Newbie Assistance with a build

[MadMarkCo]

Hey all you Hardware masters – I am in the process of gathering parts for my first build. I have already purchased a bunch of stuff but am looking to seal the deal and get the last couple of big items and am looking for a hand in selecting these. My budget is around 1K for the whole build. I have been sticking around this by picking up deals on bits and pieces. I used to be gamer but have fallen out on this over the past 10 years. Thinking of maybe playing Battle Field 4 – the New SimCity –Assassin’s Creed stuff like that. I run Win 7 but would also like to dual boot Linux as I my job entails working on linux servers all day. So the list of what I have purchased is below the two big missing items as you will see are the cpu and the video card. From the MoBo purchase you will see I am looking to get an Intel processor. I am running a 1920 x 1800 resolution right now but would not mind going higher. I am also a fan of dual monitors. I have not done any OCing but would like to try just to get my hands wet. I know my cooling system is overboard but I got it at half price so it was a good deal. I want to make certain that my power module can handle my Video Card and everything else but I think I gave myself plenty of leeway there. If I have screwed up somewhere or am missing something feel free to let me know. I am old I can handle the criticism.

Thanks ahead of time the assistance.
MadMarkCo

[FONT=&quot]Case: NZXT Phantom 410 Series CA-PH410-B3 Black/Orange Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Orange Trim Computer Case
Power Module: CORSAIR HX Series HX750 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD
Mother Board: MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Extreme OC High Performance Triple CFX/ SLI Intel Motherboard
Cooling: CORSAIR Hydro H100i
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit OEM
HD1: SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE250BW 2.5" 250GB SATA 6Gb/s MLC Internal Solid State Drive
HD2: Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
DVD : ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner
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Missing items that I know of:
CPU – thinking of Haswell Core 15 4670K ?
Video Card – Some GTX 760??
RAM – 8 or 16GB?
Extra Fans (with lighting)
Audio card?
Network card?

 

[JumBie]

Use mfenn's midrange build its the top sticky in the forum, thats really all you need.

 

[Charlie98]

How much left of your $1000 do you have?

The i5-4670K will be a fine CPU

8GB of 1600 RAM will work as well

Fans, audio and network? Depends on your needs but based on your description I would say no.

Based on your description, the mobo and cooler are complete overkill... but you already have them, so...

750w PSU is more than adequate.

 

[MadMarkCo]

Thank you for your response Charlie98 - I think I am looking to spend another $600 to $700 - this is a bit over 1K but my budget is not written in stone. I know that that the cooler and motherboard are overkill but I got good prices on both so I figured what the hell and I could always upgrade components in the future and would be nice to have a MoBo that could handle that.
MC

 

[Charlie98]

If you still have that kind of budget, you can go for a GTX770 in lieu of the 760...

 

[mfenn]

Buying a fancy mobo with the intention to upgrade is pretty fallacious in today's market. A $200 Socket 1150 mobo isn't going to be able to take a Socket 1160 (or whatever) CPU any more than a $90 one will. Upgrading to SLI would be able the only place where a more expensive board would help, but that's not recommended because normally you'll either go SLI right off the bat or enough time will have passed that you will be better off just getting a faster single card.

As for the remaining parts:

i5 4670K $240
Team DDR3 1600 8GB $68
ASUS GTX 770 $320 AR
Total: $628 AR

Oh, and as for running Linux, I'd probably just use it in a virtual machine. That'll give you the ability to do both side by side, and most things that you're doing to do for work are going to be totally fine in a VM. Getting experience with virtualization itself is also a good thing.

 

[MadMarkCo]

mfenn thanks for the reply. Yea I know the MoBo was overkill and a n00bie mistake which is why I am here making certain I do not do the same with other parts. Just so I understand properly, what would a board like mine be good for? Is this for overclocking the highest end CPU? I was not certain about 2GB or 4GB GB graphic card. It seems that a 4GB card would be overkill and not even utilized by most games/programs. Am I reading that properly? For the RAM - 8gb would be enough? It used to be that RAM would really help a PC performance but it seems much of that has been pushed off to the Graphic Cards. Also am I correct in going with the i5 instead of i7 - for games it seems that you do not get much benefit going to the i7. Thanks for the advice for running linux in a Virtual Machine, I should have thought of that. Once again thanks for helping this old n00bie out.
MC

 

[mfenn]

Yes, the GD65 should be a good overclocker. However, many much less expensive boards are also good overclockers unless you go really crazy with CPU voltage. Increasing the voltage is what really drives power draw through the roof and stresses the mobo.

I'd stick with the 2GB GTX 770. The 4GB cards have come down in price a lot, so that you'd only be paying a 10% premium, so I won't judge you too harshly for picking one up.

8GB of RAM is plenty unless you want to keep the Linux VM running while you game. Getting more RAM doesn't make your computer faster, but not having enough RAM can make it slower.

And yes, stick with the i5, gaming doesn't benefit enough from the i7 to make it worth the price increase.

 

[MadMarkCo]

mfenn - I appreciate your responses and am off to purchase my CPU and GPU. BTW did a VMware and CentOS install on my laptop this morning. It was so easy I feel I must have done something wrong. This is going to be great since I work from the command line - much nicer using the linux C shell and run a direct SSH than having to bring up PuTTy. With this I can also test out scripts on my local machine. Not certain why I did not do this earlier.

 

[mfenn]

Great, glad the VM is working out for you. Let us know how the build goes and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions!