Building a Gaming Rig

[DanielPatrick]

I would like to build a Gaming Rig with the below specs. Let me know what you suggest and if there is something even better. Apart from gaming, I would like to use it for vmWare, Packet Tracer etc. Give me some suggestions and opinions if there is anything better from the below mentioned or maybe something you wouldn't suggest.

Alienware Case Full ATX Case
- Alienware Predator 1.5 7-Bay ATX Full Tower Gaming Case - No PSU (Black/Silver)
- Alienware Aurora R4 AAR4-2500MSB Desktop (Matte Stealth Black - Non ALX)


Power Supply unit (PSU)
- Corsair AX850 850W


CPU
- Motherboard supports Socket LGA1150
- Intel® Core™ i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, 4.4 GHz up to 4.40 GHz) Socket LGA1150


Motherboard
- Asus z97-a OR the Msi Z97 Gaming 5
- Suggested: Asus z97-a


RAM
- 8GB DDR3 RAM X 4
- 4 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR3
- Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3-2400 240-pin DIMM 4x8GB 32GB CAS 11 OR
- Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3-3100 240-pin DIMM 4x4GB 16GB CAS 12


HDD
- 2TB 7200RPM SSD Sata Hard Drive OR
- 500GB 4 X SATA 3 6Gbps ports


Video Card
- 5GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OR
- SLI x2: Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 DirectCU II 3GB GDDR5 Graphics Card (PCI Express 3.0) OR
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB GDDR5


OS
- Windows 10 (64-bit)

 

[Geoff]

Case is personal preference

Why are you going with the dead 1150 socket CPU? I'd go with an i7 6700k

1151 socket motherboard

DDR4 RAM, and 2800 seems to be the sweet spot for price to performance. You can always overclock it higher yourself

Why would you buy 4x 500GB? Get a 250/500GB Samsung 850 Evo and a 2TB+ drive for storage

Buying such old cards like the 660 or 780 would be pointless, the 980 is worlds better and supports DX12

 

[beers]

2TB 7200RPM SSD Sata Hard Drive

This phrase pains me..

 

[mep916]

For ~$40 more, you can get the MSI gaming 7 which includes RAID (you may or may not use in the future), USB 3.1, OC Genie on the board and some other cool features. I have one and love it so far. It's a pretty killer board.