Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

I play on a laptop (lame i know) and im getting a quote to build a tower of awsomeness!

please review my quote – let me know if you think i should change anything

“Here is an initial quote for you:

Intel i7-4770K 3.5GHz Processor
LGA 1150 Z87 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Motherboard
GeForce GTX 760 2GB PCI Express 3.0 Video Card
Corsair 400R ATX Mid Tower Case
620W 80 Plus certified Power Supply
8GB (2 × 4GB) DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory
1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
SATA CD/DVD-RW optical drive: black

Parts: 1,306.69
Labor: 189.99 (assembly/testing/operating system installation)

Total: 1,496.68 (Mass tax not included)

Let me know how that looks and we can go from there. I wasn’t sure about peripherals such as keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc. so I left them out for now."

What yall think? should i do it? or maybe just get the parts myself and do it? not sure…

Also i link to some videos on how to build your own computer would be great!

If you can get an SSD as well. 250GB ones are quite cheap now, also maybe a larger case

Raynor.8914:

Hey all,

I play on a laptop (lame i know) and im getting a quote to build a tower of awsomeness!

please review my quote – let me know if you think i should change anything

“Here is an initial quote for you:

Intel i7-4770K 3.5GHz Processor
LGA 1150 Z87 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Motherboard
GeForce GTX 760 2GB PCI Express 3.0 Video Card
Corsair 400R ATX Mid Tower Case
620W 80 Plus certified Power Supply
8GB (2 × 4GB) DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory
1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
SATA CD/DVD-RW optical drive: black

Parts: 1,306.69
Labor: 189.99 (assembly/testing/operating system installation)

Total: 1,496.68 (Mass tax not included)

Let me know how that looks and we can go from there. I wasn’t sure about peripherals such as keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc. so I left them out for now."

What yall think? should i do it? or maybe just get the parts myself and do it? not sure…

Also i link to some videos on how to build your own computer would be great!

Wait until August, that’s when Devils Canyon is going to be released. Then the current Haswell K’s will drop in price.

Buy a Z97 Board(I am going to get the Z97-G45), the Z87 is not going to support Broadwell or Devils Canyon, but the Z97 will support Haswell, Devils Canyon, and Broadwell (lots of upgrade options).

I would drop the HDD in favor of a 240G SSD. If you need more space for data files (Music, Video, Documents) then use a HDD for that.

But the rest of the system looks good.

I suggest putting it together using pcpartspicker.com and then buying the parts online then building it yourself. Youll save a bundle doing that.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($328.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 × 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($56.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 760 4GB TWIN FROZR Video Card ($249.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 400R ATX Mid Tower Case ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($99.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Optical Drive: Asus BC-12B1ST/BLK/B/AS Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer ($57.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1173.87
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-19 19:04 EDT-0400)

That is a quick mockup, but even that saves some coin, includes quality brands, as well as a Bluray drive. You can add an SSD such as a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB or whatever one you’ve been looking at for another $100 and still be under the price of the parts they quoted you.

Z97 would not be a bad idea if you plan to upgrade the pc in a year or 2’s time. Just take my list as a quick example, you can change things around making it cheaper.

As above, i sugest u wait for the new CPU’s. BUT if u have to buy now then i would ask some important questions to whome ever ur buying from.

Specifics are important so..

WHAT motherboard exactly ? ( a good Asus, Gigabyte, or MSI board would be preferable)
WHAT GTX 760 exactly ? (hopefuly a Asus DCII, MSI Twin Frozer, Gigabyte Windforce, or EVGA ACX)
WHAT 620w PSU exactly ? (really important u get a good one like a corsair or seasonic unit)
WHAT RAM exactly ? (at 1600mhz u want atleast CL9, and physicaly its preferable to have some kind of heatsink, not some OEM crap. Corsair or G.Skill are good choices for example)
WHAT HDD exactly ?
Does it come with a aftermarket CPU cooler or is it coming with a stock intel one ?
The addition of a 128gb SSD (no smaller) would be good for your OS + main programs or games.

Larger retailers and very small shop front buisnesses purposley neglect to mention specifics so they can put in cheaper parts to increase profit margins.

Are you planning to overclock the CPU? If not, then you can save some money by going with a 4770 instead of a 4770k. The CPU’s are identical, the only difference is that the ‘k’ model has an unlocked multiplier for overclocking. If this isn’t important to you, you can shave off $40-$50 here with no performance loss.

As you can see, you’re being charged almost $200 just to put it together. If you’re not comfortable doing it yourself or don’t know anyone that can help you with it, then this might be money well spent. If however, you know how to do it and just want to save some time the $200 charge just to put it together is an unnecessary expense.

I went on Newegg.com and just quickly threw together a system with comparable stats and it comes out to just over $1k which is about 33% less then your quoted price. If you’re interested in seeing the parts I used, feel free to click any of the links:

CPU,Motherboard,Memory,Case,Power Supply,Video Card,,Hard Disk.

Again, this is just what I threw together in a couple minutes, you could modify any of these parts to fit your taste and still be well under the price you were quoted. I just did a quick look using major brands and products that I already know work well.

The advantages to the system you have quoted is that it’s the easiest way. Someone puts it together, tests everything, gets it up and running and just sends it to you. It also comes with the benefit of a warranty in case anything goes wrong (at least I assume it does.) The ‘do it yourself’ route, is a bit more work and the parts are all warrantied individually instead of all under one, meaning you could get a single bad part and have to ship it back and wait for replacement. In the end, it’s all about if you’re willing to do the work yourself or not. As an experienced builder, I put my system together in roughly an hour, it might take longer if you’re learning as you go but in my opinion it’s a much better way. It’s cheaper and I get the specific parts that I want in my system.

Darth Llama.9217:

Are you planning to overclock the CPU? If not, then you can save some money by going with a 4770 instead of a 4770k. The CPU’s are identical, the only difference is that the ‘k’ model has an unlocked multiplier for overclocking. If this isn’t important to you, you can shave off $40-$50 here with no performance loss.

No, get a k series, the difference between k and non k is $10 and has been for nearly 2 years, don’t be an idiot and screw yourself on resale value because you want to save $10 :/

sobe.4157:

Darth Llama.9217:

Are you planning to overclock the CPU? If not, then you can save some money by going with a 4770 instead of a 4770k. The CPU’s are identical, the only difference is that the ‘k’ model has an unlocked multiplier for overclocking. If this isn’t important to you, you can shave off $40-$50 here with no performance loss.

No, get a k series, the difference between k and non k is $10 and has been for nearly 2 years, don’t be an idiot and screw yourself on resale value because you want to save $10 :/

This!

Even a 2nd Gen i5/i7 K series still goes for upper 180-230’s, a that’s a 2nd Gen!

Just cause you get a K series does not mean you have to OverClock, just that the option is there.

Think of that $10-$15 extra as a insurance Policy, so that in 2-3 years from now you can sell that i7-4770K at 85-90% of its original value. That will severally cut down on future upgrade costs (Like about when Skylake is released, you may want to move from haswell as it will be 2.5 generations behind by then)

Broadwell is the same socket 1150 as haswell so hope there will be some support on current motherboards.

John.8507:

Broadwell is the same socket 1150 as haswell so hope there will be some support on current motherboards.

dont count on it. Broadwell is supposedly only going to support series 9 chipsets.

Haswell, and Haswell-refresh (4790, 4690) will support the 8 series

Devils canyon will only support 9 series too.

No point in buying a 8 series motherboard anymore. As it will lock you to haswell, when there are 2 additional upgrade paths coming (Haswell, Haswell-refresh, Devils Canyon, Broadwell), on the 9 series Chipset.

sobe.4157:

Darth Llama.9217:

Are you planning to overclock the CPU? If not, then you can save some money by going with a 4770 instead of a 4770k. The CPU’s are identical, the only difference is that the ‘k’ model has an unlocked multiplier for overclocking. If this isn’t important to you, you can shave off $40-$50 here with no performance loss.

No, get a k series, the difference between k and non k is $10 and has been for nearly 2 years, don’t be an idiot and screw yourself on resale value because you want to save $10 :/

If you can get the K model for $10 more then yes, it’s worth it. When I bought my 4770k the price difference was about $45. I bought the K because I overclocked mine, but if you have no plan to do that then the price difference is not worth it. Right now, Newegg has the K on sale so the price difference is negligible.

You’re right though, if the price difference is that low, absolutely get the k series. If you think you might use overclocking at any point, you’ll want to have an unlocked multiplier.