Been thinking about selling my PS4 and tablet/laptop to go towards a gaming PC.
Sorry if this is frowned upon or anything but can someone check out this list and tell me if there are any obvious alterations (upgrades or downgrades welcome):
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/sc6M4D
I'm looking for cost effectiveness but also something that will last a while. Also, is $218 the best price I'll find on a 4670k for a while? I'm not in a rush but trying to get the best pricing I can.
Others will be able to advise you better but I would say that's a good start. Possible changes:
- The i5 4690k is the newest variant, although if the 4670k is a fair bit cheaper, the upgrade probably isn't worth it. If the prices are similar though, may be best to go with the newer version.
- Swap the Samsung SSD for a Crucial MX100, it's cheaper.
- The 770 probably isn't worth the price, either go for a 780, switch to AMD with a Radeon R9 290 (go for one that has a custom cooler from MSI, Gigabyte, Sapphire etc if you do this) or if you're not planning on building straight away, wait and see if the 800 series cards are released soon.
- I'm not sure you need such an expensive motherboard unless you're running SLI, possibly look at changing for a Gigabyte or Asus board that's cheaper? I put the Gigabyte Z97-HD3 in my new system, which is showing as $108 on PCPartPicker. I'm not sure if that's the best value motherboard though, just an example.
- Consider changing the power supply, from the many recommendations I've read here, CX PSUs aren't too highly recommended as they're Corsair's budget line of PSUs and that's not really something you want to go too cheap with. Possibly look at either Corsair RM750 or HX650, or different brands (EVGA and Coolermaster seem highly recommended here and in the OP).