[damien c]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Looks more like you are trying to build an extreme overclocking machine than a gaming machine. Unless you are intent on squeezing every last micron of performance out of your components, you could save a good few hundred quid by buying better value kit that gives 90% the performance for 50% the price.

Just the other day we built a gaming machine capable of a full 60fps in many games at 4K resolution for under £1500. And £500 of that was for the 28" 4K monitor...

I would love to see the specs of a pc capable of playing games at 4K at 60fps solid for less than £1000.

Even my pc will not play games at 60fps in many games, unless I dropped the details down to either medium or low.


As for the spec's in the OP, if you are only going to be gaming then grab yourself either the 4690K or a AMD 8350, they will perform almost the same as a 4790K but cost quite abit less.

The motherboard should be swapped for a MSI Z97-GD65 Gaming, as it's cheaper but will perform the same and overclock the same for Intel or a MSI 990FXA-GD80 for AMD.

Gigabyte boards and Asus boards have a habit of dieing after 16 months when you are overclocking on them, as the Sata ports start playing up, then the USB ports and eventually they stop picking up your ram and GPU's, from my experience.

The SSD should be upgraded to a 512Gb if you want games on it, as you can get a 512Gb now from Overclockers for £150, games are taking up more space on drives thanks to lazy developers.

The cooler should be swapped for a H100i as it performs better, and you should swap the fans for some Noctua NF-F12's as they will make it perform better and be quieter than the stock fans.

Graphics card should be swapped for either a Gainward or MSI GTX780, as the Poseidon card is useless unless you are planning on a full custom waterloop.

No mention of sound card but I highly recommend the Asus Xonar DX.

Everything else looks fine.