Gaming computer spec check?

Lawford

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Hello, I was curious to whether someone could have a look at a potential Gaming PC I was going to get for christmas. I have had a friend of mine take a look at it, and he said it was good apart from its motherboard and graphics card. I was just wanting a double check over by some other people to make sure it had a bad graphics card and motherboard, and overall PC.
(I'm not 100% sure if I can create a thread on this, so I won't be shocked if this gets closed)

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Motherboard - Haswell CPU only
Graphics card: Chillblast NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Graphics Card

Computer specs:
Inside the intimidating Corsair SPEC-01 case case lurks a sporty Haswell i5 4690K processor overclocked up to 4.2 GHz , 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3 memory, and an exceptional Gigabyte Z97X-SLI motherboard, supporting brand new features like SATA Express, M2 and SLI. An Nvidia GTX 760 takes on all new games with ease at high settings while a 120GB SSD keeps everything running ultra-smoothly. A Freezer 7 Pro cooler makes sure that your temperatures stay low no matter what you’re doing and a 1TB hard drive is ready and waiting for all your vital photos, videos and documents.

Basic Specification:

Corsair SPEC-01 Case
Intel Core i5 4690K overclocked to 4.2GHz
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
Geforce GTX 760 2GB Video Card
Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Motherboard
8GB 1600 DDR3 Memory
120GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD
1000 GB 7200rpm HDD
FSP 500W PSU
24 x DVD RW
Windows 8.1 64 bit or Windows 7 at no extra charge

Ports on rear of system: *

4 x USB 3.0 ports
2 x USB 2.0 ports
Audio outputs
1 x 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet for network
2 x DVI outputs
1 x HDMI

* May vary if configuration is altered!

Ports on case:

1 x USB 2.0 port
1 x USB 3.0 port

FP audio

Thanks
 
Looks good except for the Chillblast card and maybe you want to get a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO instead? The AC Freezer even gets beaten by the CoolerMaster TX 3.

The Chillblast card comes with the horrible, little Nvidia stock cooler fan, that does'nt cool that well and sounds like an hair drier. You can forget any serious overclocking of this card too. Look at an Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte or even better an MSI GTX 760 card.

http://www.msi.com/product/vga/N760_TF_2GD5OC.html#hero-overview
 
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Your build looks fine, but the cpu cooler and case are slightly low end, and PSU too. Thumbs up for that mobo, i have it and i love it
 
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