Good afternoon everyone,
Im just looking for some advice, comments, or any piece of useful information before i go off and spend a good chunk of change on my first PC build.
My budget is $2000 MAX and its all from scratch.
Before the specs, my goals for this PC is to:
1. Completely replace my PS3 and my Dell craptop that can't play minecraft or rust on simple graphics.
2. Have the power to play most of this years games at high quality (Assassins Creed, Battlefield 4, Watch Dogs)
3. Be able to upgrade as time goes on without needed to buy too many pieces again and again.
Also all prices are from newegg because i haven't shopped around for best deals yet from other sites but i would prefer to buy most from only 1 or 2 sites
So let me know what you think
Graphics Card - GeForce GTX 770---------------------------------------------$329.99
CPU - Intel Core i5-4670K----------------------------------------------------$239.99
Cooling Fan - Cooler Master TPC 812------------------------------------------$ 69.99
Motherboard - MSI Z87-GD65-------------------------------------------------$187.99
RAM - G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (2X4GB)--------------------------------------------$ 82.99
SSD - SanDisk Extreme II 120GB-----------------------------------------------$ 99.99
HDD - Seagate Barracuda 7200 1.5TB------------------------------------------$108.00
PSU - SeaSonic M12II 650 SS-650AM 650W------------------------------------$ 99.99
Case - Rosewill THOR V2------------------------------------------------------$139.99
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Computer Grand Total (No OS/monitor/keyboard/mouse)------------------------$1358.92
So with all that gone from $2000, i figure atleast $150 for OS and the rest on everything else
Any feedback or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time
Edit
I left out an optical drive because there dirt cheap from almost anywhere so they don't really factor into my final cost
Go with the Samsung EVO 120gb ssd. It's the best there is and cheaper. Scandisk uses ancient sandforce controllers that are really bad.
Thank you Levelog, saved me 10 bucks
Anything else?
I'd also stick with an 212 EVO or bump up a couple more bucks for the PH-TC14PE since they perform plenty well depending on your price range
for the cheaper, go for evo, for the better, go for tc14
[url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/37GzI[/url]
This would be my recommendation for you. It leaves you $300 for a keyboard and mouse of your choice, and to fully outfit your case in fans.
I doubled the SSD with a far better performing one, added 500gb of HDD storage for cheaper while keeping the same brand/performance, bumped your video card up a notch for a beast of a card, put in a better CPU cooler, gave you a more cost effective PSU with just as good quality, changed the motherboard for a touch cheaper but will be unnoticeably different, cheaper RAM, and you can afford a good mechanical keyboard, gaming mouse, fans, speakers, and a headset with the 300 left over.
There's really no reason not to get an IPS monitor though.
[QUOTE=Levelog;44196586][url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/37GzI[/url]
This would be my recommendation for you. It leaves you $300 for a keyboard and mouse of your choice, and to fully outfit your case in fans.
I doubled the SSD with a far better performing one, added 500gb of HDD storage for cheaper while keeping the same brand/performance, bumped your video card up a notch for a beast of a card, put in a better CPU cooler, gave you a more cost effective PSU with just as good quality, changed the motherboard for a touch cheaper but will be unnoticeably different, cheaper RAM, and you can afford a good mechanical keyboard, gaming mouse, fans, speakers, and a headset with the 300 left over.[/QUOTE]
Thank you for your recommendations, it looks perfect and great for overclocking.
Only one real question...do I really need Windows 8, maybe it's because I didn't use it for along time and I hated the interface.
I'm also really used to Windows 7 but if it's more efficient ill switch.
[QUOTE=Lilyo;44196759]There's really no reason not to get an IPS monitor though.[/QUOTE]
I will be looking into the IPS monitor, Thank you for bringing that up Lilyo
And as im looking around the monitors...there's too many choices for today ill finish researching on it over the next week.
Thanks again everyone for all the recommendations
Honestly I'd go with Windows 8. It runs noticeably smoother and faster, and has some far improved back end features. Install ClassicStart and it will just be like you installed an extremely optimized Win7. I was very hesitant to install at first but I am very glad I did.
Even without the classicstart, 8.1 isn't [I]really[/I] that different from 7 as most people say, it still has the same inner style core, just the outer side has changed and not really even that much is different basically the start is different and the look, but that is pretty much it. And Honestly I like it a lot better than 7.
I for one am not a fan of the metro tiles whatsoever, and I have not had to use it once on my home PC with ClassicStart. So even if you really really dislike the 8 metro style, you can still use 8 no problem.
I hated metro just cause I'm not a media person. I don't give a shit about 90% of the shit it comes with, so what you can do is delete all the stuff except desktop and then put your programs that you use in it, and it basically acts as a windows 7 start menu but looks nicer. Or you can use start8
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