My First Build, Please Help.

XxImmortalxX · August 31, 2014

1. Budget & Location
I am aiming to spend around USD 2000+ max and I live in Asia. I will be buying peripherals and monitors at my local retailer so I only need suggestions for my tower.

2. Aim
I will be using it mainly for gaming at 1080p, 60fps. I will by playing games like Watchdogs, Borderlands, Diablo 3 and many more, mostly graphics intense games. I hope to be able to do some video editing from time to time on my computer for school projects and run video editing software such as Vegas Pro and Premiere Pro.

3. Monitors
I will mostly be working on my FHD 55" Samsung TV as its big and nice .

4. Peripherals
Nope. I have them already. Just need advice on my tower.

5. Why are you upgrading?
My old pentium dual core desktop is dying and keeps crashing. Tried to do system diagnostics but failed horribly and I plan to upgrade.

I hope to go along with Linus' build (Surround Gaming Build) but with lesser components as I am new and his videos are very informative and I hope to follow along for most of the part and I would prefer using the i7-4790K for future proofing.

This is my build list:

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/XxImmortalxX/saved/QnfnTW

CPU Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core $329.98 Motherboard Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 ATX LGA1150 $238.99 Memory Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2400 $162.99 Storage Intel 730 Series 240GB 2.5" SSD $142.50 Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM $78.23 Video Card EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Superclocked $699.98 Case NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower $99.99 Power Supply Corsair 650W ATX12V / EPS12V $142.90

Total: $1895.56

Clyne · August 31, 2014

looks great! only thing i would change is the hdd to wd blue or seagata barracuda, and change the psu to a evga g2 750w psu, stock fan is enough if your not overclocking, you can get a hyper 212 evo if you want your best price to performance ratio cooler if your oc or want a quieter cooler.

Koffehh · August 31, 2014

Looks good just need a cooler if u going to over clock.

Geekazoid · August 31, 2014

@XxImmortalxX, you must need double the help because you created this exact same thread twice?

Just a simple request: Would you care ever so much to following this thread of yours by clicking that magical button that goes by the wonderful and great name that is 'Follow This Topic". It would be ever so nice of you as it would mean that we would not have to press another magical button that goes by the wonderful name of "Quote". Thank you!

If that's TL;DR then what I'm basically asking is, can you please follow your thread so that we don't have to quote you?

Thanks!