Help building my first gaming pc!

sacamoises · December 19, 2015

I have:

- EVGA 500W power supply.

- Samsung evo 850 250Gb ssd and a 1tb hdd

- MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 Graphics Card

(and periferals)

what else should I get that will give me the best bang for my buck? I have 450$ left for cpu, motherboard and ram. I would like 16 gigs of ram (8 & 8) with a possibility to get 16 more later. (so I guess I'll need a motherboard with 4 ram sockets)

Amazingasian · December 19, 2015

I have:

- EVGA 500W power supply.

- Samsung evo 850 250Gb ssd and a 1tb hdd

- MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 Graphics Card

(and periferals)

what else should I get that will give me the best bang for my buck? I have 450$ left for cpu, motherboard and ram. I would like 16 gigs of ram (8 & 8) with a possibility to get 16 more later. (so I guess I'll need a motherboard with 4 ram sockets)

What's your total budget? I can do much better.

TheProtagonis · December 19, 2015

duuuuuude $450 for a mobo, cpu and more. My CPU is $500, although you wont need that. Looking at what you got, you could get a GTX 960 instead, get a 1TB hard drive and just a 120gb ssd. save atleast $150-200 for mobo. Look at a high end i5 or med-high i7 chip

suchamoneypit · December 19, 2015

duuuuuude $450 for a mobo, cpu and more. My CPU is $500, although you wont need that. Looking at what you got, you could get a GTX 960 instead, get a 1TB hard drive and just a 120gb ssd. save atleast $150-200 for mobo. Look at a high end i5 or med-high i7 chip

he already has a 970, he wouldnt spend the money on a 960 and downgrade.

I have:

- EVGA 500W power supply.

- Samsung evo 850 250Gb ssd and a 1tb hdd

- MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 Graphics Card

(and periferals)

what else should I get that will give me the best bang for my buck? I have 450$ left for cpu, motherboard and ram. I would like 16 gigs of ram (8 & 8) with a possibility to get 16 more later. (so I guess I'll need a motherboard with 4 ram sockets)

check out this build i did for a friend http://pcpartpicker.com/p/w2grFT, look into the CPU and RAM. It would come to like $500, in which case you could get the same motherboard and RAM but just get an i5-4690k to save money which will be fine.

TheProtagonis · December 19, 2015

he already has a 970, he wouldnt spend the money on a 960 and downgrade.

check out this build i did for a friend http://pcpartpicker.com/p/w2grFT, look into the CPU and RAM. It would come to like $500, in which case you could get the same motherboard and RAM but just get an i5-4690k to save money which will be fine.

I thought he was saying that he was planning to buy those and those were the things he had already planned to buy. Because I was saying instead of buying the 970, buy a 960 and save the money for something else.

sacamoises · December 19, 2015

I have:

- EVGA 500W power supply.

- Samsung evo 850 250Gb ssd and a 1tb hdd

- MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 Graphics Card

(and periferals)

what else should I get that will give me the best bang for my buck? I have 450$ left for cpu, motherboard and ram. I would like 16 gigs of ram (8 & 8) with a possibility to get 16 more later. (so I guess I'll need a motherboard with 4 ram sockets)