Originally Posted by
wndy
Thanks for posting these builds! As I understand it now, your build with the 4690K + Z87 requires BIOS update? What about using the mb tielknight mentioned instead:
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI (costs $90 instead of $60). It also only has 4 SATA 6gb/s instead of 6. I don't know how many are needed? The Z97 has one SATA express instead of none mentioned for the Z87--is that important? (I have been playing catch up today, but still lacking knowledge).
I would include an additional SSD for windows + wow, like tielnknight posted, and the Zotac GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card (Zotac ZT-60901-10M) at $110. It seems like the GTX 660 would be "good enough" from what I've read so far, but what do you think?
Also, if I were buying the parts you posted, would I still need a CPU cooler if I wasn't going to overclock the CPU? Thanks!
p.s. I'm too new to be able to post links, so I left the parts links out of the post.
EDIT: another question, I saw that the motherboard has "onboard ethernet" and I feel like an idiot for even asking this here, but do all motherboards have ethernet built in, as in, I can remove the wired network adapter from my parts list? I assume I will still need to pick up a wireless adapter... is pci express or usb better for that?) OK, thanks again!