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Building a PC for a friend

chriscoolzap
By chriscoolzap
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Hey, I was just wondering if you guys could help me put together a build for my friend, He doesn't want me overclocking but he wants the performance to power his 1080p monitor. lol His budget is around $900 not anything higher than $1000. The games he plays are CS:GO; Minecraft; GTA 5; Battlefield 4; etc. Also, he's in love with this case (spec alpha) so no way he's changing his mind. I tried making build for him on pcpartpicker so make sure to check it out. 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Yw6mdC

CPU: Intel Core I74790k
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Looks OK, but replace that DDR4 ram with DDR3, that CPU and MOBO don't accept it

Also you can use a 600 W PSU instead of 700 W to save some $$$

And I'd recommend the MSI 970 Twin Frozr V for the cooler

i7 4790k | MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition | G.Skill Ripjaws X 16 GB | Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB | 2x Seagate Barracuda 2TB | MSI GTX 970 Twin Frozr V | Fractal Design R4 | EVGA 650W

A gaming PC for your budget: $800 - $1000 - $1500 - $1800 - $2600 - $9001

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something like this?

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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/P3t4FT
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/P3t4FT/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus H170 PRO GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($102.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($84.88 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($72.33 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card  ($317.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: Corsair SPEC-ALPHA ATX Mid Tower Case  ($79.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($95.25 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1003.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-24 22:20 EDT-0400

 

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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23 minutes ago, chriscoolzap said:

Also, he's in love with this case (spec alpha) so no way he's changing his mind.

Sounds like he already has a build. Could you list the specs for his existing build?

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The problem is that this is an nVidia product and scoring any nVidia product a "zero" is also highly predictive of the number of nVidia products the reviewer will receive for review in the future.

On 2015-01-28 at 5:24 PM, Victorious Secret said:

Only yours, you don't shitpost on the same level that we can, mainly because this thread is finally dead and should be locked.

On 2016-06-07 at 11:25 PM, patrickjp93 said:

I wasn't wrong. It's extremely rare that I am. I provided sources as well. Different devs can disagree. Further, we now have confirmed discrepancy from Twitter about he use of the pre-release 1080 driver in AMD's demo despite the release 1080 driver having been out a week prior.

On 2016-09-10 at 4:32 PM, Hikaru12 said:

You apparently haven't seen his responses to questions on YouTube. He is very condescending and aggressive in his comments with which there is little justification. He acts totally different in his videos. I don't necessarily care for this content style and there is nothing really unique about him or his channel. His endless dick jokes and toilet humor are annoying as well.

 

 

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You have ddr4 in a ddr3 system if you want ddr4 you will need a 6gen i3 i5 i7 to use ddr4

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