Upgrading Pc soon, need critique.

[Rahktaahl]

Hello, I'm upgrading my PC and am in need of a second opinion and critique. I'm wondering if there's anything I could do better, perhaps something in the build that isn't compatible. My biggest concern is the water cooling solution because of my case and possible incompatibility. I'm going to continue using my current case (White Cougar Evolution), power supply (700W Rosewill 12v+), optical drive, and hdd that will be converted from a boot drive to a media drive. The system OS is also being changed to Windows 8.1 with the ssd as the boot drive with extra space for lord knows what. The full build is in the link below.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/YyqLf7

 

[i7Baby]

Change the SSD to a Samsung 840 0r 850.

Change the PSU to a Seasonic 520, XFX550 or Antec HCG 520M

Otherwise, its fine.

 

[Rahktaahl]

Change the SSD to a Samsung 840 0r 850.

Change the PSU to a Seasonic 520, XFX550 or Antec HCG 520M

Otherwise, its fine.

Would you care to explain why? Just curious

 

[i7Baby]

Samsungs are better SSDs http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269.html

The PSUs are all better quality than the Rosewill http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html

 

[Rahktaahl]

Samsungs are better SSDs http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269.html

The PSUs are all better quality than the Rosewill http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html

Thank you very much!

 

[hang-the-9]

You should get a larger solid state drive, 240 gig or more. 120 will not be enough to hold much at all and you don't want to run your games of a slower secondary drive.

I'd also replace the large Green drive with a regular Blue or Black WD, green is fine for file storage but not if you will be copying lots of files to it or running editing of videos off it. The Green is only a 5400 rpm drive which is pretty slow. With that 970 you are getting you are clearly not worried about saving 5 watts of power on a hard drive. Get the WD Black series for best performance.

I'd drop the CPU to a i5-4690K which will overclock nicely (save $100) and use that towards a larger SSD drive. Or just keep the i7 if you don't care about the cost and upgrade the SSD.