Rate this $1000 build

[Gandek]

Me and friend doing a $1000 build contest and you guys are the judges STRAWPOLL: 

http://strawpoll.me/6110616

 

#1 - This the one i came up with

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($209.99 @ Newegg) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($19.99 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: Asus Z97-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($74.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($147.99 @ Amazon) 

Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($64.99 @ Newegg) 

Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card  ($274.99 @ Newegg) 

Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($56.10 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Amazon) 

Total: $1019.02

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-26 20:30 EST-0500

 

 

#2 - Friends

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($209.99 @ Newegg) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($19.99 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: Biostar Hi-Fi B85N 3D Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($29.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB mSATA Solid State Drive  ($147.99 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card  ($489.99 @ Amazon) 

Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.10 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($19.99 @ NCIX US) 

Total: $1007.03

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-26 20:32 EST-0500

 

 

 

 

 

[Knaj]

#1. Better PSU, has a hard drive, 16 gb ram, and also to your friend, why the heck would he put a Mini ITX board in an ATX case???

[Gandek]

#1. Better PSU, has a hard drive, 16 gb ram, and also to your friend, why the heck would he put a Mini ITX board in an ATX case???

Ikr but he's trying to tell me its good, what a scrub.

[theereal]

1: It has a better PSU, has a mechanical drive, more memory, and an actual ATX board

[LeapFrogMasterRace]

mini itx is the least queer thing. It is a b85???

[Sam Z Man]

mini itx is the least queer thing. It is a b85???

What's wrong with the B85 chipset?

[Guest]

What's wrong with the B85 chipset?

everything... Its entry level... 

its meant for locked CPU's... i3/i5's 

not 4690k 

[Gandek]

#2 is now winning 

 

 

cant tell if trollin

[Sam Z Man]

everything... Its entry level... 

its meant for locked CPU's... i3/i5's 

not 4690k

Yes you can't overclock, other then that the disadvantages of B85 are very small and its really put up to the manufactures to determine how feature packed a board is, and it's power delivery.

[Guest]

Yes you can't overclock, other then that the disadvantages of B85 are very small and its really put up to the manufactures to determine how feature packed a board is, and it's power delivery.

if you don't have good power delivery and you try to put a higher end CPU on there

*4690k*  you're gonna have a bad time and B85 again is generally terrible considering black friday is going on right now and you can get a MSI KRAIT board for around the same price...

Its like the exact same reason you dont put a CX series on a gaming PC. Its a ticking time bomb

[Sam Z Man]

if you don't have good power delivery and you try to put a higher end CPU on there

*4690k* you're gonna have a bad time and B85 again is generally terrible considering black friday is going on right now and you can get a MSI KRAIT board for around the same price...

Its like the exact same reason you dont put a CX series on a gaming PC. Its a ticking time bomb

Your missing my point, basically it's this.

Don't judge a board by its chipset, is like judging a gaming PC solely on what family of CPU it is and thinking a i7 has to get more fps then a completely different PC with a i3.

A year ago everyone on this form said that even with a bios update, a Z97 board was better then a Z87 board witch is completely untrue, people seem to missinterpret what a chipset is and what it's for.

[Gandek]

I think friend is votebotting

[Guest]

Your missing my point, basically it's this.

Don't judge a board by its chipset, is like judging a gaming PC solely on what family of CPU it is and thinking a i7 has to get more fps then a completely different PC with a i3.

A year ago everyone on this form said that even with a bios update, a Z97 board was better then a Z87 board witch is completely untrue, people seem to missinterpret what a chipset is and what it's for.

..

your example is invalid

your talking about a CPU refresh 

[Sam Z Man]

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your example is invalid

your talking about a CPU refresh

Yes the Z87/97 chipset example is not perfect. But that's not my point.

What makes the a B85 chipset "entery level" as you call it.

[Guest]

Yes the Z87/97 chipset example is not perfect. But that's not my point.

What makes the a B85 chipset "entery level" as you call it.

the components they use...

the power delivery... the bios...

no PCI-E 3.0....  

[Sam Z Man]

the components they use...

the power delivery... the bios...

no PCI-E 3.0....

Component choice is all up to board manufactures.

Power delivery is all up to board manufactures.

It does support PCI-E 3.0, even if it didn't that wouldn't matter because even a overclocked Titan X will perform the same on PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot versus a 3.0 x16 slot.

[Guest]

Component choice is all up to board manufactures.

Power delivery is all up to board manufactures.

It does support PCI-E 3.0, even if it didn't that wouldn't matter because even a overclocked Titan X will perform the same on PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot versus a 3.0 x16 slot.

your forgetting the key factors

price dippy

and as soon as those increase, it goes up to Z97

go look on Intels site

it most certainly does not

[Sam Z Man]

your forgetting the key factors

price dippy

and as soon as those increase, it goes up to Z97

go look on Intels site

it most certainly does not

What on earth is a price dippy?

You seem to be forgetting that PCI lanes are no longer controlled through the chipset and are directed directly through the CPU, when Intel says that the B85 and Z97 chipses support 8 PCI-E 2.0 lanes, it is referring to the lanes controlled by the chipset that you find routed to m.2 slots and x1 and x4 lanes you find on a motherboard that most people use for WiFi adapters and sound cards. The other 16 PCI-E lanes that feed directly to the CPU are not shown on Intel's chipset specs because they are not part of the chipset.