Is this case compatible with this build?

[chop stix]

Is this case compatible with this build?

https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product...forcer-Mid-Tower-True-Gaming-Chassis/19874080



Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-UD5H LGA 1150 Intel Z97 @ $189.99

Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K Haswell 3.4GHz LGA 1150 @ $239.99

Video Card: EVGA SuperClocked 02G-P4-2765-KR GeForce GTX 760 2GB @ $259.99

Memory: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1600 @ $89.99

Power Supply: XFX Core Edition PRO650W @ $89.99

DVD ROM Drive: ASUS 24X DVD Burner @ $19.99

Hard Drive: Western Digital Blue 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB @ $58.99


Case: https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product...forcer-Mid-Tower-True-Gaming-Chassis/19874080

 

[SASRT8]

As long as the motherboard is ATX or smaller (which yours is an ATX board), then you will have no issues. EATX boards will not work with that case.

I see no concerns with your build whatsoever, other than I would NOT buy a gtx 760. at this point, it's better to build this PC without a GPU and wait just a month. You'll thank me.

 

[chop stix]

As long as the motherboard is ATX or smaller (which yours is an ATX board), then you will have no issues. EATX boards will not work with that case.

I see no concerns with your build whatsoever, other than I would NOT buy a gtx 760. at this point, it's better to build this PC without a GPU and wait just a month. You'll thank me.

I'm going to have to wait a month regardless lol. The way I'm getting the money for it takes time. I will start by buying the case and then buying the parts that are on sale. Then after approx 3 weeks or so what should I do?will there be new gpus or should I just buy the current gpu, will the price decrease ?

 

[SASRT8]

there will be an assortment of newer, vastly more powerful cards coming out, and with the price you're willing to spend on that 760, you will be able to get a very powerful card.
With the remaining Nvidia GM204 Maxwell cards coming out and the new AMD Rx 3xx cards coming out very very very soon.. its senseless to buy anything from that old GTX 7xx generation of GPU's.

If you're building it like you said (very good plan btw) just save the GPU for last.
and my recommendation, when the next-gen AMD cards come out...give them a good hard look. I personally am heavily contemplating selling my GTX 980 in anticipation of the new 390x. Supposed to be VASTLY more powerful...for what is expected to be the same price.

 

[chop stix]

there will be an assortment of newer, vastly more powerful cards coming out, and with the price you're willing to spend on that 760, you will be able to get a very powerful card.
With the remaining Nvidia GM204 Maxwell cards coming out and the new AMD Rx 3xx cards coming out very very very soon.. its senseless to buy anything from that old GTX 7xx generation of GPU's.

If you're building it like you said (very good plan btw) just save the GPU for last.
and my recommendation, when the next-gen AMD cards come out...give them a good hard look. I personally am heavily contemplating selling my GTX 980 in anticipation of the new 390x. Supposed to be VASTLY more powerful...for what is expected to be the same price.

Alrighty then. whats the release date of the cards? I can wait if I am saving money and buying more powerful stuff. So everything else is fine? No need to fiddle with the build? Buy as it is and purchase the card last. (diff newer card)

 

[SASRT8]

I believe you have a very solid build there. I might suggest a few things, such as going with a fully modular power supply perhaps. they're much nicer to deal with for cable management as well as looking nicer. It's not required tho by any means, it is only beneficial for simplicity's sake. The XFX power supplies are incredibly well made though, and put out very stable power. I run the xfx pro series myself.

Another thing, while completely unnecessary, is to consider a SSD for your OS. Nothing more than about 120gb is needed, simply for your OS and key programs you may use. This will speed your computer up TREMENDOUSLY. Again, you can always add this later and clone your OS over to the new drive. Certainly worth it if the extra change is available to spend.

My final suggestion is that you might upgrade that processor to the haswell refresh chip(4690k), which is the exact same CPU just with a higher base clock/turbo clock. Physically no difference otherwise. In most markets they are almost the exact same price, maybe 10 dollars difference. If it's a big difference for you, then you can overclock the 4670k to the exact same frequencies if you'd like. ON THE FLIP SIDE THOUGH, The pre-haswell refresh chips(i5 4670k and i7 4770k) can generally handle more voltage than the refreshed counterparts (4690k/4790k) so in the long run are generally capable of higher overclocks in my experience if you de-lid them and apply new thermal paste on the bare die to keep temps in check.

The new graphics cards are expected in early Q1 2015, which to me says January or February. The 960 will be released in your price point, most likely. The craziest thing is that the r9 380x has had leaked benchmarks, showing it to outpace the GTX 980 in benchmarks. The sad part of this is, the 380x isn't expected to be AMD's flagship card...the 390x is. I'm curious to see just how potent the 390x will be, at what will likely be the same price as the GTX 980.

The upcoming AMD cards use a proprietary and protected form of GPU memory called HBM. They own rights to its usage for the next few years exclusively. HBM is 9x faster than the current GDDR5 memory used by Nvidia and AMD in the current and previous generations of cards. I'm generally an NVidia guy myself, for no particular reason, but I will be making the change to AMD this generation.

 

[n4n0]

I believe you have a very solid build there. I might suggest a few things, such as going with a fully modular power supply perhaps. they're much nicer to deal with for cable management as well as looking nicer. It's not required tho by any means, it is only beneficial for simplicity's sake. The XFX power supplies are incredibly well made though, and put out very stable power. I run the xfx pro series myself.

Another thing, while completely unnecessary, is to consider a SSD for your OS. Nothing more than about 120gb is needed, simply for your OS and key programs you may use. This will speed your computer up TREMENDOUSLY. Again, you can always add this later and clone your OS over to the new drive. Certainly worth it if the extra change is available to spend.

My final suggestion is that you might upgrade that processor to the haswell refresh chip(4690k), which is the exact same CPU just with a higher base clock/turbo clock. Physically no difference otherwise. In most markets they are almost the exact same price, maybe 10 dollars difference. If it's a big difference for you, then you can overclock the 4670k to the exact same frequencies if you'd like. ON THE FLIP SIDE THOUGH, The pre-haswell refresh chips(i5 4670k and i7 4770k) can generally handle more voltage than the refreshed counterparts (4690k/4790k) so in the long run are generally capable of higher overclocks in my experience if you de-lid them and apply new thermal paste on the bare die to keep temps in check.

The new graphics cards are expected in early Q1 2015, which to me says January or February. The 960 will be released in your price point, most likely. The craziest thing is that the r9 380x has had leaked benchmarks, showing it to outpace the GTX 980 in benchmarks. The sad part of this is, the 380x isn't expected to be AMD's flagship card...the 390x is. I'm curious to see just how potent the 390x will be, at what will likely be the same price as the GTX 980.

The upcoming AMD cards use a proprietary and protected form of GPU memory called HBM. They own rights to its usage for the next few years exclusively. HBM is 9x faster than the current GDDR5 memory used by Nvidia and AMD in the current and previous generations of cards. I'm generally an NVidia guy myself, for no particular reason, but I will be making the change to AMD this generation.

This man knows his shit.

What's your occupation, if you don't mind me asking? You work in the IT field, or is it just a hobby?

 

[chop stix]

I believe you have a very solid build there. I might suggest a few things, such as going with a fully modular power supply perhaps. they're much nicer to deal with for cable management as well as looking nicer. It's not required tho by any means, it is only beneficial for simplicity's sake. The XFX power supplies are incredibly well made though, and put out very stable power. I run the xfx pro series myself.

Another thing, while completely unnecessary, is to consider a SSD for your OS. Nothing more than about 120gb is needed, simply for your OS and key programs you may use. This will speed your computer up TREMENDOUSLY. Again, you can always add this later and clone your OS over to the new drive. Certainly worth it if the extra change is available to spend.

My final suggestion is that you might upgrade that processor to the haswell refresh chip(4690k), which is the exact same CPU just with a higher base clock/turbo clock. Physically no difference otherwise. In most markets they are almost the exact same price, maybe 10 dollars difference. If it's a big difference for you, then you can overclock the 4670k to the exact same frequencies if you'd like. ON THE FLIP SIDE THOUGH, The pre-haswell refresh chips(i5 4670k and i7 4770k) can generally handle more voltage than the refreshed counterparts (4690k/4790k) so in the long run are generally capable of higher overclocks in my experience if you de-lid them and apply new thermal paste on the bare die to keep temps in check.

The new graphics cards are expected in early Q1 2015, which to me says January or February. The 960 will be released in your price point, most likely. The craziest thing is that the r9 380x has had leaked benchmarks, showing it to outpace the GTX 980 in benchmarks. The sad part of this is, the 380x isn't expected to be AMD's flagship card...the 390x is. I'm curious to see just how potent the 390x will be, at what will likely be the same price as the GTX 980.

The upcoming AMD cards use a proprietary and protected form of GPU memory called HBM. They own rights to its usage for the next few years exclusively. HBM is 9x faster than the current GDDR5 memory used by Nvidia and AMD in the current and previous generations of cards. I'm generally an NVidia guy myself, for no particular reason, but I will be making the change to AMD this generation.

Can I hire you as my tech man? lol

That knowledge blows up my gainz anyday

 

[chop stix]

I believe you have a very solid build there. I might suggest a few things, such as going with a fully modular power supply perhaps. they're much nicer to deal with for cable management as well as looking nicer. It's not required tho by any means, it is only beneficial for simplicity's sake. The XFX power supplies are incredibly well made though, and put out very stable power. I run the xfx pro series myself.

Another thing, while completely unnecessary, is to consider a SSD for your OS. Nothing more than about 120gb is needed, simply for your OS and key programs you may use. This will speed your computer up TREMENDOUSLY. Again, you can always add this later and clone your OS over to the new drive. Certainly worth it if the extra change is available to spend.

My final suggestion is that you might upgrade that processor to the haswell refresh chip(4690k), which is the exact same CPU just with a higher base clock/turbo clock. Physically no difference otherwise. In most markets they are almost the exact same price, maybe 10 dollars difference. If it's a big difference for you, then you can overclock the 4670k to the exact same frequencies if you'd like. ON THE FLIP SIDE THOUGH, The pre-haswell refresh chips(i5 4670k and i7 4770k) can generally handle more voltage than the refreshed counterparts (4690k/4790k) so in the long run are generally capable of higher overclocks in my experience if you de-lid them and apply new thermal paste on the bare die to keep temps in check.

The new graphics cards are expected in early Q1 2015, which to me says January or February. The 960 will be released in your price point, most likely. The craziest thing is that the r9 380x has had leaked benchmarks, showing it to outpace the GTX 980 in benchmarks. The sad part of this is, the 380x isn't expected to be AMD's flagship card...the 390x is. I'm curious to see just how potent the 390x will be, at what will likely be the same price as the GTX 980.

The upcoming AMD cards use a proprietary and protected form of GPU memory called HBM. They own rights to its usage for the next few years exclusively. HBM is 9x faster than the current GDDR5 memory used by Nvidia and AMD in the current and previous generations of cards. I'm generally an NVidia guy myself, for no particular reason, but I will be making the change to AMD this generation.

Could you give me links into what you suggest? ALl I can read is all this info yet I have no idea what you're saying sorry . I'm really bad with pc parts and stuff, real good with pcs, such as "hacking", coding, Tech etc...

 

[SASRT8]

Haha, thanks man. I actually am a global oil & gas drilling consultant. I travel around the world using my knowledge and drilling experience to ensure that wells get drilled to the exact standards, specifications, and procedures that are outlined by the drilling engineers, no matter the problems that may arise. I am paid year-round, although I do not work but every other month or so...so I have a lot of free time on my hands.
I do also have a lot of field experience with fiber-optic variable-frequency-drive drilling rigs, which are entirely computerized and very intricate... But this equipment is no longer a primary part of my job so much as the drilling operations itself. Probably not the response you expected, but it's what I do.

My knowledge in computers has spawned from a hobby, in which I started repairing computers for friends as well as helping build them. Now I privately build them in my spare time for people, as well as continue to help repair problems with people's PCs. I also repair laptops, as well as upgrade particular models that can be upgraded(these are fun to work on) I enjoy taking PC parts apart and learning about them and how they work, as well as pushing hardware to do things it otherwise shouldn't. I keep myself very actively involved in the computer world....advancements in technology is our future. I am always tinkering and pushing myself to learn anything and everything I can about it. I guess you could say my main hobby is education. I take pride in knowing everything I can about things I am passionate about or interested in.

My educational hobby has pushed me to some strange things with my free time..I am certified in advanced firefighting with live fire experience, I am a Ford-authorized diesel mechanic, I'm ASE gold-certified in automotive paint, body and frame repair, I have some personal experience rebuilding and modifying pushrod and OHC gas engines, I'm an advanced skydiver with quite a few jumps under my belt now....I could go on. I like to learn strange, sometimes useful things to occupy myself with my time at home.



anyways, on topic, the links to what I suggest involve pretty easy information to find. A modular power supply is no different from your power supply other than the cables are all removable, so you don't have a bunch of extra unused cables to hide.

the SSD is a solid state drive. Versus a HDD, Instead of using rotating internal platters and movable arms to read the data(think of a high tech record player with much faster speeds and durability + read/write ability) it loads the information into onboard memory chips that are managed by their own controller which includes its own tiny cpu. Because there are no moving parts(and for other more technical reasons), it generally has transfer speeds up to 5 times faster than a regular 7200rpm hard drive and access speeds that can be dozens of times faster than HDD's. They can easily be found on nearly any electronics parts websites such as newegg or amazon.You can install an SSD in an old and weak computer, and it will run like a whole new animal.


as for the technical bits about the GPU's, don't worry about that. what it means in shortened terms is...the new AMD GPUS are going to be FAST. while the current NVidia cards are and will remain to be very fast for some time, the AMD's will just have the possible capability of being faster for a while unless NV comes up with something better.

if you want me to explain in detail about the HBM vs how current GPU memory works though(and how it benefits you the consumer), I don't mind.

 

[chop stix]

Yea but ssd's are expensive... Would it work if I bought a ssd put win7 on it. Then buy a hard and put all my games there, would it be faster?


The info you've given me is solid, if you want to explain to me I don't mind either. xD

 

[SuF]

Yea but ssd's are expensive... Would it work if I bought a ssd put win7 on it. Then buy a hard and put all my games there, would it be faster?


The info you've given me is solid, if you want to explain to me I don't mind either. xD

Yes but SSDs are not all that expensive anymore, unless you need like a 1TB one.

 

[n4n0]

Yea but ssd's are expensive... Would it work if I bought a ssd put win7 on it. Then buy a hard and put all my games there, would it be faster?


The info you've given me is solid, if you want to explain to me I don't mind either. xD

Cost of SSD's has plumetted. You can get a 250GB SSD for ~110 these days. WORTH EVERY PENNY

 

[SASRT8]

Yes you can, that's generally the preferred way to use an ssd. Just a small one is all you need. Remember, its just a suggestion and not needed. If you don't have one, you wont know what you are missing. But Once you buy one and use it, you'll have spoiled yourself and wont ever be able to go without one again.

 

[chop stix]

Alrighty, Well Im going to wait for boxing day to buy everything I need other than the GPU I should save like $300, whats so good about ssds? I've seen reviews... Apparently it only boots up the OS system start up speed by like 10 seconds faster than hdd?

 

[Heeatz]

Cost of SSD's has plumetted. You can get a 250GB SSD for ~110 these days. WORTH EVERY PENNY

If hes only putting windows onto his SSD he only needs a 120gb, even cheaper. I got one for £50 with my build

 

[chop stix]

I've got all my links preloaded, waiting for boxing day. Auto buying all my pc parts, Is it possible to run the pc without the gpu? or no?

 

[SASRT8]

Yes, the haswell LGA 1150 CPU's(such as your OP-mentioned CPU) all have integrated GPU's on the die itself. You will simply just plug your monitor/TV directly into the HDMI/DVI/DisplayPort socket on the motherboard and it will automatically recognize it.

As for your question earlier about SSD's, it goes much further than simply booting your OS. Your entire system will also cache to the SSD, which makes the overall experience much faster. Internet browsers will cache pre-loaded images and other commonly-accessed information to your SSD, and thus these things will load much more rapidly. Ex: if you commonly visit this site, most of the images are cached somewhere on your disk drive with an "access code" attached(to put it in layman's terms). When that "code" is summoned, it will load that image off your drive instead of downloading it from the internet. The faster the drive, the faster the experience will be. this will also apply to windows' own internal Caching/prefetch system for files of various sorts.

Some people who have very large amounts of RAM will set up temporary RAMdisks for this same purpose, which is pretty extreme. I have experimented with this several times with great success. While HDD's transfer avg 100-150 MB/s, SSD avg 500-550MB/S, Ramdisks can average 6000-10,000 MB/S...making the speeds of regular tasks incredible. BUT, ram cannot store any data without power, so when you shut the PC down everything on the RAMdisk is lost.

the point of this, is when you discover the speed of these newer devices..the need for speed becomes a strong urge!