an R9 280x with HIS ice cooling system. Plus I get a three year warranty on all the parts through the company that is building it. Worth it?

 

[Krishna Moorthy]

Well The more powerful your system the longer it will be able to keep up to put it frankly. The i5 will be fine for gaming and waht not for now but if you want it to last longer go for the i7. While i use amd products. Nvidia gpu's will last alot longer dure to the new amd cards running at close to 100 degrees.

So how about a GTX 770 instead of the 280x? The smaller VRAM of the former concerns me some. But by my research they seem to perform equally.

The 770 is good but if cyou can get the 780 it is a great card but money of course may be weighing you towards 770. But if you want a long lifetime go for the nvidia range.

The build above includes an R9 280x with HIS ice cooling system. Plus I get a three year warranty on all the parts through the company that is building it. Worth it?

Well you specified a long time so for 3 years its covered but after that well... You will probably have a longer usage life with an nvidia card. Other factor will include the heat the card is exposed to Amd run hotter. case cooling and things like that.