So i am building a new Gaming/Streaming PC and i would like everyone's opinion, suggestions, and what not, My price point is $1500 and i need this to be as beastly as possible. When recommending products, Please give a link in your comment if you do not mind.
Mainly what i am asking is what CPU, GPU, and RAM, that is the primary concern, but please by all means give ANY suggestions.
Oh and this, Peripherals are not needed, Only hardware, I have all that is needed on that side :D Welp let's check into AMD then since a recent poster has a good point, it's all about performance. Can't be picky.
Are you getting it like right now? Because the 300 series is going to be announced within the next few days, Otherwise what kind of monitor set up do you have? Or other peripherals? Do you need a microphone/better headphones? Do you want a silent PC or just performance?
There you go, I edited that for you in the DESC What do you mean by the 300 Series? Oh your talking about AMD, Nah Nvidia is preferred when it comes to graphics on my end.
Like i said, peripherals are not needed, Nor monitors, OR mics, I'm already a streamer/youtuber so i have that stuff covered. I only need a new build since mine is a little under powered.
Heatsink is a bit much AS5 is conductive you usually aren't going to want that Are you sure you want a 500gb SSD? You'd be cutting it a bit close with that power supply.
Anyways here wold be my suggestion for you, no need to go overboard on the GPU for a 1080p display, and by the time 4k is affordable you'll still be all set with this CPU, swap it for a 960 if ya really want nvidia, though the 290 is probably the best higher end card to get atm.
and let me know if I missed anything in the build someone.
Total with shipping, at least for me was slightly over $1500.
Interesting choices you made there but to me a lot of them do not make sense to me why you decided to choose them, The SSD is where most of my games, and programs go on, The External HDD you picked is slower then a black but cheaper, yes, And i am NEVER going into 4K unless i am forced to which won't be for about... 10 - 20 years? And i run 3 24in monitors at the moment so the R9 is also nothing i am interested in, I forgot to mention i am a HEAVY modder which is why i am getting one of the highest tier of Graphics for that reason.
EDIT: Even on the linus area people are reccomending the R9 as well.. interesting... I wonder why.
Why would you lock yourself out of HALF the CPU and GPU market? Intel or AMD doesn't matter, all that matters is benchmark results and what price the card is.
If you are going to be streaming and gaming on the same PC you will want a pretty hefty CPU as that will most surely be your bottleneck while you are streaming. Might want to invest into one of Intel's 6 core CPU's if you refuse to go AMD.
Have you considered a capture card? OBS or similar capture without one is going to eat up resources that you might want.
And are you sure you need a K version of the 4790? Will you be overclocking? The 4790 without OCing is already extremely powerful, and will do all the gaming you want. This is just something always asked when planning a build.
I would have a hard time recommending anything because there are not a lot of benchmarks out there that show the performance of your CPU while gaming and streaming(running OBS/xsplit).
I am sure the i7 will stream 1080p and run games well enough, although a 6 core might be better as long as your streaming software can utilize the extra cores(which I think they can).
I have no considered a capture card, If you can recommend any, Please do so, And i will probably not be over clocking unless i can do a simple over clock, Not damage my CPU or lower the life span either, But what i am doing is HEAVY Modding, 200 - 300 mods with ENB, Shaders, 1080p 60FPS with Skyrim, Also Minecraft, HEAVILY modded as well. and any other game that i will grab in the future that is heavily modable, because im TRYING to stick with only moddable games to get a lot of life out of them.
Logan did modded skyrim testing with it a bit back if I remember right, well I remembered wrong I think, where did he do modded skyrim tests.
If you're sticking with the i7 that's easily doable.
If minecraft/skyrim are your main games those would both pretty easily fit onto a 240gb SSD. As for the hard drive front the average 7200RPM desktop hard drive isn't really all that slow, it's when you compare SSDs to laptop drives that really makes a difference.
I'd imagine people are recommending AMD because it's the best bang for your buck, plus nvidia has been up to some shady things lately.
Otherwise the i7 would be fine, but naturally the x99 platform would be better overall for streaming/rendering, though I think the performance in games is negligible.
AS5 thermal paste is just fine, I use it myself. I was a total noob to building a PC just a year ago and I was totally fine using it multiple times, even on my friend's consoles. If you live near a Microcenter then you can get a deal for the CPU, motherboard and I think RAM. Get a Z97 motherboard, and might as well get higher speed RAM, its the same price in most places.
550W PSU is cutting it close but you should be fine if you dont plan on adding anything else to the system, but that fan is gonna be running almost all the time. Seeing as you'll probably undoubtedly be doing video editing, you might want to get at least a 2TB HDD, and I'd recommend just getting a 250GB SSD for OS and editing programs, unless you plan on capturing one video at a time to the SSD and then editing immediately and saving the final edit on the HDD, then a bigger SSD makes sense.
Do you still have plans for your old rig? You could save some money or put more towards you new rig by selling it or reusing the case and other components. In any case, best of luck and have fun building.
Welll my old computer is going to my friend and she is really getting into gaming, She is actually sending me the money to build my new rig then im sending her my old rig.
