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Looking to Build a new Tower Help Needed.

DaHolyMan17·10/19/2014, 3:40:54 PM·1 votes·637 views

Hey don't know if im at the right place but I am looking to build a new tower and need some advice. I just wanna know what you guys suggest as for a good gaming pc that will run all games on ultra with no problem, what should I change ? Thanks. heres a link to pcpartpicker.com to show my selected build. also posted all the item I am interested in below. http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/chacet17/saved/cPFCmG

CPU Intel Core i7-4790 3.6GHz Quad-Core $317.95
CPU Cooler be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 93.3 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing $69.99
Motherboard Asus Z97-A ATX LGA1150 $154.79
Memory Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 $194.98
Storage Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB 2.5" SSD $128.17
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM $69.99
Video Card Asus GeForce GTX 760 4GB ROG $303.67
Case Rosewill THOR V2-W ATX Full Tower $159.98
Power Supply Rosewill 1000W ATX12V / EPS12V $139.98
Optical Drive Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer $19.95
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) $99.79
Sound Card Asus Xonar DG $19.99
Wired Network Adapter Intel EXPI9301CT 10/100/1000 Mbps PCI-Express x1 $41.01

2 Comments

Aurora Celeste10/19/2014, 5:06:14 PM1 votes

For the most part, its fine. You could still get a computer that runs stuff on ultra for less even money than you are currently planning to spend.

Just a few things though

  1. You can probably get rid of the network adapter. You have an Ethernet port on your motherboard. Not sure why you need the adapter.
  2. I would swap your air cooler with a liquid cooler. I assume you are building it yourself if you are buying the parts individually, so I recommend a liquid cooler because its usually quieter, smaller, colder, and MUCH easier to install. And it frees up the other 2 ram slots on your computer. I've never heard of the cooler you have selected, but a $70 USD liquid cooler by Nzxt or Corsair would be my recommendation. Not sure how much that is in Canadian dollars.
  3. Move some money from your ram to your GPU. Keep the 16 GB, but paying more for MHz on ram gives maybe 1 or 2 FPS if that, same thing goes for the frame buffer on GPU cards so anything over 2 GB is usually not worth it. You see better gains in the next tier GPU. Using the money from the removal of the network adapter and the spending less on the RAM, I would get a GTX 770 from Asus or Evga.
Der Lindwurm10/19/2014, 7:37:13 PM1 votes

A higher-end Core i5 would probably be just as good as an i7 for most things. Not that an i7 would hurt.