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If your usage will lean heavily towards gaming the 4690k and 2 x 970 is probably the better choice.

 

The trade off is that your rendering and editing times will be increased.

 

Personally I'd drop the second SSD and go with a 4790k.  Adding storage devices being a more easily justified future expense as compared to replacing the CPU.

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Guys,I am thinking of buying a new pc worth 2500 dollars not including the monitor which is going to be either 4K or 2K. Here are the specs:

I7 4770K

Gd65 gaming from Msi

Rm 650

MSI 980

16 gigs ram (whichever's cheap)

Corsair 760t

Corsair H100i

2 X cheap 120 gig SSD's in raid 0

Guys I know these type of questions are very common but if you could please recommend some quick things by which I could increase my performance, it would be heavenly. Also, nearly everything is more expensive in India. Graphics card's 866$

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your "whatever is cheapest" ram scares me.

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your "whatever is cheapest" ram scares me.

Why ???? I would go with hyperx for ram.

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CPU: i3-4130 Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S2PH RAM: 8GB Kingston hyperx fury HDD: WD caviar black 1TB GPU: MSI 750TI twin frozr II Case: Aerocool Xpredator X3 PSU: Corsair RM650

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your "whatever is cheapest" ram scares me.

ram is ram nothing to really worry about.

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What will you use the PC for?

Scarlet Knight: Intel Core i3 6100 || Antec A40 Pro CPU Cooler || MSI Z170A Gaming M5 || Kingston HyperX 16GB DDR4-2133MHz || Samsung 850 Evo 120GB || Seagate Barracuda 1TB || Gigabyte G1 Gaming R9 390X 8GB || Seasonic M12II 620W || In Win 503 || Corsair Strafe || Steelseries Kinzu V3 MSI Edition || Dell UltraSharp U2414H || Xiaomi Alumunium Mouse Pad (S)

 

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Console: PlayStation 4 500GB CUH-1206A

Tablet: iPad Air 2 16GB Wi-fi Only

Laptop: MSI GE62 (i7 4720HQ || 8GB DDR3 || NVIDIA GTX960M || Samsung 650 EVO 120GB + 1TB HDD)

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your "whatever is cheapest" ram scares me

his logic is good. 

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your "whatever is cheapest" ram scares me.

ram is not something to realy worry about if you just chose a well known brand

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ram is not something to realy worry about if you just chose a well known brand

Go with kingston.

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mehh.. looks like a good build... not much to change.. maybe a mobo with z97 chipset and m.2, and wait for a cheaper 10gb/s m.2 ssd, rather than 120gb in raid

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Guys 1) Keep in mind that proves are high in India and m.2 SSDs have not come yet

2) I will be using the pc for 4K or 2K gaming and light video editing and 3d rendering later.

Thanks for sparring your finger to answer my questions though. :)

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Guys 1) Keep in mind that proves are high in India and m.2 SSDs have not come yet

2) I will be using the pc for 4K or 2K gaming and light video editing and 3d rendering later.

Thanks for sparing your finger to answer my questions though. :)

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Sorry for the two consecutive replies and as a hindsight, I saw Austin Evans's video and he included nearly 1000$ graphics cards. So, should I go with a 4690K and two 970s?

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If your usage will lean heavily towards gaming the 4690k and 2 x 970 is probably the better choice.

 

The trade off is that your rendering and editing times will be increased.

 

Personally I'd drop the second SSD and go with a 4790k.  Adding storage devices being a more easily justified future expense as compared to replacing the CPU.

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well like I said.. buy a mobo with m.2 not to buy an m.2 ssd... I know they are expensive... but probably in 1 year they will get cheaper.. and I doubt you'll be buying a new computer next year.. so get one with m.2 slot for later upgrade

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I think the gd65has an  m sata port but even so, should I get the MSI gaming 5 instead? And won't Pcie Express SSDs be the standard of tomorrow(though I think m.2 SSDs are PCI SSDs).

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And which 2 970s do you recommend, Strix at 466$ or Amp Extreme at 580$? I am leaning towards the strix however.

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