PC Build Help.

[GamingGiraffe]

Hey guys, 
A little while ago I built an intel 4670k system, with 4GB of ram ( Yes I know it was bad but, my budget was tiny.), a 1TB Hard Drive and an R9 270x 2GB Vapour x. I was extremely pleased with the graphics performance of my PC and knew when I turned the textures up in games such as Titanfall the problem was my ram not being enough. I decided to sell that PC and buy a Macbook Pro and now I have decided that I want to build another. This new PC has to be able to power two monitors without a hitch and handle the adobe creative suite very well. The system build I have decided on for this is as follows,

Intel Core i7 4770k,
Cooler Master Seidon 120v 86.2 CFM Liquid,
Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP ATX LGA1150,
Kingston Fury Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600,
Corsair 230T Windowed-BLUE ATX Mid Tower,
Corsair 600W ATX12V.

I will be re-using my old hard drive as I held on to that. My other question was, if I was to add a graphics card which I will be doing in january ( at present I have an old Nvidia 315 that will do the job until I get a proper GPU), would I be better off getting an R9 285, GTX 760 or waiting to see what Nvidia announce in terms of the 960?? ( I'm only going to be playing games at 1080p as thats the res of my monitors).

Thank you guys.

[Faceman]

Hold out for the 960.  If the 960 isnt any good(which I doubt) get an R9 280 at least.  Anything with less than 3GB of VRAM you shouldn't consider.

 

Also, you will probably need a stronger CPU cooler than the Seidon.  The Seidon isnt all that good considering it is overpriced when the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO for $30 performs the same.

[Decon]

I'd wait for a 960

[Altecice]

please use PcPartPicker for your link

[thekeemo]

total budget?

[jslane21]

I read somewhere that the 960 will be out in october, not sure the truth to that but why not go with 750ti or 660ti and save for a higher end card in the future. I have the 750ti and it's a beast for its price point but the 760 or 285 I would definitely go with the 285.

[Rangelov]

GPU: r9 285 all the way atleast when comparing it to the 760.

 

I would wait for the 960 it is going to be 200$ and it is right around the corner (January).

 

I advise you to drop the i7 and get an i5 if you are gonna game and get a better cooler. Oh, and also, get an SSD, even for a boot drive it is going to make a difference in the computers speed in a good way.

[Senzelian]

I think the GTX 960 is worth waiting. It'll be probably released in January.

But instead of going with only one 8GB stick of RAM, I would go for 2 sticks with each 4GB. So you have dual channel support. You would be still able to upgrade to 16GB. But only do that, if you're not going to upgrade to 2x 8GB sticks anyway.

[GamingGiraffe]

Sorry guys I forgot the link!!!
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/TTKLqs

Would it be quieter to get the 212 evo or to get the cheapest corsair AIO?

[Blade of Grass]

Is it safe to assume that your budget is around 540 pounds?

 

Also, I've moved this to New Builds and Planning, should get you some more advice

[GamingGiraffe]

Thanks mate, didn't see that particular forum. Yeah its £540 for the PC, not including the GPU which will be purchased later.