This is my very first attempt on building a PC and I would love to hear what you guys think of it - both good and bad. It will be used primarily for gaming. That being mostly Dota 2 and CS GO but also the occasionally FarCry and Shadow of Mordor. I am a bit of a narcissist on this area and enjoys seeing the full beauty of a game. Furthermore, I will also be using it for a bit of game- and video editing.
I would love to hear what you think of the build. I am especially in doubt regarding the powersupply, so if anyone can see if I have too much or too little watt, that would be helpful.
All looks good mate, dont worry about the psu as its one of the better units kicking about (superflower oem and a very solid performer). Should be a beast for ya, best of luck with the build. Peace.
Overall it's not a bad build but I would really like to know what your budget is. But I made you something and I would like to hear what you think. Here's where you mad mistakes that I saw but there wasn't many. The CPU cooler isn't good for that price range you would be better with a Cryorig R1 Ultimate. The motherboard has no price so I don't know what you want to do about that same goes for the SSD. The SSD isn't as good as a Samsung 850 Evo though. As far as HDD's go avoid Seagate look into Western Digital and Hitachi. I really recommend Western Digital Black Series as they have a ten year warranty. Oh and the RAM isn't low profile which you will more than likely need for a large air cooler. As for the PSU you made a great choice that one is one of the best. Anyways here's what I came up with if you have any questions and/or concerns feel free to ask.
For that you'd need some lower profile ram, the Kingston hyperx fury's pretty low profile, tend to be cheap and their black ones look nice if you want to keep hold of the nice aesthetics.
That G.SKILL stuff you've got in that build is 42mm high, the R1 ultimate only has 30mm's space, 35mm if you push the fan up a bit.
Aye, if you're only looking for <1TB drives go blue though, there's not much difference besides the warranty, the blacks being supposedly louder and costing more.
if your playing at 1080p, then you really didn't need that 980ti. I saw the total cost of the system before I saw the card and I was just plain bewildered. You could of actually saved money getting a 970, then allocated that extra 300 towards a 2k screen, which that 970 would very little problem gaming on. In fact, it's fully capable at playing MANY games at 2k way above 30fps.
Didn't notice that thanks for the catch and I like Kingston. I'm actually using Kingston HyperX Fury RAM in my current PC.
@viajce He would be better off getting a 390 as it performs better than a 970. On the other hand a 980ti out performs it all but it does stand true to be useless at 1080p
Aye, didn't really realize that. A 980Ti is a bit OP at 1080p. Drop down to a 980 or even a 390 (not a 970, the 390's pretty much on par with it and has 2x more VRAM) and maybe grab a better CPU if you're looking to do some video editing/3D modelling and the like (4790K'd do good).
What resolution are you going to be gaming at? You gonna be editing? Overclocking?
Out of all the people that I've seen come here, your initial plan is pretty much the seemingly best researched one... Pretty sure I saw someone saying they were thinking of going with a 5820K and a GTX 960 recently. lol
Sorry for my late answer, but I've been away for the last week. I'm not quite sure I understand the problem with the current RAM in the build, if you could explain with? I've looked into the storage and have changed both the SSD and the HDD to a Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB and Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB. Not sure the 500GB SSD is a littel overkill. But it didn't seem to be much of a price differ overall compared to before and also I like the idea of not running out of storage anytime soon. I am going to be doing some degree of video editing, but mostly for fun in my spare time. Regarding resolution, I will be using a 4K monitor along with a second 1080P monitor on the side.
nicely done.. the 980ti video solution isn't a waste as it's a single card under 1k in price. In 1080p gaming I'd expect 3 years of white knuckle graphics. At the end of that period you'll hardly remember the differential to a 980. 2-3 years before 4k becomes really viable. Basically, at it infancy we're looking at low refresh rate, limited content, premium on all hardware, plus a great deal of sacrifice to get 60fps. That makes me say that the 980ti isn't a card you'd want to 4k 2 years down the road. It just won't be good enough for what 4k needs to be before you transition. Enjoy the final hoorah of 1080p in glorious fashion. 120fps max settings without blinking will be the norm and partnered up with a quality 144hz monitor probably the most fluid ever viewed in gaming.
Sorry for my late response, but i've been away for the last week. I've taken a look at the build you made. And it looks really good. But I'm not quite sure I understand the part with the low profile RAM, if you could explain that?
It won't fit under the cryorig R1 ultimate, I was talking about @LinuxForYou's suggestion.
That storage solution looks great (a 1TB WD blue and 500GB 850 EVO), should be able to fit a good few games on that SSD. If you're only doing casual video editing it's probably not worth the bump up to a 4790K or an X99 platform. You might want to look into some xeons if you're not going to be overclocking though, there's some quad core hyperthreaded ones that aren't too much over the 4690K, that you can use cheaper, H97 motherboards with. If you're running 4K definitely go for the 980Ti.
The non-overclocking option has a hyperthreaded xeon which'll help when streaming/recording gameplay/video editing etc.
One thing to note about the CPU cooler is: If you're looking for silence and looks, but not so much performance, I'd say go for the dark rock pro 3. If you're looking for performance and looks, but not particularly silence, go for the Cryorig R1. If you're looking for silence and performance but definitely not looks, go for the NH-D15.
Well, RAM is more or less a permanent fixture on a given board so if you do the research and find a cooler that requires non standard low profile RAM just make sure it's worth it on both ends.