Gaming PC for friend

[Daeice]

I made a gaming PC for friend using PC part picker.

http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/XbdhFT

Please tell me if I can improve anything.

[Toast.]

I would replace the one DIMM of Ram with 2 just for better performance in the memory section. However all looks good.

 

Other than those prices.. Don't take this the wrong way, I just don't know but are the prices in (im guessing) Australia alot more expensive than somewhere like the US or Canada? 

[Toast.]

Also one thing I did notice is that you don't have a CPU cooler. Does your friend want to use the Stock? Because for 20-30$ more you can get one that is much quieter. 

[CoolBeans]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($272.00 @ CPL Online) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($39.00 @ Mwave Australia) 

Motherboard: MSI Z97-Gaming 3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($185.00 @ CPL Online) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($95.00 @ Centre Com) 

Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($77.00 @ Mwave Australia) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($63.00 @ Centre Com) 

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 290 4GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  ($469.00 @ PCCaseGear) 

Case: Corsair Graphite Series 230T Black ATX Mid Tower Case  ($99.00 @ PCCaseGear) 

Power Supply: SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($129.00 @ CPL Online) 

Keyboard: Ducky Zero Wired Gaming Keyboard  ($83.00 @ MechKB) 

Mouse: Razer DeathAdder 2013 Wired Optical Mouse  ($44.00 @ CPL Online) 

Total: $1555.00

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-07-28 12:22 EST+1000

[Enderman]

This ^

[Guest]

Go with two ram sticks and get a water cooler or at the very least a aftermarket cooler for that 4770k.

[TheKDub]

with that build I'd suggest dropping the i7  for an i5 4690K, getting two 4gb sticks of ram instead of one 8gb stick s oyou can use dual channel, add a samsung 840 evo 250gb ssd, upgrade the gtx 770 to a gtx 780.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Get a Z87 motherboard and a CPU cooler if you want to overclock the CPU, if you don't then i would suggest dropping the CPU to the Xeon 1230v3 or the Core i7-4770 (non K)

I would suggest a radeon R9 290 instead of the GTX 770 as it's a lot more powerful for gaming and comes with 4GB of VRAM.

You should also consider a cheaper case to get room in the budget for a 120GB SSD to install windows and programs, it's much faster.