Buying/Building Gaming PC!

How are these specs??

Case - Carbide Series® Air 240
Graphics Card - NVIDIA GTX 750Ti
Processor - Intel Core i5-4590 3.30 Ghz
RAM - HyperX 8 Gig x2
Storage - 2 TB
Corsair Liquid cooling

 

Downgrading again? I honestly don't understand what's going on with your budget - or why you don't just buy the damn parts and build it. It's not that hard. Really.

Anyway, here we go again. That's a terrible build.
1. You're wasting money on a really expensive case when your budget doesn't allow it
2. You're water cooling a CPU that cannot be overclocked and runs just fine with the box cooler
3. Too much RAM. You really don't need 16GB for gaming. Waste of money.
4. CPU is more expensive than an i5-4460 and about 5% better. Pointless.
5. The 750Ti is barely passable for 1080p gaming. If you fix all the other issues with your build, you could get an R9 380 or GTX 960, both of which are much much better.

And finally, I don't know the price. It sounds an awful lot like something you'd find in a pre-built - in which case it's probably very overpriced too.
If you're sticking to your CAD1000 budget, and this is a horribly overpriced pre-built, don't buy it. Go with the last build I linked instead.
If you've lowered your budget yet again for whatever reason, here's a cheaper PC that's still better than the build you posted: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/vwQB23

TBH I don't even know why I keep replying to this thread - I must have posted at least 8 different builds so far in the last 6 months. Are you actually planning to build a PC?

 

That PC for 850$ so i thought its pretty good

 

It's not. How many times have I told you not to buy a pre built PC because they're expensive and poorly built?

If you're not planning to actually build a PC, please just tell me, because I'm wasting my time here.

 

I want to build a PC, I'm scared that i'll break something,

Could you maybe find me a good barebone kit at tigerdirect.ca then tell me a good gpu to get??

Thank you

 

Also the build you linked me has problems:

• ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard has an onboard USB 3.0 header, but the NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case does not have front panel USB 3.0 ports.
• The NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case supports video cards up to 330mm long, but video cards over 230mm may block drive bays. Since the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card is 242mm long, some drive bays may not be usable.

 

Building a PC is really easy - basically expensive legos, just plug it in where it fits, and if it doesn't, don't force it, look somewhere else. There are plenty of tutorials on youtube, just look for 'how to build a PC' or something like that. Don't worry too much about part choice either - find something that's good (the list I linked is made with price/performance at that budget in mind, about the best you can get for the money) and buy it.
Just settle for a build, buy the parts, look at some videos and put it together - actually doing it is the only way to learn. If you're not sure, find an old PC and take it apart then rebuild it.
I honestly cannot recommend buying anything other than parts. Anything pre-built is overpriced and usually worse too.

Those aren't problems, just 'notes'. It simply means:
The motherboard supports front USB 3.0 but the case doesn't - you'll have USB 2.0 in the front instead, you still get USB 3.0 in the back.
You won't be able to fit as many hard drives with the graphics card installed - usually you can still have about 3 so not a problem.

 

OK guys I am serious now! How would you rate this?

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/L7Z87P

 

1. You're getting an unlocked CPU with a non-OC board. Either save money and buy a non-K 6600, or get a Z board if you want to overclock.
2. You don't need 16GB of RAM for gaming.
3. Most games are GPU bound, for that budget you can get a GTX 970 if you get 8GB RAM, a lower end i5, and use the stock cooler (good enough for non-K CPUs).
4. Gigabyte and MSI aren't very good at low end boards. Go with Asus instead.

This is a better build:
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/fpJVsY
It's even slightly cheaper, and will perform much better in games. Compared to your build you get:

• A slightly less powerful CPU
• A better motherboard
• Less RAM (which you don't need anyway)
  
• A much, much better GPU

You can probably change the RAM for 16GB if you want to and it would still be within your budget.

 

Okay sweet. So for once my build was 'ok' but what if i want to OC?
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I was told processor is bottleneck in your build for me

 

Who told you that? Performance is only slightly worse (10-15%) than a 6600K. Most games are GPU bound, and with next gen APIs such as DX12 and Vulkan reducing CPU overhead even further, you won't need a high end CPU for gaming at all.

It was not 'ok', it was pretty unbalanced.
If you want to OC, get a 6600K and a Z170 board. But you really shouldn't do that - a better GPU is much more important in games than the CPU, and the 6400 is good enough.

 

Okay. With that build how many fps and cars on beamngdrive and hows performance in gta v / flight sim x / american truck sim

 

You'd get 60+ FPS in BeamNG maxed out with dynamic reflections set to mid quality, with up to 4 cars.
GTA V, stable 60 FPS on high settings. Might drop to ~40 in areas with lots of grass unless you lower vegetation detail or grass density a bit.
FSX and ATS should run at 60+ FPS maxed out no problem.

 

Really!!! What about city car driving???? Battle Field 4 battle front black ops 3 fallout 4?
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rainbvow 6 division

 

Most of those games I have no idea - you can probably find results for the GTX 970 online, CPU usually makes little difference (most GPU benchmarks are run on something like an overclocked 5960X to eliminate any kind of CPU bottleneck, but an i5 won't bottleneck the 970 at all).
Fallout 4 will run at 60FPS on ultra (with volumetric lighting on medium, but there's almost no visual difference), with a few drops to 40-50 in central Boston with lots of buildings.

It will run pretty much anything in 1080p 60FPS high/ultra settings though, the 970's a beast.

Also, some maps in Beam (specifically Industrial and Port) might cause your framerate to drop to low 40s when there are lots of static meshes in frame. Pretty sure it's Torque3D not handling static meshes very well. JRI, Small Island and HR do run at a stable 70-80 fps though. Also, disable Vsync - use the frame limiter set to 70-80 instead to prevent dropping to 50-55 when you could otherwise have 60+. You can also disable the frame limiter entirely, but you'll put an unnecessary load on your GPU and it'll run hotter and louder for no reason.

 

what 970 should I get? EVGA?

 

EVGA, MSI, Asus or Gigabyte. Whichever is cheaper really. I have the MSI and it's great, but the other brands also have very good coolers.

 

okay sweet. and if i cant afford a 970 and have to get a 960 what one should I get?

 

Same, just get MSI, EVGA, Asus or Gigabyte. But go for the 970, it's much much better. Don't ditch it for a better CPU, more RAM, or an SSD. GPU is by far the most important thing in a gaming PC.

 

ok ill spend most my budget on the 970
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is that the best build I can get 1000$ cad