I'm building this rig soon, like in a week or two. I just wanted to know if you guys have suggestions for lowering the price a little bit. Is there anything i could change? Thanks in advance!
Not a bad build. But you may want to look into the 4690k part and some better cooling if you want to overclock. Take a look at the R9 290. It is faster than the 780 9/10, has more VRAM (Important for high resolution gaming) and is cheaper.
Thanks, I was looking at the XFX 290 for 369.99, would that be a viable option?
I doubt, that the 4690k can really use the full potential of either the 780 or the 290 ....
Don't know why this rig seems so pricey ... but better and quieter cooling would really be a good thing (I personally love Noctua, be quiet! and the Thermalright silver arrow, which actually has the best price/performance ratio when it comes to overclocking).
And, as I'm an advocat of MOAR Cores, I think that you should at least get an i7 4770k ... expecially if the extra-price would just come down to about 7% of the full rig.
Just think about it.
For the fans, I would go with some Fractal R2s and get a fan controller... it's cheaper and gets you a little bit more silence than the corsairs in my opinion.
EDIT:
I just screwed up ... haven't seen that the corsair fans come in dual-pack ... At my place these fans are about 27€ in the double-pack, which is about 40$ ....
Man, I wish I could get my rig parts as cheap as you can XD
You doubt that the 4690k can really use the full potential of either of those cards? So you are saying it will bottleneck them?
Well, the 4690k is a Devil's Canyon Haswell Refresh of the 4670k. The 4670k is an incredibly powerful and good CPU. It won't bottleneck any modern GPU or multiGPU setup and considering the 4690k is both faster and OCs better than the 4670k, I doubt it will have any problem with either of those cards or two of them for that matter.
Advocate of MOAR cores? Well why did you recommend the 4770k? It is a quad core just like the 4670/4790k. No more cores. It does have HT which makes it appear to have more cores but they are just virtual. Hyperthreading IS NOT more cores. Considering HT is pretty much pointless in games and usually the 4770k benchmarks no faster than the i5 in games it is dumb to recommend it.
Here is what I would build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/fyKQf7
I changed the CPU to the 4690k. It is a tiny bit faster than the 4670k and apparently OCs better. That being said if you can get that 4670k for $190 like oyu have in your build get that. It will be just as fast and is a much better deal.
I changed the heatsink. The Noctua one I selected is much quieter and will allow you to OC that CPU higher than the 212 Evo will let you.
Changed the motherboard to an Asus one. I like their features and I prefer Asus to Gigabyte.
Changed the RAM. Found some slightly cheaper. Really RAM is RAM go with the cheapest.
Kept your storage.
Changed the GPU to a Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X. This card is both cheaper and faster than the 780. It has more RAM which can really come in handy at higher resolutions and when running with high res textures. The Tri-X cooler is very good and will allow you to OC the card to gain more speed.
Dropped the wattage of the PSU. You don't need that much juice. that being said the 750W is only a little more so that is up to you.
Ditched the optical drive. You don't need it.
Ditched the extra case fans. You don't need those either.
lol 4670k and 4690k will handle 2 R9 290s or 2 780tis just fine.
If you go with 3, then maybe you might wanna start looking to an i7. DerKrieger is right with the i7 though, it's pretty much the addition of hyperthreading. It is indeed still a 4 core CPU.
As long as it is not the stock AMD cooler with the little blower fan, it should be ok.
Sorry, but I don't really think so ....
the i7 may be a 4 core, thats correct, but HT is still adding around 23-35% performance to these 4 cores ... besides being able to work double the threads of an i5 per clock.
also ... I still don't really understand, why anyone would go as half ass as an i5 on a gaming rig .... I mean ... every i5 is a solid quad core .... nothing more, nothing less.
And like I said, I don't think that in 2 years from now, any demanding application will properly run with less than 6 threads (by demanding I mean graphic-intensive applications and calculation-intensive applications ... maybe even games) ....
So sorry, I just can't recommend an I5 on a rig that someone invests more than 700$ or 500€ of his hard earned money,,,,
So ... If I'm really determined to spend exactly THAT amount of money on my processor that an i5 costs .... I guess I'd just rather go amd than intel... especially for real work
(I know, sounds kinda strange, but actually the amd is way faster that the intel for what I'm doing - and at a lower price).
Please don't take my opinion as some godsend Law i fabricated out of my sick head .... it's only MY opinion .... but still my opinion.