Hey guys so I might finally get my first gaming PC after 9 yrs with the same laptop. I decided to go with either a 4690k or a 4790k but I'm unsure of which to pick.
I'm currently 17 and will go straight into College right out of high school and most likely will be unable to upgrade for the 4 yrs seeing as I'm part of a rather low income family and will likely have to pay school myself.
So with that in mind I was thinking of going with the 4790k to get as much power now with hyperthreading to last seeing as the next time I'll upgrade I'll likely have to get a whole new system and I also plan on getting into Streaming, but honestly dont know how they compare at that.
What do you guys think would be the best way to go with this? Here is the planned build with the 4690k. Should I go with the 4790k I will likely drop the 480gb SSD to a 240gb/120gb
2 Recommendations, get the 4790k and don't work about the processor Holding you back for a couple years and get a 240gb ssd, then switch the seagate barracuda to a western digital blue 1tb. I don't trust seagate's, and wd is just my preference...
Couple things. That SSD is using TLC Nand which I don't trust at all, just because reliability is always questioned when it comes to TLC and that ssd also isn't using a very good controller. I'd definitely switch that to a better unit. I also don't particularly like the rosewill hive series, but its not something that has to be changed.
I looked it up as I hadnt thought about xeons. Seems to have a whole bunch of good reviews. i7 performance + HT for i5 price is seen on just about every review. I have a question I'm unsure of though
I know xeons can be overclocked but even if the xeon cant the 390 still can right? I want to start to learn to overclock and want to atleast be able to tweak something. Also I dont care for free sync but given the lower cost option of the Xeon I might go for two lower cost 1080p monitors.
overclocking is pretty much pointless at this point as far as gaming goes, any 3ghz or higher Intel chip can game at well over 60 fps, it only matters really for 144hz gaming, which doesn't matter all that much as the only thing that's really going to help you in is like CSGO which is easy to run already
free-sync is your friend, if not then just get a 1440p IPS display, more vertical space compared to a 1080p is great
Its not for the performance gain or anything like that. I simply want to learn to OC, learn more about hardware. I got an addiction to learning about hardware a year ago when I first started learning about PCs but I've never had anything to tinker with beyond my years old laptop so I want to do it.
As for free sync. Again I dont really care for it. I''d much rather have two monitors over free sync or 1440p right now. I've never played on anything above 800x600 or watched anything outside theatres above 720p since my laptop cant do any better so I'm perfectly fine with 1080p and two displays if possible.
1440p is leaps ahead of 1080p for general productivity, and if you ever try to run one display in portrait a 1080p display doesn't have enough horizontal pixels to do it
added a 1440p + 1080p display
but seriously adaptive sync is by and large worth it, a 1080p IPS display is only $100 down the line if you really want a secondary display
the stock cooler is going to be fine, you'd want like the hyper 212 if you wanted a cooler system
as far as RAM goes it's just whatever's cheaper, single channel vs dual channel doesn't matter for much nowadays anyways so might as well keep the upgrade path open
although the board in that build is supposed to be H97, not sure what happened there
you can overclock a GPU on anything, but it's again not entirely necessary, a stock 390 is pretty capable at 1440p
if you wanted to stick with the 1080p display you'd want to go for like 3 of them, although that does let you do surround gaming which the 390 is fairly capable of, so the choice really comes down to productivity or wide screen gaming I guess
I meant to say quieter not cooler, but cooler as well
Would having the second 1080p monitor outputting something basic like a single Chrome page affect 1440p fps? With something like Battlefield or Fallout.
Oh ok thanks. I have never thought to look it up as I never thought I'd possibly have dual monitors within the decade of me learning about PCs.
So Here Is what I'll most likely end up with.
Changed a couple things.
Dual RAM sticks. 1 just seems weird to me. Haf 912. Cable management. Keyboard/Mouse. Forgot to mention it. Never had anything but laptop so I need them. 100ft Cat5e. Wireless dongle is for any time its needed. Will Usually be on wired.
Should probably invest in CAT6, it's not much more, I just picked up this one, 200 feet for 20 bucks, buy the extra cable, might come in handy sometime
I've had a HAF 912, it's a pretty big case, check out the N200 from coolermaster, much more reasonable size
