First build thoughts

[Dustin22]

My first build primarily for gaming, wondering what experienced builders think:

 Intel Core i3-4170 

Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX

Kingston HyperX Fury Red 8GB (2 x 4GB)

Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB

Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB

EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB FTW

Corsair SPEC-01 RED

Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze

[DimasRMDO]

What's your budget?

I'd say, change the SSD to like 120GB Samsung 850 EVO, it performs better.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

My first build primarily for gaming, wondering what experienced builders think:

 Intel Core i3-4170 

Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX

Kingston HyperX Fury Red 8GB (2 x 4GB)

Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB

Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB

EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB FTW

Corsair SPEC-01 RED

Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze

What's the total budget? and in such a budget oriented build I would highly recommend not getting a SSD until you have extra money down the road. I'd take the money from your SSD and put it towards a 960 or 380 as well as picking up a higher end PSU, if you do that you'll have an infinitely better time. Other than that- nice build

[DarkBlade2117]

What's the total budget? and in such a budget oriented build I would highly recommend not getting a SSD until you have extra money down the road. I'd take the money from your SSD and put it towards a 960 or 380 as well as picking up a higher end PSU, if you do that you'll have an infinitely better time. Other than that- nice build

Could not of stated this better myself.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Could not of stated this better myself.

Great minds think alike! SSD's don't have much of a place in builds under $800, I mean you'll end up putting like 3 or 4 AAA titles and your OS plus some programs on it then you'll be out of space. In budget builds all money should be focused on shear performances with luxuries like SSD's coming later on.

[DarkBlade2117]

Great minds think alike! SSD's don't have much of a place in builds under $800, I mean you'll end up putting like 3 or 4 AAA titles and your OS plus some programs on it then you'll be out of space. In budget builds all money should be focused on shear performances with luxuries like SSD's coming later on.

SSDs are a luxury not a must In 5, 10, whatever amount of years we will be saying something else is a luxury not a must.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

SSDs are a luxury not a must In 5, 10, whatever amount of years we will be saying something else is a luxury not a must.

Well I believe when a 250GB SSD is only 50$ then it's worth it in a budget build but even now at 90$ it's still out of the way.

[i_build_nanosuits]

like the guys said, consider the SSD as a future upgrade and dump more money into a better GPU and a better PSU instead.

R9 380 and 500W+ PSU bronze rated or better that has good reviews.

[Dustin22]

What's the total budget? and in such a budget oriented build I would highly recommend not getting a SSD until you have extra money down the road. I'd take the money from your SSD and put it towards a 960 or 380 as well as picking up a higher end PSU, if you do that you'll have an infinitely better time. Other than that- nice build

thanks for the suggestion! I will definitely scratch the ssd for an upgrade in the graphics card/psu and then buy an ssd later

[Starelementpoke]

My first build primarily for gaming, wondering what experienced builders think:

 Intel Core i3-4170 

Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX

Kingston HyperX Fury Red 8GB (2 x 4GB)

Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB

Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB

EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB FTW

Corsair SPEC-01 RED

Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze

That ssd just no. They might've said they've fixed it, but better safe than sorry. And what people were saying about the psu and gpu. Cut ssd, get hard drive, better psu and gpu, profit.

[Dustin22]

Update:

No SSD

MSI Radeon R9 380

Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

everything else the same

[i_build_nanosuits]

Update:

No SSD

MSI Radeon R9 380

Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

everything else the same

nice, if budget is tight, this will deliver what you need...it's a better machine than a PS4 for example.

i would try to get the i5-4460 though, as it will allow for a GPU upgrade down the road where as the core i3 will be pretty much maxed out with this GPU, listen to this video, at first they test the card with an i7...then they swap to a core i3-4130 to see what happen and then even the GTX950 which is quite weak in nvidia's line-up pulls ahead, interesting video:

 

 

The i3 is still pretty good, clocked faster than this one and will deliver playable framerates in every games...but the i5 is notieably better and will be relevant longer...unless you would plan an upgrade to say an i7-4790 or xeon E3-1231V3 and an R9 390X or Fury or something in which case i would recommend again a better pSU...but i5-4460 and R9 380 would be nicer, wait for black friday?! get deals...buy used GPU if possible? a GTX 780 should cost about the same used and is MUCH more powerful...these cards last 8 to 10 years easily even on a dusty dirty smoker machine.

 

EDIT: well...listening back to this video attest that something like a core i3-4130 already limit the performance of a R7 360...so maybe a better CPU would be better for you than a better CPU depending of what type of games you play...what games are you looking to render and at what screen resolution ?

Sure the i3-4170 is a little faster but still...i don't know!

Edited October 19, 2015 by i_build_nanosuits

[Dustin22]

How will the 4170 pair with an R9 380?

[Dustin22]

And would the i3-4170 and R9 380 combo be better or the i5-4460 and gtx 950 combo?