Gaming PC Build

[teddy710]

Here's my PC build that I have planned out. If anyone has any suggestions with good reasoning within a decent price difference please inform me! 

 

Case: Master Cooler MasterCase Pro 5 Mid-Tower

 

Motherboard: MSI Gaming Z170A XPower Gaming Titanium Edition LGA 1151 Intel

 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970

 

PSU: Cooler Series V 650W

 

CPU: Intel Core i7 6700k Skylake

 

SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 2.5" 256 GB

 

RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB(2x8GB)

 

HDD: Seagate Desktop HDD 2TB 64MB Cache

 

Keyboard and Mouse: CM Storm Devastator LED keyboard and mouse

 

Water Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H50 120 mm

 

Monitor: No options... Please suggest some good monitors with good specs and all!

 

Notes: Aside from monitor I figured I could just go with an entry level keyboard and mouse to start. Also I went with the video card but wasn't sure if the 980 ti is drastically better but I compared them on newegg and I found the 970 was better with certain stuff while not much farther behind on a few from the 980. 

 

Thanks for reading this! Any suggestions are taken to heart and wanted! 

[Vercii]

If you want to stay around the same price of a 970, you should go for an R9 390. If you're just hardcore #teamnvidia then I suppose you can stay 970. 

[Moonzy]

if possible, use pcpartpicker.com

 

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1) purely gaming, i recommend getting an i5 6600k, you wont see much benefit from an i7

2) i'd swap that GTX970 for an r9 390 for better DX11, and especially DX12 performance

3) get an 850 evo ssd, i dont see any reason to go 850 pro for a gaming rig

4) overkill ram, get vengeance lpx or hyper x

5) i recommend WD blue drives over seagate `-`

6) get an air cooler or a dual rad, single rad is not worth the money

 

[HPWebcamAble]

6 minutes ago, teddy710 said:

Notes: Aside from monitor I figured I could just go with an entry level keyboard and mouse to start. Also I went with the video card but wasn't sure if the 980 ti is drastically better but I compared them on newegg and I found the 970 was better with certain stuff while not much farther behind on a few from the 980. 

They aren't even close. The 980ti outperforms the 970 in every situation. Of course, the 980ti is about twice as expensive. It's a trade-off.

(Not to be confused with the 980 non-ti)

 

Other than that, see what Moonzy said above ^

[teddy710]

21 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

if possible, use pcpartpicker.com

 

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1) purely gaming, i recommend getting an i5 6600k, you wont see much benefit from an i7

2) i'd swap that GTX970 for an r9 390 for better DX11, and especially DX12 performance

3) get an 850 evo ssd, i dont see any reason to go 850 pro for a gaming rig

4) overkill ram, get vengeance lpx or hyper x

5) i recommend WD blue drives over seagate `-`

6) get an air cooler or a dual rad, single rad is not worth the money

 

It's gonna be used for gaming and video editing

[Moonzy]

2 minutes ago, teddy710 said:

video editing

as a hobby? as a job? how often will you video edit

its fine to edit on an i5, it just takes a longer time `-`

 

people make it seems like editing on an i5 is the end of the world scenario lol

[teddy710]

2 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

as a hobby? as a job? how often will you video edit

its fine to edit on an i5, it just takes a longer time `-`

 

people make it seems like editing on an i5 is the end of the world scenario lol

Hobby and probably every week or so, but what's the performance difference between the i5 and i7 

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, teddy710 said:

Hobby and probably every week or so, but what's the performance difference between the i5 and i7 

single thread? close to none if they're of the same generation

multi thread? about 1.5x-ish?