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is this rig worth the price?
mkfighter8
Member Posts: 19
in Hardware
i put together a list of parts im thinking or purchasing and just wanted some feedback before i drop my money on them.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/33Jna
is this worth the price should i swap parts out for others? and will this system be able to run games a decent setting? any help would be great!
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Yeah, that's pretty cheap for what you're getting. Though if it's not much a much bigger price increase I would personally get a 1000W Power Supply, but it shouldn't be needed. I just like going on the bigger side than the smaller which is just a personal preference.
With the money you're spending I possibly consider more powerful video card, but then that also could be an upgrade feature down the road sometime later on in the future, because there really isn't much out there that would challenge this build too much. That is your own personal choice though, the card you have picked is good and should meet your needs without a problem.
Depending what you're planning on using the computer for, and if it's in your budget I would reccommend looking at a SSD drive to have your main OS on. But that can also be a future upgrade.
All in all you have a good core build here that would last a fair while.
If you're spending enough to get a better power supply than that, then you might as well get a better power supply. For example:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151119
I don't see any reason to shell out for a Core i7 CPU if gaming is the intended use on your budget. Save some money and get a Core i5-4670K instead. For gaming purposes, the only real difference between the CPUs is $90.
16 GB is rather ridiculous overkill on system memory for gaming. There are good reasons to get that much memory, but no common consumer applications are among them. Save yourself some money by getting 8 GB, in a kit with two 4 GB modules.
And then you can put the money saved on those things to better use. For starters, a computer without an SSD is slow, no matter what else it has. So you might as well get a good SSD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148694
You didn't list an OS, an optical drive, or an aftermarket CPU cooler. You're not overclocking the CPU on the stock cooler, so if you want the option to overclock, you need a better cooler. A simple $30 tower cooler with a few heatpipes will work for a moderate overclock.
If there's room left in the budget, you may also want to get a higher end video card than that. But a lot depends on what you want to spend, and whether you completely forgot about the items listed above and need to make room in the budget for them, or just didn't list them.
And why exactly would he need a 1000 W power supply? Liquid nitrogen overclocking? 3-way CrossFire or SLI? That's a waste of money on his budget.
Have you considered that if you're not sure what to buy, you may wish to wait more than 14 minutes, to allow time to get substantial feedback? Advice is more useful before you buy parts than after.
One Suggestion.
The ram you selected is at the very bottom of the speed range for that motherboard. It would perform considerably better with DDR3 2400 instead of 1600.
Just a thought.
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I didnt mean ordering the parts right away sorry if it seemed that way. and Im looking for all feedback
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Didnt list an OS since i have a copy of windows 7 I can put on it, and always have an optical drive i can use. should i really downgrade to 8 gigs of ram and upgrade the HDD to a SDD?
Are you going to be running multiple virtual machines at the same time? If not, 8GB should be enough.
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Yes to getting an SSD for sure. 8gb of RAM is fine, and if it becomes not enough another 8 is easy to add. You do not need a 1000w PSU f. Just get a decent one like Quiz linked.
Drop the I7 and go with the I5, if nothing else and put that money towards a better GPU. A 760 at least
The performance difference that makes is basically a rounding error unless you're using the integrated graphics (which he won't be) or doing some very unusual stuff that isn't able to get much benefit from CPU cache.
You should definitely get an SSD. The question is whether you should get the SSD instead of a hard drive or in addition to a hard drive. And that depends on how much storage space you need.
It would be strange to have an unused Windows 7 license laying around. If you've previously used an OEM version of the license on another computer, you can't reuse it on a new computer.
And without an optical drive, I'd question how exactly you're going to install Windows 7, anyway, as it comes on a DVD.
Don't listen to this. The speed difference between 1600 and 2400 ram will be fractions of a frame per second when using a video card. Do you really want to spend more money for a bump in speed that is barely even measurable? I wouldn't.
The only time anything over 1600 when it comes to ram makes a difference is when using on board graphics.
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