My brother is looking into buying a new pc for PC gaming and some coding and AutoCAD for his college. I told him that his specs look pretty good to me but he's stubborn and wants more opinions.
Intel Core i7 4770k
Corsair H100i
Asus Z87-Pro (V-Edition)
Corsair Vengance 2 x 4 gb in blue
Seagate Barracuda 2tb HDD
Sapphire Radeon 7950 *Already own this*
Corsair RM Series RM650 650watt powersupply
We dont know what case (He's a picky fuck)
Lite on CD drive...
Please give me opinions on every part, he wants to make sure he gets all his bang for his buck.
Also need some ideas on Mice and Keyboards!
Probably could get more ram, especially if he plans to do anything sort of editing or rendering.
16GB of ram and I don't recommend an amd card for this kind of stuff especially an amd gaming card, go for an nvidia quadro card.
I saw that but it would be better to use a card optimized for what you are doing and even then autocad isn't that intensive on the gpu so you don't need to spend much to get a card made for cad programs. Grab a quadro 410 that should be more then enough.
The 7950 will do just fine.
Adding a Quadro will add to the price. >.>
The main focus is gaming, he uses autoCAD lightly so the gpu was the best choice, picked it up for like 200$ last month
If he won't be gaming with the rig he can sell the 7950 and then get a quardo then he is subtracting from the price.
Sorry didn't see that it was for gaming too.
You didn't say wheather or not you are over clocking, if you aren't you don't need the h100.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/25M2C
Base build. 16GBs of RAM at a higher clock speed will help a lot with AutoCAD.
I would also recommend picking up an SSD around 120-256GBs.
PSU is cheap after mir.