Building help

braccianom · January 4, 2016

I'm helping upgrade my friends system and he wants to spend around $1000 but no more than $1200. He has a case and everything but wants a new cpu, mb, ram, and gpu. I was thinking about getting hi. The 4790k, asus Z97-A, Sapphire 390, and then 16gb corsair vengeance ddr3, and the corsair h100i. The issue is he has only about 650w psu, so I was also going to and the corsair 860ax psu so if he wants to upgrade in the future he won't have to buy another psu. How do you think i should spend that?

Streetguru · January 4, 2016

I'm helping upgrade my friends system and he wants to spend around $1000 but no more than $1200. He has a case and everything but wants a new cpu, mb, ram, and gpu. I was thinking

650W is going to be fine for just about any single GPU PC

Otherwise a Xeon 1231v3 is probably a better buy than that i7?

Otherwise start here, you still have room to fit in a free-sync display as well, they run about $300 right now for a 21:9 IPS 1080p one

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/cpzT23

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/cpzT23/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($232.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($62.98 @ Newegg)

Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($32.99 @ Adorama)

Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($122.99 @ NCIX US)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.98 @ OutletPC)

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 390 8GB PCS+ Video Card ($298.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ Newegg)