Advice on new build

[Coffinmaker]

Hi all, looking for some feedback on this build. I'm reusing the following parts which have worked flawlessly since 2010.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16811147153
Case

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16817139005
PSU

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16827106335
DVD drive

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16822148445
HDD


I'm purhasing the following items to use with this system. I'm aiming for good framerates on BF4


http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16814125466
Video Card (GTX 760)

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16819113285
CPU

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16820231455
RAM

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16813131851
Mobo

Plus a copy of Windows 8.1 64 bit OEM

I would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have. I'm hoping these will all work together. Thanks!!

 

[Coffinmaker]

Also, is the 650watt PSU enough to run all this? Note that the CPU is a 125W. Thanks!

 

[Charlie98]

Why AMD? You'd be better off with an i5-4670K and a Z87 board for BF4, add a CoolerMaster 212 Evo and give it a moderate OC and you'll be in high cotton.

The GPU looks like a good match, just make sure your Rosewill case can take an almost 12" GPU....

650w PSU is good...

 

[Coffinmaker]

I have had an AMD processor for 3 years and it's worked flawlessly. I like the bang for my buck with them. How about this for a video card? It seems a tad smaller than the gigabyte.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16814121775

 

[Cerb]

Can you answer the sticky questions?

 

[mfenn]

Can you answer the sticky questions?

Agree.

I have had an AMD processor for 3 years and it's worked flawlessly. I like the bang for my buck with them. How about this for a video card? It seems a tad smaller than the gigabyte.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16814121775

I don't know that I would consider a relatively slow $160 CPU paired with a $140 AR motherboard to be good bang for the buck. If you're not planning to overclock, then an i5 4430 for $195 with an ASRock H87 Pro4 for $95 AR would give you overall better gaming performance.

As for the RAM, I think I'd stick with DDR3 1600 to save $10. The performance difference between 1600 and 1866 is not large when you have a discrete GPU.

Speaking of GPU, good pick on the ASUS card. Their cooler is just as good as the Gigabyte without being huge.

 

[Coffinmaker]

Even though the i5 is just a quad core? How is it better than the 8 core amd?

 

[Cerb]

By each of those 8 cores being substantially slower.

 

[mfenn]

By each of those 8 cores being substantially slower.

I agree. Cores are not created equal. Each of AMD's cores is substantially slower than the equivalent Intel core in terms of IPC (the amount of work that they can get done per clock).

Additionally, all new AMD chips are based on a "modular" architecture where each "core" is really an integer unit that shares a floating point unit with its neighbor. In other words the cores aren't completely independent processing units like Intel cores are. They're somewhere between a full core and an Intel Hyperthread in terms of capabilities.