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Yeah Yeah I know this is suppose to be in the pc discussion but since that section of vgchartz is pretty much empty I'm putting it here.

The main game I intend to play with this rig is fallout 4

HDD:  65$

Western Digital Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339

Power supply: 90$

SeaSonic M12II 520 Bronze 520W ATX12V v2.3 / EPS 12V v2.91 SLI 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151093

Memory: 65$

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314

Mother board: 110$

MSI B85M GAMING LGA 1150

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130763&_ga=1.259619722.1891394650.1437880063

CPU: 270$

Intel Core i5-4690 Haswell Quad-Core 3.5GHz

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116989

GPU: 430$

EVGA 04G-P4-2974-KR GeForce GTX 970 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487076

Case: 125$

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139066

Total: 1155$ before taxes ( pc gaming is cheap, my ass!!)

Those are canadian prices.

I'm using a neo***f thread as a guide for the pieces.

I don't play that many games on pc, but I want one that is capable of multitasking without slowdowns. And won't be totally irrelevant in 2 years. I'd like to know what you guys think before I do the final purchase.

I hope the lack of ssd won't bottleneck too much my cpu, I'll get a cheap one on boxing day

 

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I'd recommend using pcpartpicker.com you'd probably save some money. 

Also, if you plan you overclock you'll need a after market CPU cooler. If you not, you shuld just go with i5 4690 and H97 motherboard. Save you some more money.



$180 for a motherboard? Hm. You also don't need to spend that much on a case unless you just want something that proclaims your master race status. Personal choice there, of course. I did the same on my first gaming PC but after that I didn't care. Actually, it looks like you can do a lot better on prices all over the place, like the power supply.

I'm also reading that it's not a bad idea to wait on buying a CPU until Intel launches their new line, which might drop prices on older units. That's what I'm doing, as I'll probably get a new PC for Fallout 4, as well.



pokoko said:
$180 for a motherboard? Hm. You also don't need to spend that much on a case unless you just want something that proclaims your master race status. Personal choice there, of course. I did the same on my first gaming PC but after that I didn't care. Actually, it looks like you can do a lot better on prices all over the place, like the power supply.

I'm also reading that it's not a bad idea to wait on buying a CPU until Intel launches their new line, which might drop prices on older units. That's what I'm doing, as I'll probably get a new PC for Fallout 4, as well.

those are canadian prices



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The HDD is fine, its just at that price it seems a bit high. You should shop around and see if you can get it cheaper. Or get the Western Digital Black 1TB which is more geared towards gamers. $5 more on newegg.

I personally only trust Antec and Corsair for Power Supplies. Maybe this? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139051

GPU, I prefer Nvidia just because I despise AMD drivers. But its a fine card.

Reason its not cheap is because you are getting a very strong cpu, mobo, and gpu :P



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Sharpryno said:
The HDD is fine, its just at that price it seems a bit high. You should shop around and see if you can get it cheaper. Or get the Western Digital Black 1TB which is more geared towards gamers. $5 more on newegg.

I personally only trust Antec and Corsair for Power Supplies. Maybe this? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139051

GPU, I prefer Nvidia just because I despise AMD drivers. But its a fine card.

Reason its not cheap is because you are getting a very strong cpu, mobo, and gpu :P

Yeah I know but I rather spend more now and be good in 2 years instead of saving now and fealing the need for upgrades in a few years



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270? Hmm, I would rather get the 960 instead

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127844&cm_re=960-_-14-127-844-_-Product

Even comes with a free copy of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

I will look at the rest after but yea, Canadian prices suck!!!! If you build the same pc with US prices, it is soo much cheaper which sucks for canadians T_T



                  

PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850

FIT_Gamer said:

I'd recommend using pcpartpicker.com you'd probably save some money. 

Also, if you plan you overclock you'll need a after market CPU cooler. If you not, you shuld just go with i5 4690 and H97 motherboard. Save you some more money.

What I my loosing If I go for a cheaper mobo?



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chapset said:
FIT_Gamer said:

I'd recommend using pcpartpicker.com you'd probably save some money. 

Also, if you plan you overclock you'll need a after market CPU cooler. If you not, you shuld just go with i5 4690 and H97 motherboard. Save you some more money.

What I my loosing If I go for a cheaper mobo?

If you go with i5 4690 you won't be able to overclock it. So no point in spending that much money on mobo you aren't going to take advantage of anyways.