How good is this build?

[fuhhue]

How good is this build for running and streaming games such as witcher 3, fallout 4, farcry 4, ect. if anything needs changing for better price/performance let me know. also ignore the color of the motherboard i know it doesnt match, im working on getting a custom blue one. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/c6qpZL

[Vercii]

This is actually a pretty solid build. Nice one  

 

EDIT: Actually the 390 is better than the 970. 

[DisconnectedYT]

VERY GOOD XD.

Pretty much the same as mine. at 1080p you should be getting at least 40FPS on witcher 3 Max Settings!

[HKZeroFive]

Why two separate SSDs? RAID isn't advised. Just get one fat 500GB SSD.

[Ace0100]

Solid but i would change the OS to 7 or 8.1

[Kiol]

It would be cheaper to just get a single 500GB 850 EVO rather than two 250GB ones.

[EIijah]

1 minute ago, Ace0100 said:

Solid but i would change the OS to 7 or 8.1

Never tell someone to get a different OS if they're going for the latest one, Windows 10 may not be the nicest for you personally to use, but it runs far better then 7 does.

[EIijah]

9 minutes ago, fuhhue said:

How good is this build for running and streaming games such as witcher 3, fallout 4, farcry 4, ect. if anything needs changing for better price/performance let me know. also ignore the color of the motherboard i know it doesnt match, im working on getting a custom blue one. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/c6qpZL

Great build, have a look at 390's though they perform better, and DX12 performance is much better. I'd also get 1 500gig SSD as setting up raid 0 is rather annoying (I tried with two 128gig SSD's) I would also recommend getting windows from reddit (Microsoftsoftwareswap) for far cheaper

[Ace0100]

1 minute ago, EIijah said:

Never tell someone to get a different OS if they're going for the latest one, Windows 10 may not be the nicest for you personally to use, but it runs far better then 7 does.

Games don't like 10 there have been so much people complain there games don't work example the division most people there are running 10 and they are having alot of issues

[Sportiva]

Looks good,

However instead of two 850 EVOs get one 500gb unless your really want to raid 0 (I wouldn't)

Also If you want better price to performance i would get a R9 390 Nitro instead of the 970

[EIijah]

1 minute ago, Ace0100 said:

Games don't like 10 there have been so much people complain there games don't work example the division most people there are running 10 and they are having alot of issues

Issues like that get fixed pretty fast, Although personally I stick with 8.1 but never 7 purely because it's so much smoother, games and general operation.

[fuhhue]

14 minutes ago, Vercii said:

This is actually a pretty solid build. Nice one  

 

EDIT: Actually the 390 is better than the 970. 

 

6 minutes ago, Sportiva said:

Looks good,

However instead of two 850 EVOs get one 500gb unless your really want to raid 0 (I wouldn't)

Also If you want better price to performance i would get a R9 390 Nitro instead of the 970

so i should go with the 390 instead of 970? how much better performance is it?

[Ryan Kazzy]

13 minutes ago, fuhhue said:

How good is this build for running and streaming games such as witcher 3, fallout 4, farcry 4, ect. if anything needs changing for better price/performance let me know. also ignore the color of the motherboard i know it doesnt match, im working on getting a custom blue one. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/c6qpZL

I have an i5 4670 non k, EVGA 970 ftw, 8Gb DDR3 Ram and for witcher 3 I can run it 60 fps with amlost all things ultra and no hairworks, your build is really solid! but maybe replace the seagate HDD for a WD blue HDD, other than that its really good!

[l_zheng101]

Solid build but I prefer the R9  390 over the GTX 970. Do you plan on putting the SSD's in a raid 0 array?

[fuhhue]

Just now, l_zheng101 said:

Solid build but I prefer the R9  390 over the GTX 970. Do you plan on putting the SSD's in a raid 0 array?

already swapped the 2 250s for a 500

[EIijah]

5 minutes ago, fuhhue said:

 

so i should go with the 390 instead of 970? how much better performance is it?

It's not, maybe a couple fps, but usually it's cheaper and the vram doesn't hurt.

[fuhhue]

Just now, EIijah said:

It's not, maybe a couple fps, but usually it's cheaper and the vram doesn't hurt.

actually it seems the r9 390 and the 970 are the same price both 309. the 970 has a higher core clock but only 4 gb  and the 390 has a lower core clock but 8gb. so the 970 would be better because of the higher clock rate right?

[EIijah]

Just now, fuhhue said:

actually it seems the r9 390 and the 970 are the same price both 309. the 970 has a higher core clock but only 4 gb  and the 390 has a lower core clock but 8gb. so the 970 would be better because of the higher clock rate right?

Actually purely from core clock you can't really tell, the 8GB vram I'd call useless, 4Gig's all you need but the 390 will perform the same in most scenarios but should kick the 970's ass in DX12 

[fuhhue]

6 minutes ago, EIijah said:

Actually purely from core clock you can't really tell, the 8GB vram I'd call useless, 4Gig's all you need but the 390 will perform the same in most scenarios but should kick the 970's ass in DX12 

higher vram is typically only important if im going to have high demanding games or multiple monitors right?

[Ace0100]

22 minutes ago, EIijah said:

Issues like that get fixed pretty fast, Although personally I stick with 8.1 but never 7 purely because it's so much smoother, games and general operation.

i agree with 8.1 i am running that as well never had an issue

[fuhhue]

i just looked at benchmarks and they are basically on par, in the long run the 390 has a slight edge

[Moonzy]

51 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

Why two separate SSDs? RAID isn't advised. Just get one fat 500GB SSD.

for the two 2.5inch mount on the s340 i believe... aesthetics lol

[Moonzy]

52 minutes ago, Ace0100 said:

Solid but i would change the OS to 7 or 8.1

well im not sure how much of it is true but

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/skylake-users-given-18-months-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/

[EIijah]

On 3/16/2016 at 2:14 PM, fuhhue said:

higher vram is typically only important if im going to have high demanding games or multiple monitors right?

Vram just stores things that the video card needs to access quickly, as far as I know, the more power, the more vram you'll want (sort of) considering the 390 and 970 perform the same I would rate the vram as useless for most situations, looks hella fancy though