New Build!

[Juno86]

I'm planning a new build from scratch this year, made it my New Year's resolution to build it by hand by scratch. I picked out all the pieces I want and was curious as to some of yours opinions. I put my budget at $3300 and snuck in at $3160.

Build List.

[chazus]

I would fill out the Build Sticky info so we can better determine what would suit your needs.

Second, I would shave off about... $1500 off the system, just to start. Pretty much everything in there is overkill and would provide little benefit for gaming. It's literally just throwing money away.

Lastly, I'll move this to the build/upgrade subforum!

[Cyrops]

I wouldn't use RAM with 1.6v, instead I would pick this kit:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16820231620

And why two SSD's? And I would go for WD new black series 2TBx2 in RAID vs 4TB samsung

[Juno86]

Budget $3300
Resolution. Not sure what is meant by this?
Games / Settings Desired Max settings and smooth running on WoW, World of Tanks, Bioshock Infinite, Rome Total War 2, Stacraft 2, Diablo 3
Any other intensive software or special things you do (Frequent video encoding, 3D modeling, etc) No.
Country Canada.

I was thinking with two SSD's I could have one specifically for Operating System, and one strictly for games. The reason I picked a 4 TB single HD is because I collect A LOT of movies and TV shows.

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Budget $3300
Resolution. Not sure what is meant by this?
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pretty sure the resolution you're gonna play on, i.e monitor resolution, 1920x1080p or you gonna go yolo on a 4k screen etc

[chazus]

Cut the budget by half.. You don't need that kind of hardware for what you're doing. You probably only need one SSD as well. No point splitting it, really.

[Juno86]

Cut the budget by half.. You don't need that kind of hardware for what you're doing. You probably only need one SSD as well. No point splitting it, really.

I'm mostly aiming for a build I'm not gonna have to spend every couple of years updating, so if I spend a little more now I have zero issue doing that. Crazy or no crazy?

1920x1080 I'm currently using but if I do end up cutting down price I may spring for one of those crazy 4k mointors.

[chazus]

I'm mostly aiming for a build I'm not gonna have to spend every couple of years updating, so if I spend a little more now I have zero issue doing that. Crazy or no crazy?

Crazy. Spending more money above the ~$1200 mark will not 'extend' or 'future proof'. It will, however, waste a ton of money.

The ultra high end stuff you were getting does not perform any more on games than stuff half the price. It's like saying throwing a bunch of tires in your car's trunk will make it go faster, because the 4 tires it has make it go in the first place.

I'd just get a 4670K, an R9-290, a nice ssd, 8gb of ram (can get 16 later if you REALLY want to), and a nice case, PSU, and whatever little fixins and keyboard/mouse/speakers/ headphones.. That'll come out to like 1500.

Basically, you can do 1 of 2 things.

1) Spend 3000 now, and another 1500-3000 in 3-4 years
2) Spend 1500 now, and another 1500 in 3-4 years.

The gaming performance of either option is the same.

[Juno86]

Then I've been approaching this wrong. Essentially regardless how much I spend now on a top of the line machine, in 3-4 years your pretty much gonna have to replace everything anyways.. Hmm, economic is the way to go then? Okay, scratch the build and time to go back to the drawing board.

[chazus]

Then I've been approaching this wrong. Essentially regardless how much I spend now on a top of the line machine, in 3-4 years your pretty much gonna have to replace everything anyways.. Hmm, economic is the way to go then? Okay, scratch the build and time to go back to the drawing board.

I was pretty much going to say that. The problem is largely that.. .no matter how good hardware you get, it gets old after 3-4 years. Not only that, but some things simply don't benefit from going 'up'/

You wont need 32gb of ram. Nothing will need that in 3 years. You may not even need 16. The higher CPU just doesn't... do anything better. It'd designed for enterprise use, largely.

All the other stuff is just expensive for the sake of being expensive. They don't benefit you at all.

I can put together in a few moments a ~$1600ish build that will basically do what you want, and can discuss from there.

[Deleted]

this would work just fine for u:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($249.79 @ DirectCanada)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($84.99 @ Memory Express)
Motherboard: Asus Z87-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($146.43 @ DirectCanada)
Memory: Patriot Signature 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($61.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($186.34 @ DirectCanada)
Storage: Seagate 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($189.04 @ TigerDirect Canada)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card ($549.99 @ Memory Express)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case ($109.99 @ Memory Express)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($86.60 @ DirectCanada)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($17.82 @ DirectCanada)
Total: $1682.98
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-08 22:20 EST-0500)

[Juno86]

I was pretty much going to say that. The problem is largely that.. .no matter how good hardware you get, it gets old after 3-4 years. Not only that, but some things simply don't benefit from going 'up'/

You wont need 32gb of ram. Nothing will need that in 3 years. You may not even need 16. The higher CPU just doesn't... do anything better. It'd designed for enterprise use, largely.

All the other stuff is just expensive for the sake of being expensive. They don't benefit you at all.

I can put together in a few moments a ~$1600ish build that will basically do what you want, and can discuss from there.

Would love it man! Thanks for the help.

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this would work just fine for u:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($249.79 @ DirectCanada)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($84.99 @ Memory Express)
Motherboard: Asus Z87-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($146.43 @ DirectCanada)
Memory: Patriot Signature 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($61.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($186.34 @ DirectCanada)
Storage: Seagate 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($189.04 @ TigerDirect Canada)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card ($549.99 @ Memory Express)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case ($109.99 @ Memory Express)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($86.60 @ DirectCanada)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($17.82 @ DirectCanada)
Total: $1682.98
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-08 22:20 EST-0500)

Nice build! I think I would upgrade to the Blu-ray Burner, different case and a bigger SSD. But everything else seems spot on, thanks for the help man!