Started my first build

[MrJBravo]

I orginally posted this in the New Builds and Planning forums and decided to move it here as this is first build and want to log everything every step of the way.

[Original post]

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WYGmJx

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WYGmJx/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($279.99 @ Micro Center) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($109.99 @ Amazon) 

 

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($116.98 @ Newegg) 

or

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Plus ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($119.89 @ SuperBiiz) 

 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2133 Memory  ($129.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: PNY XLR8 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($64.99 @ Micro Center) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card  ($339.00 @ NCIX US) 

Case: Corsair 760T White ATX Full Tower Case  ($159.99 @ NCIX US) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($74.99 @ NCIX US) 

Total: $1275.92

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-24 13:41 EST-0500

The focus on my build was the Corsair 760T case in Arctic white. It's the best looking case IMO. When I started planning this build I was wanting the build to be blue, but I find my self loving the way the Krait Edition motherboard looks so that is still up in the air.

My location is the US. I plan to run triple displays (two monitors and a 42" TV) I do alot of multi tasking on my pc, often playing games on one monitor surfing on another while playing media of some type on my TV. I'm one of those tab fiends with anywhere from  10-25 tabs open in each browser window, and 2 or 3 windows open at a time. As far as gaming goes I typically play LoL, I have Skyrim, but playing on my current PC is more frustrating than fun so I haven't touched the game since I installed it. I'm also planning on running emulators on my pc, as well as open source games like Mugen, StepMania, Osu and the like. I want this to be the only PC I will need , if possible, for the next 10 years or so. I've only bought prebuilt PC's before with my current rig being a gateway DX series I bought 3 years ago, it has a Core i3 530, a 350watt psu, 3 Hard drives (1 1TB, 2 500GB) and an EVGA GTX 550Ti, however with that graphics card I had to disconnect one of my hard drives and my optical drive to power the 550. I'm trying to keep the build under $1500 USD, and would like to avoid recycling parts from my gateway outside the HDD as I plan to just give it to my little brother.

All feedback is welcomed
 

 

 

I got some good feedfeed back on the subject and have changed my build plans a bit

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (Purchased For $340.00)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($106.98 @ Directron)
Motherboard: Asus Z97-AR ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (Purchased For $150.00)
Memory: PNY XLR8 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($98.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: PNY XLR8 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($58.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Green 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($133.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card  ($329.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 760T White ATX Full Tower Case  ($159.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($78.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit)  ($86.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1543.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-11 23:53 EDT-0400

I have already purchased my CPU and Motherboard...

 

[gadgetguy99]

i would get win7 pro because its not that much more than home and it supports more ram and remote desktop

[MrJBravo]

***UPDATE****
I have purchased 16GB HyperX Fury Black RAM a Sandisk 120GB SSD and the EVGA 750 G1 80plus Gold psu. Just waiting on my case and I can start putting this build together. Planning to run the stock cooler for about a month or so, hopefully by then I can get my cpu cooler, planning on the Corsair H100i GT, and will be running either a GTX 550Ti or an Radeon HD7770 (brother's spare parts) until I can purchase either a GTX 970 or, depending on my funds, a GTX 980Ti.

Will be posting pictures soon

[Nena Trinity]

Not bad!  (why no R9 390? Or maybe 380X but that will be released late in October...)

[MrJBravo]

Final Update (probably)

 

Put my PC together initially with the stock cooler and a GTX 960 (was for my little brother, but  I wouldn't have the rest of his components until a few months later)

 

This fan really bothered me so I had to fix it

 

Fast Forward a couple of months to my new GTX 970!

 

FF a couple of weeks

 

Final Specs (For Now)

CPU: Core i7 4790k OC's to 4.5

GPU: EVGA Nvidia GTX 970 ACX 2.0

MOBO: ASUS Z97-AR

RAM: 16GB Kingston HyperX Fury Black 1600

Cooling: Corsair H100iGTX; 2 120mm Corsair SP120 3 140mm Corsair AF 140

PSU: EVGA 750 G1 80+Gold 750W

Storage: Sandisk 120 SSD, 2 1TB WD Green HDD;  1 180GB laptop HD: Toshiba 500GB repurposed HD

Case: Corsair 760t Arctic White

[MrJBravo]

On 9/19/2015 at 10:05 AM, Nena360 said:

Not bad!  (why no R9 390? Or maybe 380X but that will be released late in October...)

In all honesty, it was because I was building a PC that would be an exact opposite of my brother's build, he is running with an AMD CPU and GPU so I went opposite with Intel and Nvidia sorry it took this long to reply bee really busy the last 6 months