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Anything I can change to make my build cheaper?

As others have already said:

 

- Get a decent air cooler instead of the costly and overkill H100i

 

- Get a lower tier CPU. They don't make much of a difference these days

 

- Most importantly, GET A BETTER GPU. That is what will drive most of your experience.

 

And also, try to squeeze an SSD into the build. Night and day difference between the two.

 

I know I haven't exactly answered your question, but these will help you make a well balanced rig. Hope this helps.

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- Get a lower tier CPU. They don't make much of a difference these days

 

Blatant lie based on bad benchmarking culture, please stop perpetuating this. Multiplayer games, MMO's, RTS or same type of games still rely on IPC. A 4690K @ 4.5ghz is still 40% faster than the 4460. Which will def. be noticable in framerate consistency and min. fps.

 

Besides, it's an allrounder system, not 100% for gaming. Having a more balanced system works better.

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Switch out that power supply. The G1 power supply series from EVGA is worse than the newer G2's.  Depending on where you live, the G2 should be cheaper as well. And possibly you won't even need 750W with what you are running. You can easily get two cards in SLI with 650W and still have enough headroom.

 

In fact, in your case any decent 400W  PSU would even be enough. For upgrades later or SLI'ing I would go 500.

 

Check out the SeaSonic S12-II or M12II Evo, notably the 520W versions.

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Blatant lie based on bad benchmarking culture, please stop perpetuating this. Multiplayer games, MMO's, RTS or same type of games still rely on IPC. A 4690K @ 4.5ghz is still 40% faster than the 4460. Which will def. be noticable in framerate consistency and min. fps.

 

Besides, it's an allrounder system, not 100% for gaming. Having a more balanced system works better.

 

Won't let me post the benchmark picture that I wanted to, so here is a link: http://iyd.kr/665 (this is not a shortened link)

 

Yes I know that when you're playing extremely intensive MMOs like Planetside 2, every ounce of your CPU horsepower counts (trust me, I play the game on a regular basis), but if OP was looking to play those kinds of games in the first place, I don't think he would be pairing the 4690K to a GTX 960 ( <-- that card doesn't perform any better than a 2 year old GTX 680).

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This is my build that I will hopefully make for myself. You could change the core to a I5 and change the case but overall it is a good build.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6dyCnQ

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This is my build that I will hopefully make for myself. You could change the core to a I5 and change the case but overall it is a good build.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6dyCnQ

If I may comment on your build:

- H100i is overkill if you don't overclock. Get a decent Air cooler like the Hyper 212. (I'll keep reiterating this until people stop wasting money on these)

-There are some threads regarding to the CX series of PSUs failing on high-performance PCs (I will link them once I find them). So if you're making an expensive build, it only makes sense to buy a high quality PSU since THAT IS THE HEART OF YOUR BUILD.

 

If I may not comment, then you can safely ignore this.

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1. Please put your builds on pcpartpicker, its not hard for me to understand but it might for other ppl

2. Try to find a old/broken laptop/desktop that the hdd still works, I got 2TB free (500GBx3 and 320GBx2)

3. You really dont need that case something at 100$ is enough for only a cpu watercool rad and airflow just search well

4. You psu is totally overkill 600W is enough, even for overclock CPU and GPU

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1. Grab a cheaper case

2. Go with Air Cooling like a CM 212 Evo or CM 212X

3. Will save you some more, by getting a WD Blue 1TB. Performance of the black drive is not out of this world.

4. Grab a G2 model from EVGA, lower the psu wattage which should reduce the price or pick some other brand like Corsair.

5. AMD GPUs cost less, so maybe you'll get a more powerful card with a similar price than the GTX 960

6. Go with Z97 board, some will have support for M.2, SATA Express, and NVMe. Certain Z97 board will also support SLI and CFX.

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I chose that case for a reason.

 

 

Spend the extra money and get a GTX970

1600 is only what I'm getting

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The design was built to enable SLI later and I know he should change the Cooler.

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow.
GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

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"Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid."

Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 60D, 24-105 F4, 50mm F1.4, Helios44-m, 2 Cos-11D lavs

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I chose that case for a reason.

 

 

1600 is only what I'm getting

 

 

 

Yeah something is off with that document, because if I aim for 1520, I can easily fit in a 970

 

NCIX only

 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($79.99 @ NCIX) 
Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($189.99 @ NCIX) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card  ($449.99 @ NCIX) 
Total: $1562.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-05 05:04 EDT-0400
 
NCIX is missing the SSD i chose originally.

 

There are already builds posted by the fellow community members that include your desired case and a GTX 970.

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The design was built to enable SLI later and I know he should change the Cooler.

Any decent case with 7 expansion slots or more can support SLI. I don't know what do you mean. Did you refer to something other than the case when you said "design"?

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Any decent case with 7 expansion slots or more can support SLI. I don't know what do you mean. Did you refer to something other than the case when you said "design"?

The power supply option and the mother board where also a part of the design.

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow.
GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

PSU Tier List      Motherboard Tier List     SSD Tier List     How to get PC parts cheap    HP probook 445R G6 review

 

"Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid."

Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 60D, 24-105 F4, 50mm F1.4, Helios44-m, 2 Cos-11D lavs

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