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First PC Gaming - Overclocking Build

tyndorael
Level 7
Hello!!!

If you can help me with advice, recommendation or anything its appreciate a lot.
I don't have anything of this so if you think i need to change something tell me 🙂

My build:

CPU: i5-4680k 3.5Ghz
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VII Hero.
RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB
Graphic card: Gigabyte r9 280.
SSD: Samsung 840 Evo 120 GB.
HD: WD Blue 1000 GB 7200 RPM.
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX750B (750W).
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 240M.

I play WoW mainly but i want to play some new games like GTA V 🙂
Also i use a lot of software development tools like Visual Studio, Unity, Eclipse and more xD .... so.... its ok this build?

Sorry for my english... i speak spanish XD

Thank you.
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Nate152
Moderator
Hello tyndorael and welcome

Here's a few changes I would make.

Graphic card http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1086858-REG/asus_strix_gtx970_dc2oc_4gd5_strix_gtx970_with_fac...

Ram: G.Skill trident X

As I understand those software development programs eat up a lot of RAM, you might want to go with 16GB 2400MHz or 32GB of 1600Mhz. I say 32GB of 1600MHz because anything over 1600MHz is not guaranteed to work.

I'm not sure what you're paying for the 4690k but you can get the 4790k at a decent price here.

http://www.microcenter.com/product/434176/Core_i7-4790K_40GHz_LGA_1150_Boxed_Processor

Other than that all looks good to me.

I'm going to second this, the G-Skill Trident X is beautiful RAM. It may not be on the QVL for the board, but it definitely runs on it.

AliceInBroadband wrote:
I'm going to second this, the G-Skill Trident X is beautiful RAM. It may not be on the QVL for the board, but it definitely runs on it.



yeah its beautiful. definitely its going to be in my build 🙂

X-ROG
Level 15


Double your memory and your SSD:
1866/2133 is pretty cheap now iirc, or even 1600 is 'fine' if you're budget doesn't stretch.
GTA 5 is about ~50GB install which will eat your 120GB drive. 240GBs are pretty affordable these days.
Look at the R9 285 or GTX 960. Both are faster than the R9 280 and shouldn't be a big price diff. Ignore the fanboy ranting about '128bit' on the 960 - it's more efficient and the in game results performs just as well.

To offset the cost:
Drop the PSU to ~600W, that's plenty for 1GPU and two drives. I would go as far to say even a quality 500W is fine on that build, but it doesn't leave much room for upgrading if you want to go multi-GPU in future, perhaps. The Seidon 240M is lovely and quiet - I use one - although if you're not into overvolting you can get away with 120M on that chip, even with some OC.

tyndorael
Level 7
Thanks you guys!!

Im going to modify my build with this improvements and look if i can afford this changes... my country is very expensive (if i buy in usa shipping cost and taxes are stupidly expensive XD)

X-ROG
Level 15
What's your local e-shop? Or do you import yourself?

MarshallR@ASUS wrote:
What's your local e-shop? Or do you import yourself?


e-local: https://www.pcfactory.cl

if i import the things i want plus shipping cost and taxes the prices are the same from e-local.

tyndorael wrote:
e-local: https://www.pcfactory.cl

if i import the things i want plus shipping cost and taxes the prices are the same from e-local.


Aye South America is a tough market, and Chile's scale/shape doesn't lend itself to low cost transportation unfortunately 😞 Such is life! Bring on the teleporters please.

MarshallR@ASUS wrote:
Aye South America is a tough market, and Chile's scale/shape doesn't lend itself to low cost transportation unfortunately 😞 Such is life! Bring on the teleporters please.



yeah is tough.... im going to save money until i can buy this build 😉 thanks for the help.