Will this work?

[dawgfan58]

Hi everyone,

I'm getting my first gaming PC, and I was going to purchase one, but after much reading it seems to make more sense to build it myself. I've never done this before, but I have done some research. I've got the parts picked out that *I think* will work for me. I just can't seem to find a reliable way to make sure everything will work together. I hope you can be of some help. If anything could be improved, please let me know. (I have no computer background other than being young and always having one).


Budget: $2000 or less

Current idea:

Power: AZZA Platinum 850-Watt 80+ Platinum Power Supply (PSAZ-850PT14)

Tower: NZXT Phantom 820 Full Tower Chassis with RGB Color Changing Lights and Fan Control CA-PH820-M1, Matte Black -

Optical drive: Liteon iHAS324 24X DVD-RW SATA Optical Disk Drive

SSD: Samsung Electronics MZ-7PD128BW 840 Pro Series 2.5-Inch 128GB SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive

HDD: HGST Deskstar 3.5-Inch 1TB 7200 RPM SATA II 32 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (0S02860)

RAM: Corsair Vengeance Blue 16 GB DDR3 SDRAM Dual Channel Memory Kit CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B -

Graphics: EVGA GeForce GTX670 2048MB GDDR5 256bit, 2x Dual-Link DVI, HDMI, DP, 4-Way SLI Ready Graphics Card (02G-P4-2670-KR)

Motherboard: Gigabyte Intel Z77 LGA 1155 AMD CrossFireX/NVIDIA SLI W/ HDMI,DVI,DispayPort Dual UEFI BIOS ATX Motherboard GA-Z77X-UD3H

Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K Quad-Core Processor 3.5 GHz 8 MB Cache LGA 1155 - BX80637I73770K

I considered running dual graphics cards after some reading, but I'm not exactly sure how that would work.

Thanks for your help.

 

[ACTechy]

Looks like a pretty good build! I would go for a different name in power supplies, and 850w is a little overkill and a bit pricey, check this out as an alternative:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151121

If you want to run SLI (dual nvidia graphics cards) you would be fine with the current setup, you would just need another 2GB GTX 670, obviously. There's a million Youtube tutorials on how SLI works, so I'll spare you the details, but always consider whether two cards will just be getting you the performance of one better card for similar price. One card setup is better, as you never get the full processing power of two cards in SLI (and SLI cards + drivers can be wonky on certain games). Using one card to the max is more cost efficient, if that makes sense.

 

[C12Friedman]

I've got two links for you to look at;
First, what some of the members here suggest for a $2000 budget http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1757458/bestconfigs-high-end-intel-gaming.html
Second, PCPartPicker where you can play with configurations 'til you turn blue and (for the most part) it will tell of incompatibilities http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/