Need help for building gaming PC

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i am thinking of building a gaming pc and i want to play most of the new games at minimum high settings. my budget for everything including the monitor, keyboard, headphones, speaker and mic and webcam (because i want to start a youtube channel) is around 1500 dollars.

i have made a list of the components on pc partpicker and i would like someone to tell me if it is perfect or something needs to be changed

here is the link: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wPWFwP

please tell me if anything should be changed or it is perfect
 
Everything looks good to me.

You won't be able to play Tom Clancy’s The Division on max settings though, but you will be able to run it.
 
Everything looks good to me.

You won't be able to play Tom Clancy’s The Division on max settings though, but you will be able to run it.
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okay thx!
 
Everything looks great indeed. Good luck with your build!
 
One thing to note: You chose a GTX 960. I know it is a great card, but bear with me:

The R9 380, which you can get for around the same price ($10 cheaper than the 960 in this case) does outperform the GTX 960 by a small amount, but that amount it outperforms it by will only increase in the future, especially with better adaptation of Vulkan, and DX12. The R9 390X outperforms the GTX 980Ti in some titles where it's Async compute is put to use.

So, go with the R9 380. It's better, for less price in your case.

Best option would be to wait till the next-gen cards come out. They will bring a new manufacturing process (14nm), which will bring huge efficiency improvements. At the very least, prices of current cards will drop further.



Here's your edited link: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GBJzmG

Edit: You could save a few dollars by swapping that case for something like an NZXT S340, or NZXT Source 210, which are big enough for even 4-way SLI setups. A full tower seems way to big for that spec.
 
One thing to note: You chose a GTX 960. I know it is a great card, but bear with me:

The R9 380, which you can get for around the same price ($10 cheaper than the 960 in this case) does outperform the GTX 960 by a small amount, but that amount it outperforms it by will only increase in the future, especially with better adaptation of Vulkan, and DX12. The R9 390X outperforms the GTX 980Ti in some titles where it's Async compute is put to use.

So, go with the R9 380. It's better, for less price in your case.

Best option would be to wait till the next-gen cards come out. They will bring a new manufacturing process (14nm), which will bring huge efficiency improvements. At the very least, prices of current cards will drop further.



Here's your edited link: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GBJzmG

Edit: You could save a few dollars by swapping that case for something like an NZXT S340, or NZXT Source 210, which are big enough for even 4-way SLI setups. A full tower seems way to big for that spec.
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thx for the suggestion! ill think 'bout it
 
thx for the suggestion! ill think 'bout it
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Also, one more thing. I know you didn't build this system with VR in mind, but a suggestion: Choosing 3000Mhz ram is not going to do much at all for your system, especially for consumer usage. I'd recommend something like DDR4-2400, or even DDR4-2133, as there will be pretty much no difference at all. If you go with something like G.Skill Ripjaws 2133 Mhz, you can save a few dollars. One more thing is the CD writer. There is next no no application of a CD writer nowadays, even for Windows. That can be done off a USB flash drive. Saving a few dollars on the case will allow you to put the money towards an R9 390, which will easily last you a few years, especially with the power and VRAM it has (8GB)
 
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Also, one more thing. I know you didn't build this system with VR in mind, but a suggestion: Choosing 3000Mhz ram is not going to do much at all for your system, especially for consumer usage. I'd recommend something like DDR4-2400, or even DDR4-2133, as there will be pretty much no difference at all. If you go with something like G.Skill Ripjaws 2133 Mhz, you can save a few dollars. One more thing is the CD writer. There is next no no application of a CD writer nowadays, even for Windows. That can be done off a USB flash drive. Saving a few dollars on the case will allow you to put the money towards an R9 390, which will easily last you a few years, especially with the power and VRAM it has (8GB)
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ok ill see what i can do about it thx for the suggestions!
 
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