My friend helped me to come up with a gaming build around the $1000 mark (including monitor and peripherals) and I wanted to see what you guys thought of it, or if I should switch out a few parts. I'm intending to use this to play the most current games on decent graphical settings with >60 FPS (with the exception of Arma 3).
Easy, drop the fancy mouse and keyboard for a better GPU. Later on, you can get the comforts of the nice input devices. Seriously don't skimp on core components for comfort, it will only hamper your experience more.
Well if you drop those two it puts you into R9 380 / GTX 960 territory. If you scrape another couple bucks together you could even pull up to the R9 390 and GTX 970.
I leave this choice up to you:
R9 380 - $200 from MSI R9 290 - $235 from PowerColor GTX 960 - $185 from EVGA
Or
R9 390 - $335 from all brands R9 290X - $315 from Sapphire GTX 970 - $315 from Zotac
I put the R9 290 and R9 290X in there because frankly they still crush 1080p, and are still priced well. I recommend the R9 290, it will outpace the R9 380 by a couple steps and be behind the R9 390/GTX 970 by a couple more. If you are a diehard nVidia fan, save up for the GTX 970 because the GTX 960 is a worthless excuse of a GPU and should have been better.
Agree with the notion that your input devices are overpriced for a 1000$ build. Emphasis on the 115$ mouse, seriously? over 10% of the budget burnt on a device that gives you marginal better aim in competitive shooters (which Arma certainly isn't). If you must spend that money on a keyboard I would spend it on a mechanical, not a rubber-dome with backlighting.
As far as I know the 4460 does not overclock since it has no K on it? If you do not overclock a cheaper motherboard will be fine (maybe H97 which is a 2nd gen LGA1150 chipset meant for business applications which means: no overclocking and no SLI/Crossfire).*
Stepping down from medium priced Z97 to H97 or a cheaper Z97 will probably make you lose out on m.2 support. But since you are budget constricted you will probably go with a normal SATA SSD as they offer more Gig for your bucks in the future.
Your next CPU upgrade will probably be not socket 1150. Nor will it be DDR3, so 2x4 Gig is about as future proof as it needs to be. I have 3 DIMMs installed (2x4 1x8) and I only need it when I'm not gaming (well except minecraft seperately started in a Server instance and a Client instance).
The Power supply might be OP for your system needs though, but I do not think a PSU with less wattage will be significantly cheaper. 80+ Gold and 650 Watts for 65$ is a good deal as far as my market knowledge is concerned.
*Technically there are possibilities to overclock that too with a H97 but there won't be much in it.
is a bit more solid. You don't need a Z97 board. nor a G500 when the 502 is half the price. Instead you can up to an SSD and get an AMD R290. Also 500 watt is more than enough for any single GPU build.
and to @Garfield the H97 is not the business line that is more with the B85 but most of all Q87. H97 is more enthousiast related, but yeah more than enough for his build since the 4460 doesn't allow overclocking.
My build is a bit over 1000 bucks but in the end for your feel a lot faster. Lastly yes the G500 is an awesome mouse but I think the mouse is EOL since I bought mine for like 55 bucks.
You're right. B is business and H is the not-quite-Z. Mixed that up. Except for the RAM color the only thing I would do is maybe get a cheaper keyboard and no DVD drive and get a hard drive. Unless OP has an external hard drive, then my point becomes moot.
true I can't remember the last time I used optical :D and well keyboard is personal so I kept in just for the sake of it. I could care less of ram color but they also have blue ;) As for not throwing in a hdd is that generally I tend to re-use hdd's on builds a lot I don't care for hdd speeds either so in the end I just get WD greens or similar for non important data. I mean my download drive is probably 8-9 years old Samsung drive :)
Okay. You could have added that in your first post ;) I was concerned that you thought "250 Gigs? Ain't never going to be full". Unless you have to buy IDE to SATA adapters it's all good.
I recycled some old drives a couple of months ago. The magnets are now keyholders. One of the platters is my shaving mirror.
I'm insisting on the RAM because I now own a set of steel blue and not-quite-so steel blue HyperX RAM and it's bugging me out.
If you still need a mouse, you can grab something like the G402 from logitech, less than half the price of the G500 and far more modern. The G500 is freaking ancient, I know, I use its predecessor. Same with the keyboard, unless you 400% need the macro keys, you can play ARMA with a normal 10 USD keyboard, it's not that special a game, the G510 is also just another membrane keyboard, not different from many aside from the fact that Logitech did some good work on it to make it feel good.
I would also drop the case fans, you don't need them, the N400 has plenty of airflow. Same with the optical drive. You can do whatever with that money.
The G500 is EOL anyway but beyond that it's just a great mouse there is nothing ancient about it. Like you should give 2 cents about it that it can do 9600 dpi Even hardcore FPSers generally don't go above 2000 and even that is pretty damn high. With that you have 3 programmable keys and on the fly 3 sensitivity settings which you can setup. Don't fall in the PR talk crap. If you think you need more than 3200 dpi you need to see a doctor imo.
The only reason I chose the G502 is that it is the closest thing to the G500. which is just readily available but the G400 will do good as well.
If you want to go the cheap route then he could just get the Coolermaster Storm Devastator Bundle for less than 30 bucks. and then have a pretty decent keyboard and mouse for a lot less.