Hey guys, I just bought a bunch of parts to build, hopefully, a really nice PC for gaming, streaming, and minor video editing. If anyone here has any insight into how these parts are going to perform for me, and what I can expect to be able to do and play on it, I'd really appreciate the advice.
Should these parts work well together? Are there any potential conflicts? Should I buy more case fans? How well should I be able to run certain games like CS:GO, ESO, GTA V, and Skyrim? Any help is welcome and appreciated.
Your build looks basicly very sollid to me. But 1000W psu is a bit overkill to be honnest. A decent 650W psu would basicly be more then enough for a single gpu setup like this. I would rather grab a decent 650W psu and spend a few extra bucks into a more decent motherboard if you like to play arround with some advanced overclocking.
EVGA supernova 650W G2 for example is a very decent unit.
You might ofc also concider to look into a Skylake setup with the i7-6700K on a Z170 board to grab the latest platform. But that highly depends on the price diffrence between the 4790K Haswell and 6700K Skylake currently.
I would look at Skylake, and also look at getting an i5. For your uses you really won't ever need a i7 and thus you are sort of tossing a ton of money out the window. If you plan on streaming or video recording and will have a copy of said video locally, I would highly recommend having a much larger hard drive or a NAS depending on what you need. Video editing can get quite hungry especially for games. Game videos tend to consist of hours upon hours of footage before you can even get a 10 minute montage or whatever.
I agree with @MisteryAngel, the PSU that you have chosen has way too many watts for your build, even if you upgrade your machine in the future. I would spend for a higher 80+ rating (Platinum) with lower wattage since the price will be about the same (or lower) and do even better for your build.
Dunno if you want a quiet case too as the HAL series is not known for a low decibel rating.
There is no reason to get a "spare" case fan... they don't magically die in the middle of something. Waste of money. Buy what you need now, if you need more buy more later.
If your going with a 970 you may want to do the 390 instead. Slightly better performance and you get 8gb of vram vs 3.5gb. Unless your wanting to stick with nvidia which is fine. I always really liked the 970. Very powerful cool and quite.
Not bad of a build here but you should have consulted here on Tek Syndicate on what to built with 1600 smackers since you could get better performance. The only issue that I would have seen is the 3.5gb of fast ram that the 970 has. Combine that with Modding Skyrim and GTA V. Modding Skyrim eats VRAM like if Pac Man had a serious case of the munchies.
This is incredibly similar to my build (although I'm running 2 780Tis), and I have to say for all the stuff I do it is a very capable machine and will definitely work fine for you if you're looking to run GTA V and Skyrim and whatnot. I do agree that the PSU is overpowered, mine is too, you could probably get away with an 850 or 750. Definitely agree that cards with more VRAM are preferable to both the 970 as well as what I have.