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PC upgrade, any thoughts?

Cereal_Killer
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What do you think about this build:

 

(I already own items that are bold)

Processor: Intel Core i5 4460

Motherboard: MSI H97I AC

Graphics Card: EVGA GTX 980 Ti

RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 2x4GB

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNova G2 650W

Case: Fractal Design Define Nano S

HDD: Western Digital 1TB

SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U14S

 

Answers to a few questions:

1. Where are you buying the parts?

- Sweden, webhallen,com to be precise.

2. What's your budget?

- I can spend up to 15000 kr (around 1800$), but somewhere around 12000 kr (around 1400$) would be the sweet spot.

3. What will the PC be used for?

- 1080p gaming, GTA V, Witcher 3, and such. I know that GTX 980 Ti is an overkill for 1080p, but it's not that much more expensive compared to GTX 980 (7200 kr vs 6200 kr) and will give me more extra power in the future. Also, I might switch to 4K in a year or two.

4. Why are you making so many of these of these threads?

- I'm planning what to buy, which means every 2 days or so I ditch the old idea and make a new one.

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see if you can get a seasonic or Corsiar RMI/RMx psu, both are better than the EVGA super nova. I would recommend an asus motherboard but that is because I have had no issues so far after 4 months and a good OC not on a ROG board. 

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow.
GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

PSU Tier List      Motherboard Tier List     SSD Tier List     How to get PC parts cheap    HP probook 445R G6 review

 

"Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid."

Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 60D, 24-105 F4, 50mm F1.4, Helios44-m, 2 Cos-11D lavs

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10 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

see if you can get a seasonic or Corsiar RMI/RMx psu, both are better than the EVGA super nova. I would recommend an asus motherboard but that is because I have had no issues so far after 4 months and a good OC not on a ROG board. 

Hmm, from what ASUS has to offer, the H97I-PLUS seems to be the best choice, but unfortunately it's not available in my store. I also looked at Gigabyte, and they have that board caled GA-H97N-WIFI. Is it better than MSI H97I-AC?

 

Funny, some time ago I made a build with Corsair PSU in it, and people suggested getting EVGA instead. Now I have a build with EVGA in it, and you're suggesting Corsair :D Either way, I found this Corsair RM950X, which is the same price as EVGA SuperNova G2 650W. Which one is better?

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2 hours ago, Cereal_Killer said:

Hmm, from what ASUS has to offer, the H97I-PLUS seems to be the best choice, but unfortunately it's not available in my store. I also looked at Gigabyte, and they have that board caled GA-H97N-WIFI. Is it better than MSI H97I-AC?

 

Funny, some time ago I made a build with Corsair PSU in it, and people suggested getting EVGA instead. Now I have a build with EVGA in it, and you're suggesting Corsair :D Either way, I found this Corsair RM950X, which is the same price as EVGA SuperNova G2 650W. Which one is better?

the corsair RM950X. according to the white list the RMx should be a bit better. 

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow.
GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

PSU Tier List      Motherboard Tier List     SSD Tier List     How to get PC parts cheap    HP probook 445R G6 review

 

"Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid."

Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 60D, 24-105 F4, 50mm F1.4, Helios44-m, 2 Cos-11D lavs

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All those parts are good, also you don't need to change the PSU the Evga G2 is a good PSU.

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14 hours ago, RZeroX said:

All those parts are good, also you don't need to change the PSU the Evga G2 is a good PSU.

 

14 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

the corsair RM650X. according to the white list the RMx should be a bit better. 

Well dang.


GDRRiley, what white list are you talking about?

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