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Disclaimer, I've never built a gaming pc before so I'm pretty new to this...  

My goal is to have this up and running prior to Fallout 4.  I'm also in the middle of moving so I want to hold off on purchasing parts until that’s out of the way.  So there's a decent amount of time to snipe the good deals when they come around.  Looking to be in the $1,300 to $1,500 range.

Leaning towards Skylake/futureproofing my build.

Here's what I had in mind (Revised):

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LKHFNG



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For someone who hasn't built a PC before, You actually put together a pretty good system! Depending on how many games you'll be playing, you may want a larger HDD. With many modern PC games taking up 50 GBs or more of storage, it will fill up pretty quick if you install a lot of games.

You could also bump up the RAM one more notch, to 16 GB. Just based on the power of that rig, a bit more RAM could help it with some higher-end games, as well as multitasking. But luckily, RAM is super-easy to upgrade, so maybe you don't need that much RAM right away, but you can bring it up later.



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Just plug those parts into pcpartpicker.com, probably save you some money. Also i see that you going with i5 4690k, assuming you are going to overclock? If so you probably want to pick up an aftermarket cpu cooler.



Looks good to me. I would personally get an aftermarket cooler for the cpu for future OCing as well as the stock fan can get pretty noisy but that's just me. I personally like liquid coolers but air cooling is certainly awesome as well. If you do decide to get a liquid cooler, I would suggest getting Corsair since my friend had an h60 which recently leaked and killed his GTX 770 but corsair gave the market value pricing for his damaged parts and replaced the cooler and now he has a 970 for almost free!

But there are also pretty great air coolers out there too if you don't want to go for liquid or you can just stick with the stock cooler altogether if you don't mind the noise



                  

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

Not much needs to be changed. Your build looks quite good, unless you want to save money with compromises in the motherboard arena. Only other thing to I would say is make sure you are going to overclock - that is the whole purpose of your CPU/MB combo and will let you play 6th gen emulators and get maximum performance in CPU heavy games.



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Sentient_Nebula said:
For someone who hasn't built a PC before, You actually put together a pretty good system! Depending on how many games you'll be playing, you may want a larger HDD. With many modern PC games taking up 50 GBs or more of storage, it will fill up pretty quick if you install a lot of games.

You could also bump up the RAM one more notch, to 16 GB. Just based on the power of that rig, a bit more RAM could help it with some higher-end games, as well as multitasking. But luckily, RAM is super-easy to upgrade, so maybe you don't need that much RAM right away, but you can bring it up later.


Lol I had some free time today.  16 GB RAM seems like a good idea, plus its cheap.  An upgrade of the HDD would also be cheap.  Thanks for the input.



FIT_Gamer said:
Just plug those parts into pcpartpicker.com, probably save you some money. Also i see that you going with i5 4690k, assuming you are going to overclock? If so you probably want to pick up an aftermarket cpu cooler.


Will do.  Not sure about overclocking, I remember seeing a video on how its done a while ago, seemed relatively easy.  Will it really make big difference?



Captain_Yuri said:

Looks good to me. I would personally get an aftermarket cooler for the cpu for future OCing as well as the stock fan can get pretty noisy but that's just me. I personally like liquid coolers but air cooling is certainly awesome as well. If you do decide to get a liquid cooler, I would suggest getting Corsair since my friend had an h60 which recently leaked and killed his GTX 770 but corsair gave the market value pricing for his damaged parts and replaced the cooler and now he has a 970 for almost free!

But there are also pretty great air coolers out there too if you don't want to go for liquid or you can just stick with the stock cooler altogether if you don't mind the noise

Not planning on going down the liquid cooling route, but I will look into replacing the stock fan if I OC.  I wouldn't mind having a quieter pc as well.



sc94597 said:
Not much needs to be changed. Your build looks quite good, unless you want to save money with compromises in the motherboard arena. Only other thing to I would say is make sure you are going to overclock - that is the whole purpose of your CPU/MB combo and will let you play 6th gen emulators and get maximum performance in CPU heavy games.

Noted, that is something I am very interested in doing.



What are your thoughts on the psu? I've always been told to not go cheap on it but it seems a little pricey.