One Hardass PC Build.

For those of you who like boasting the parts you’ve chosen for your PC builds, tell me what you think about what I’ve picked out for my build. I’m still unsure on most of the parts however, so suggestions are welcome.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU COOLER: NZXT Kraken X61 RL-KRX61-01 280mm All-In-One Water / Liquid CPU Cooling Solution
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Memory: ADATA XPG V2 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200)
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 4GB
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Titanium Grey) ATX Mid Tower Case
Monitor: Dell U2412M 60Hz 24.0" Monitor
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan
HDD: WD Se WD1002F9YZ 1TB 7200 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Enterprise Hard Drive
PSU: SeaSonic M12II 620 Bronze 620W ATX12V V2.3 / EPS 12V V2.91 SLI Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Total: 1667.36
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-21 21:40 EDT-0400

One question:

Why are you getting an 4690K and having no additional CPU cooler? That defeats the purpose of overclocking (which is the only reason to buy that CPU) especially since you are buying thermal compound to go on nothing. The stock intel fan has TIM on it.

Also I personally recommend Samsung SSD’s because I know they work well.

Other than that, solid.

that moment, when you read hardware specs, and its gibberish

Updated almost everything just now. I had the same thought, but at the moment I found the Overclockable version to be about $20 cheaper. I may add an extra cooler to it.

I love the Fractal R4 case. Can’t say enough good things about it. Rest of the stuff looks good too! I demand photos when it arrives.

Okay now I have a few more questions

Why did you change to the GTX770? The R9 290 may have been a bit better for the money honestly, even though I am partial to nvidia.

Got rid of the 144Hz monitor :frowning:

Power Supply change is not a big deal, that Seasonic PSU is amazing.

And if you have a .edu you can often get Windows for free through Dreamspark, either Server 2012, or Embedded 8 (which will run any games fine, just is generally a lot smaller in file size when installed.)

Just changed due to money reasons for the GPU, seeing as the difference really isn’t that big as they are both good cards.

Changed the monitor because my friend was so 100% sure that the U2412M was better than the 144hz monitor due to it being IPS

And I had no idea Microsoft offered a form of windows 8 to students, totally getting that now.

I bought an IPS monitor and regret not getting a 120+Hz monitor, especially because of CS:GO. I don’t need that good of color accuracy, even when I want to edit photos, video, etc. Those are fantastic monitors, just that not necessarily geared towards gaming, which I assume is a big part of this rig.

Ewwww… Intel
Ewwww… GeForce

I did think about switching to a GeForce, but then I realised that out of all of my games, only one was optimized for Nvidia Cards, and the others were either AMD (which I have) or not optimized, so it isn’t really worth switching.

And PC Parts in the US are so much cheaper than here. The processor would cost £172 here, but the US price converted is £126, and both are 21% off.

Once more I’ve updated this. Added CPU cooler, changed GPU, changed ram.

You do realize that most of that optimization is horseshit right? It gives at most a 5% advantage on top of the default FPS. If you buy an nvidia card, it doesn’t mean that game will run bad, to have that as a notion in your mind is incredibly wrong.

Also AMD CPU’s are shit. If I’m honest. If you are building any PC over $400 you should buy an Intel CPU. They are so much more efficient per clock cycle relative to power and performance. I would rather have an i3 than a Hex core AMD any day, unless you are encoding bat shit amounts of video.