I Need Advice About A New Build, Cheap Cpu & Expensive Gpu Or Vice-versa?

Discussion in 'New Build / Upgrade Advice' started by ezpac, Jan 28, 2015.

  1. ezpac

    ezpac Geek Trainee

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    Hello everyone!

    I’m building a gaming PC mainly for WoW. The goal is to play WoW in 4k spending as little as I can but leaving room for upgrade. In the future I intend to add a second video card (SLI), add some memory and another SSD (RAID 0).

    Here’s my shopping cart (newegg) so far:

    MOBO - $90 - MSI Z87M GAMING LGA 1150 Intel Z87
    PSU - $60 - Thermaltake SMART Series SP-550PCBUS 550W ATX 12V 2.3 SLI Ready 80 PLUS
    RAM - $70 - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3DDR3 1600 Model F3-12800CL9D8GBRL
    Case - $90 - Deepcool Steam Castle Micro ATX / Mini-ITX
    HD - $85 - SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 120GB SATA III TLC SSD
    CPU - $70 - Intel Pentium G3258 Haswell Dual-Core 3.2GHz LGA 1150 53W BX80646G3258
    GPU - $330 - MSI GTX 970 4GD5T OC 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 SLI Support G-SYNC Support


    My question is:

    Will the “cheap” processor bottle neck the “expensive” video card?
    Would I be better off subtracting $100 from the GPU getting the GTX 960, and adding $100 to the CPU getting an i5-4460 for example?

    What do you guys think?

    Thanks in advance,

    Eric
     
  2. Wicked Mystic

    Wicked Mystic Big Geek

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    WOW is technically totally obsolete so I see no reason to invest on quad core. SLI and Crossfire setups always have more problems than single GPU configurations.

    Samsung Evo SSD has proven to be broken design, avoid at all costs.

    Also GeForce GTX970 may face recalls because Nvidia lied about specs and also memory is bit broken.

    So basically that is OK build for WOW. Just replace 840 EVO and consider graphics. GTX960 is overpriced against Radeon R9 280 and GTX970 have problems.
     
  3. Lamo

    Lamo Geek Trainee

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    Intel Pentium will make almost any graphics card bottlenecked. You really should buy worse graphics and better CPU.
     

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