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Radeon R9 390X 8GB or GeForce GTX 970 4GB

Look at the nzxt x61 all in one cooler. Much better performance than the corsair. Ultra silent and 6 year warrenty. Will keep a hot 4790k under control. Plus the cam software is pretty good now and can also support the Grid+ fan controller all in the same software. The best closed loop cooler on the market imo.

The 4790k is never going to be your bottle neck on a 390 or even two 390's its as good as the skylake within a small margin and mine overclocks yo 4.8 on 1.26v and can hit 5 for benching on 1.38 but in game performance is no different.

Apart from the changing the cooler its pretty spot on tbh. Any changes in the price bracket are going to be minimal.
 
Concrete said:
I'm not going to argue against the IPC difference. But the thing is, its very rare on modern games for a single cores performance to be the limiting factor at 1080p.

Thats only going to become less of an issue with DX12 coming in (very slowly admittedly).
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The frustrating thing the games that are most CPU intensive type of games such as mmos and RTS they don't use more than 2-4 threads/cores, this is why it would not be a good idea for anyone who enjoy those genres of games to go for the FX8 over i5.
 
Randall8686 said:
Look at the nzxt x61 all in one cooler. Much better performance than the corsair. Ultra silent and 6 year warrenty. Will keep a hot 4790k under control. Plus the cam software is pretty good now and can also support the Grid+ fan controller all in the same software. The best closed loop cooler on the market imo.

The 4790k is never going to be your bottle neck on a 390 or even two 390's its as good as the skylake within a small margin and mine overclocks yo 4.8 on 1.26v and can hit 5 for benching on 1.38 but in game performance is no different.

Apart from the changing the cooler its pretty spot on tbh. Any changes in the price bracket are going to be minimal.
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Ok I will definitely look to add that to the build instead of the corsair thank you, and yeah price wise it works out good.

Cheers for the help people think im pretty much there with my build :)
 
DECLAN0007 said:
Yeah I was surprised the price of the 390, I was expecting at least £330.

And yeah I was thinking about the future with regard to my CPU but I guess I could always upgrade to an i7 at some point when the i5 begins to struggle. The i5 fits well in my budget and will allow me to play all games that I got on Steam currently at max settings and smooth fps hopefully, as currently my PC is 7 years old and slowly deteriorating underneath my desk.

And crap yeah Ive just noticed the sockets with the CPU that they aint compatible with the Motherboard!!

I could either go with



The bundle provided by UTmaniac

ORRRRRR


Any views on getting on the i7 instead of the i5? I know it cost's £70 more but would allow me to keep the selected motherboard that I like. Or would it just be better to stick with the i5 and go with the bundle?!?
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I'm using a 4790k and it's an awesome cpu however I'd go with Skylake, Also remember that whatever way you go you must get the right ram, ddr3 with Z97 and ddr4 with Z170

In 3 to 4 years time the ddr3 ram will be useless where as the ddr4 will probably be re-usable with your next rig. So there's another reason why going Skylake now is better.
 
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Randall8686 said:
Just make sure it will fit your case as its a 280mm rad not 240mm most cases will take it fine but smaller ones might not.
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Ok will do, im sure my case is big enough but I will make sure before purchase.

nashathedog said:
I'm using a 4790k and it's an awesome cpu however I'd go with Skylake, Also remember that whatever way you go you must get the right ram, ddr3 with Z97 and ddr4 with Z170

In 3 to 4 years time the ddr3 ram will be useless where as the ddr4 will probably be re-usable with your next rig. So there's another reason why going Skylake now is better.
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And yeah definitely, great point. Thank you
 
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