My New Gaming PC - Help Needed

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Thomas29178

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Ive had a cheap pc for awhile now, and i wanted to get a new one. I dont want to spend over £1625, and im not looking to overclock it either. Its going to be mainly used for gaming, and im going to be using it to play GTA V, and other games as well

Here are the specs, any advice would be wonderful. I think i dont really need to spend this much on certain things including the cooling, but overall im not sure on anything, all i want it to do is to be able to play games at very high settings.


Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache
Case
CORSAIR OBSIDIAN SERIES™ 750D FULL TOWER CASE
Motherboard
ASUS® Z97-PRO GAMER: ATX, USB3.0, SATA 6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE
Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 - 1 DVI, 1 mHDMI, 3 mDP - 3D Vision Ready
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1st Hard Disk
240GB KINGSTON HYPERX SAVAGE SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£69)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i GTX Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£89)
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (£109)
Windows 10 Upgrade
FREE Upgrade to Windows 10 with all Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 Purchases*
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,607.00 including VAT and delivery.
 
Jackversion9

Jackversion9

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Do you plan on using SLI? If so you would need a more powerful PSU and yeah, you wouldn't need to spend that much on cooling (The cooler master evo fan would be more than fine) but for a fraction of the price you could get something like this for a single GPU system. An i5 would be more than fine for gaming :)

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4690 (3.5GHz) 6MB Cache
Case
InWIN GT1 BLACK GAMING CASE
Motherboard
Gigabyte Z97P-D3: ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 - 1 DVI, 1 mHDMI, 3 mDP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT Game with Select GTX 9 Series GPUs!
Free Item
FREE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT Game with Select GTX 9 Series GPUs!
1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£69)
Processor Cooling
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler (£29)
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Windows 10 Upgrade
FREE Upgrade to Windows 10 with all Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 Purchases*
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,203.00 including VAT and delivery.

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Utilize

Enthusiast
Jackversion9 said:
Do you plan on using SLI? If so you would need a more powerful PSU and yeah, you wouldn't need to spend that much on cooling (The cooler master evo fan would be more than fine) but for a fraction of the price you could get something like this for a single GPU system. An i5 would be more than fine for gaming :)
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I agree with this spec although I think an i7 would help you more in the future. It would also help with GTA V since some of the advanced graphics settings are quite CPU intensive. My i5 has a lot of lag when dealing with background processes due to GTA V. I also think 16GB of RAM would be better in the future and would also help with GTA V, since it uses up about 6GB alone. You could include arctic thermal paste if you wanted a slightly cooler CPU - might as well (you have a massive budget). What resolution will you be playing at? You should easily be able to max GTA V at 1080p with this setup.
 
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Thomas29178

New member
Utilize said:
I agree with this spec although I think an i7 would help you more in the future. It would also help with GTA V since some of the advanced graphics settings are quite CPU intensive. My i5 has a lot of lag when dealing with background processes due to GTA V. I also think 16GB of RAM would be better in the future and would also help with GTA V, since it uses up about 6GB alone. You could include arctic thermal paste if you wanted a slightly cooler CPU - might as well (you have a massive budget). What resolution will you be playing at? You should easily be able to max GTA V at 1080p with this setup.
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Ok, i would be playing at 1080p, however im thinking of getting a 144hz monitor, would this affect performance in any way, i dont know much about 144hz monitors.
 
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Utilize

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Thomas29178 said:
Ok, i would be playing at 1080p, however im thinking of getting a 144hz monitor, would this affect performance in any way, i dont know much about 144hz monitors.
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It would not affect performance. 144Hz means that the screen refreshes 144 times per second - obviously this is better than 60Hz and makes the picture on your monitor look and feel smoother. People make the common mistake that more fps = smoother. This does make it smoother, but only up to a point. This is because a 60Hz monitor can only display a maximum of 60fps - anything above this will not have any impact on the smoothness of the game. The same goes for 144Hz monitors (they can only display a maximum of 144fps, anything above that won't make a difference). I don't think it's worth getting a 144Hz monitor; they cost a lot and you probably won't get much more than 60fps on demanding games on ultra settings, making the extra refresh rate useless. It only becomes useful if you turn down settings to get a higher fps.
 
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Thomas29178

New member
Utilize said:
It would not affect performance. 144Hz means that the screen refreshes 144 times per second - obviously this is better than 60Hz and makes the picture on your monitor look and feel smoother. People make the common mistake that more fps = smoother. This does make it smoother, but only up to a point. This is because a 60Hz monitor can only display a maximum of 60fps - anything above this will not have any impact on the smoothness of the game. The same goes for 144Hz monitors (they can only display a maximum of 144fps, anything above that won't make a difference). I don't think it's worth getting a 144Hz monitor; they cost a lot and you probably won't get much more than 60fps on demanding games on ultra settings, making the extra refresh rate useless. It only becomes useful if you turn down settings to get a higher fps.
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Thanks for that, I really appreciate it :)
 
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scup

New member
hi im very interested in adding the amd 9590 processor to a new build im going to get and i was just wondering if the msi 970 gaming series motherboard can handle the 9590 because i have heard that some motherboards actually burn because of the power usage or something like that but some dont. PLEASE HELP

other components:

caviar blue wd 1tb
kingston v300 60gb ssd
16gb corsair vengeance ram 1600mhz
850w psu (xfx core edition)
msi gtx 970 gaming series
 
keynes

keynes

Multiverse Poster
scup said:
hi im very interested in adding the amd 9590 processor to a new build im going to get and i was just wondering if the msi 970 gaming series motherboard can handle the 9590 because i have heard that some motherboards actually burn because of the power usage or something like that but some dont. PLEASE HELP

other components:

caviar blue wd 1tb
kingston v300 60gb ssd
16gb corsair vengeance ram 1600mhz
850w psu (xfx core edition)
msi gtx 970 gaming series
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