My First gaming PC, need opinions

[supremepair]

Hello people, this is my first time building a powerful gaming pc. It took me half month to understand the basic of building one and the whole thing cost me about $1550 cad. Any suggestion on where I can do better with the parts? appreciate it. :wub:
 
 

*got the 250GB SSD of the exact same model instead of the 120GB*

http://imgur.com/pIr2wcz

 

Mailman came in today, fresh outta box

http://imgur.com/DBAGFLy

 

In case link doesnt work:

 

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor  (FD6300WMHKBOX)

 

CPU Cooler: Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler

 

Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING ATX AM3+ Motherboard 

 

Memory:A-Data XPG V2 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory

 

Storage:Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (MZ-7TE120BW)

 

Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive 

 

grapic card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX

 

Case: Fractal design Define R5

 

Power supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

[Deletive]

Nice, What are your specs? 

[supremepair]

Nice, What are your specs? 

Fixed, the original link was acting funny 

[NannerBeans]

Fixed, the original link was acting funny 

Your link still doesn't work.

[soaringchicken]

Nice build, but why AMD?

[supremepair]

Your link still doesn't work.

done

[supremepair]

Nice build, but why AMD?

because Intel products are really expensive, a friend suggested  this AMD product; performs well and great value 

[Satlen]

because Intel products are really expensive, a friend suggested  this AMD product; performs well and great value 

You would have been better off with intel for a gaming build. Just remember, more cores does not mean more performance.

[A Banana :D]

650w is a bit overkill especially with your GTX 970

[Trik'Stari]

because Intel products are really expensive, a friend suggested  this AMD product; performs well and great value 

Switch to z97 motherboard and Pentium refresh CPU. 16gb of ram, and an AIO water cooler. Much better off. Offers the capability to upgrade the cpu to something much better. Plenty of performance when OC'd to like 4.0gigahertz

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117374

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128727

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181010

 

Better to spend slightly more, and get a platform you can upgrade.

 

Edit: If you already bought all that....not too bad. I just prefer intel because it's more modern than AM3+, with stuff like m.2, haswell refresh, broadwell (as if broadwell mattered)

 

Nice GPU though, got the same one in my rig.

 

Welcome to the PCmasterrace

[supremepair]

650w is a bit overkill especially with your GTX 970

I know, but I was thinking w/e better safe than sorry.

[supremepair]

Switch to z97 motherboard and Pentium refresh CPU. 16gb of ram, and an AIO water cooler. Much better off. Offers the capability to upgrade the cpu to something much better. Plenty of performance when OC'd to like 4.0gigahertz

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117374

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128727

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181010

 

Better to spend slightly more, and get a platform you can upgrade.

 

Edit: If you already bought all that....not too bad. I just prefer intel because it's more modern than AM3+, with stuff like m.2, haswell refresh, broadwell (as if broadwell mattered)

 

Nice GPU though, got the same one in my rig.

 

Welcome to the PCmasterrace

Thank you and everyone else for the feedbacks! I'll keep them in mind

[NannerBeans]

If you got a cheaper psu, dropped to 8GB of RAM, and gotten a cheaper case, you could have gotten an i5 instead. That fx6300 will bottleneck you half the time in games. 

[GarnetDevil]

That AMD cpu will bottleneck the shit out of your 970, you should have gone with intel i5

[supremepair]

That AMD cpu will bottleneck the shit out of your 970, you should have gone with intel i5

why??

[GarnetDevil]

why??

Why? Old architecture -> weak cpu core -> cause bottleneck

[Remilia]

Personally I'd go for 8GB RAM and spend the money save on a better Intel CPU.

There's little reason to go for 16 GB if you're not going to use any software that can utilize it, because there's very very few games, if any at all, that benefits from anything above 8GB.

 

Unless you want it for a lot of multitasking, of course, but it won't help in the gaming department.

[supremepair]

Personally I'd go for 8GB RAM and spend the money save on a better Intel CPU.

There's little reason to go for 16 GB if you're not going to use any software that can utilize it, because there's very very few games, if any at all, that benefits from anything above 8GB.

 

Unless you want it for a lot of multitasking, of course, but it won't help in the gaming department.

this is exactly what I am thinking right now. It seems that fx6300 will bottleneck the 970, however if I dont spend 100$+ more for i5 there isnt really much of a point.

Do you think the fx6300 can handle HD game streaming?