New gaming PC build (First time)

[duuude]

Hows this for a build? Budget is $2000

Tips and recommendations and advise are highly appreciated

Location is south australia

 

Case: Fractal design R4 Mid tower 

GPU: Gigabyte Geforce GTX 780 3GB

CPU: Intel core i5 4690k quad core

Power Supply: Corsair 650 80 plus gold power supply

HD: Seagate 2TB 

SSD: 120 GB

Mother Board: ASRock 197 Extreme6 intel LGA 1150 ATX 

CPU cooler:Corsair hydro series H90 liquid CPU cooler

Fans: Corsair Quiet Edition 120mm cooling fans
RAM: G skill Ripjaws 8 GB

[mapegl]

Case: Fractal design R4 Mid tower 

nice! Beautiful, quiet, well built.

 

GPU: Gigabyte Geforce GTX 780 3GB

also nice, 290 is cheaper and just as powerful! Your choice!

 

CPU: Intel core i5 4690k quad core

noice!! Will last long.

 

Power Supply: Corsair 650 80 plus gold power supply

nice!

 

HD: Seagate 2TB 

just an HDD, good enough.

 

SSD: 120 GB

maybe get 256? It is not that expensive anymore.

 

Mother Board: ASRock 197 Extreme6 intel LGA 1150 ATX 

I like ASROCK, I know many people don't but I never had any issues with them.

 

CPU cooler:Corsair hydro series H90 liquid CPU cooler

That cooler is quite expensive. For almost the same price you could get an NH-D 15 or an H100i. I would take a big air-cooler.

 

Fans: Corsair Quiet Edition 120mm cooling fans

Should be fine, can't say too much about them

RAM: G skill Ripjaws 8 GB

Try getting the faster RAM, at least 1866. Usually doesn't make a huge price difference and in some scenarios it is nice to have. Just llok at what your mobo supports and get as fast as possible. Here it is almost no difference in price whether you get 2400 or 1600 RAM.

 

 

EDIT: Just looked at PCPartPicker Australia and I saw that the h100i is much more expensive where you live, but still the NH-D 14 is cheaper, the NHD-15 almost the same price as the H90 and they will give you very quiet performance and great overclocking headroom.

[KPZ211997]

What SSD brand are you going to buy?

 

Also go for R9 290 instead of 780 to save some money while maintaining equal or even a bit better gaming performance

[Manny Calavera]

Check prices on R9 290 if you dont mind having AMD card. It can be overclocked and achieve performance pretty close to 780. Also has 1gb of vram more but it runs a bit hotter.

 

Everything else looks pretty amazing and high end.

[Dude]

Buy an R9 290 and I will forgive you for stealing my name

[TheRunningOtaku]

PCPartPicker part list: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/TtCV23

Price breakdown by merchant: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/TtCV23/by_merchant/

 

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

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($109.00 @ Mwave Australia) 

Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme6 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($198.00 @ PLE Computers) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($99.00 @ CPL Online) 

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($139.00 @ Centre Com) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($93.00 @ Centre Com) 

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 4GB WINDFORCE Video Card  ($459.00 @ Mwave Australia) 

Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($145.00 @ CPL Online) 

Power Supply: Corsair CSM 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($139.00 @ PCCaseGear) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  ($115.00 @ CPL Online) 

Case Fan: Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 39.9 CFM 120mm  Fans  ($32.00 @ CPL Online) 

Total: $1800.00

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-21 20:32 EST+1000

 

Here's the list! It's slightly below your budget so you can get a monitor/etc

I swapped the CPU cooler for something that's cooler *and* cheaper

Plus I have a bias towards air cooling since I have a phobia that the pump will randomly die on me one day and I'll kill my system

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cooling/2014/05/01/noctua-nh-d15-review/2

Source that it's cooler by a bit

290 is better value and the higher VRAM doesn't hurt either!

256GB 840 Evo is better cost/GB, your budget allows for it, and it'll give you more room to store games. (with games taking up 20-40GB nowadays)

If you wanted to improve it I'd bump it up to a 290x but those are really hot... I'd also swap out the Noctua fans with ones that aren't poop brown, maybe the grey Noctua ones that just came out!

It's a great build and gives you a bit of room to expand (though personally I'd throw a larger PSU on there, but your power consumption is only ~500W Tops at the moment)