PC building troubles

[Rhagium]

Dear smart people with knowledge,

 

I am building my own PC for the first time. I always wanted to game on PC but my father was more a Macintosh guy than a Windows guy. He simply doesn't trust windows with all its viruses. So I was stuck with an iMac, playing games on it when I was younger was OK (small online games), but later on the experience was horrible. (IMac is from 2007, 256 MB graphics card, 2GB of SDRAM, etc.; you can't possible know the struggles I have). Games often weren't available on iMacs and the computer became slower and slower. Well, this is the reason I want to build a PC on my own.

 

I have already chosen some parts, I do not fully understand if they are compatible with each other.

 

1 SSD: Samsung SSD 850 EVO (Basic) Series

   250GB

2 Storage: WD Red WD40EFRX

   4TB

3 Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VII Ranger Gaming

4 Graphics card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti

   6GB GDDR5

5 CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K

6 CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H110i GT

7 Case: Cooler Master HAF X

8 RAM: Kingston HyperX Savage Red 32GB DDR3 Kit

   CL11 2400 MHz (4x8GB)

9 DVD Writer: LG GP57EB40 DVD+RW Slim Retail

10 Arctic Silver 5

11 Arctic Silver ArctiClean

12 Power: Corsair AX860i Digital ATX 860 Watt

 

This build costs 2320 euro.

 

My main problem is actually the graphics card. This beast, is it compatible with my motherboard? I have RAM DDR3, CPU DDR3 and motherboard supports DDR3. This graphics card is DDR5. Can this build take it? What should I change? What components are better? I want to finish this build before the release of Doom 4, Spring 2016. Do you know any releases of components that will be better? I want to stay at a price under 2500 euro because I also need to buy a (probably 4K) monitor. Any suggestions on 4K monitors? Please let me know 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Rhagium

 

[JetPowerss]

All that is compatible. CPU matches socket, RAM matches DIMM slots. GPU will work on PCI-E 16x. Have fun building!

[JetPowerss]

Also the GPUs VRAM which is GDDR5 is fine. It's only the system memory which you need to make sure is compatible with the motherboard which it is.

[das affe]

you chose very expensive components. do you really want to spend that much money? there are some things that really don't give you any performance and you could save like 500$ at least

[4b33r]

You have a real beast there.But if it's your first ever build,and you come from a bloody mac then as mentioned above you could probably save some money on parts like.HDD (not ssd),motherboard,ram and cooler.I really insist that you buy no more than 16 gigs of ram if your primary objective is gaming.You couldn't possibly use 32 gigs even if you tried 4k.

[das affe]

You have a real beast there.But if it's your first ever build,and you come from a bloody mac then as mentioned above you could probably save some money on parts like.HDD (not ssd),motherboard,ram and cooler.I really insist that you buy no more than 16 gigs of ram if your primary objective is gaming.You couldn't possibly use 32 gigs even if you tried 4k.

32? i really think that 16 is pushing it even for 4k.. 8 would be ok even my gf is using my old gtx 770 4gb and my old 4670k with 4gb of ram and that has not been an issue yet (doesn't mean i won't make her buy another 4gb stick )

[4b33r]

Dear smart people with knowledge,

 

I am building my own PC for the first time. I always wanted to game on PC but my father was more a Macintosh guy than a Windows guy. He simply doesn't trust windows with all its viruses. So I was stuck with an iMac, playing games on it when I was younger was OK (small online games), but later on the experience was horrible. (IMac is from 2007, 256 MB graphics card, 2GB of SDRAM, etc.; you can't possible know the struggles I have). Games often weren't available on iMacs and the computer became slower and slower. Well, this is the reason I want to build a PC on my own.

 

I have already chosen some parts, I do not fully understand if they are compatible with each other.

 

1 SSD: Samsung SSD 850 EVO (Basic) Series

   250GB

2 Storage: WD Red WD40EFRX

   4TB

3 Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VII Ranger Gaming

4 Graphics card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti

   6GB GDDR5

5 CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K

6 CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H110i GT

7 Case: Cooler Master HAF X

8 RAM: Kingston HyperX Savage Red 32GB DDR3 Kit

   CL11 2400 MHz (4x8GB)

9 DVD Writer: LG GP57EB40 DVD+RW Slim Retail

10 Arctic Silver 5

11 Arctic Silver ArctiClean

12 Power: Corsair AX860i Digital ATX 860 Watt

 

This build costs 2320 euro.

 

My main problem is actually the graphics card. This beast, is it compatible with my motherboard? I have RAM DDR3, CPU DDR3 and motherboard supports DDR3. This graphics card is DDR5. Can this build take it? What should I change? What components are better? I want to finish this build before the release of Doom 4, Spring 2016. Do you know any releases of components that will be better? I want to stay at a price under 2500 euro because I also need to buy a (probably 4K) monitor. Any suggestions on 4K monitors? Please let me know 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Rhagium

Yeah btw if you are not building this until 2016,you cannot,ABSOLUTELY CANNOT choose parts right now.With skylake CPUs and Fiji GPUs just around the corner it would be best to wait and see what they have to offer.They might be much,much better than current gen tech.Just keep in touch with the ltt community of you want to find out more about these parts.

[rmac52]

Ya you don't need 32 GB of ram. Unless your doing professional photo and video work or doing VMs

[Captain_WD]

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Hey Rhagium,

 

This seems like a very enthusiastic and powerful build. Everything is compatible and should work perfectly fine together.

If this build is for gaming only, some of the parts are a major overkill:

- you can downgrade the CPU as you won't really see any benefit from this one in gaming (unless you are doing something else with the build)

- 32GB of memory is way too much and unnecessary for gaming as you would be just as good with 2x4GB

- consider if you really need an optical drive (most of the times people get them and never use them and it simply takes up a SATA port)

- you can get a much lower wattage PSU as I doubt you'll need more than 600W even if you plan on adding a second GPU and OCing the CPU

- WD Red are great drives but they are designed for NAS/RAID setups and its extra features won't be utilized in a regular desktop unless you are adding more in the future for a RAID array. I could suggest checking out WD Green and WD Black instead (depending if you need simple secondary storage and backup drive or more performance-oriented drive respectively) 

 

WD Green: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=YaIQxG

WD Black: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=vwQJUS

 

Captain_WD.