Any Advice for my PC build?

[aventador7h]

my future PC build is as follows currently.... Any advice?

CPU cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120 mm PWM Fan

Case: NZXT Phantom 820

Power supply: M12II-850 Bronze (SS-850AM2 Active PFC F3) (found it for like 110 bucks)

CPU: Intel i7 4770k

Motherboard: ASUS Z97-PRO LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel

Graphics card: AMD Radeon R9 290

Ram: (x2 8gb) Corsair Vengeance 16gb DDR3 1600 MHz

Sound card: Diamond Xtreme Sound 5.1 XS51

Hard drive: Seagate Desktop 2TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6 GB with NCQ 64 MB Cache #.5 inch (ST2000DX001)

Optical drive: Asus Bluray
BW-12B1ST

Operating system: windows seven 64bit

[Azza ☠]

I personally would never bother with low-end to mid-range sound cards... sometimes even the build-in gaming motherboard sounds better.

If you want a sound card - audiophonic cinema surround quality...

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD
or
Asus Xonar Essence STX

Are the way to go. Else if you can't afford that, don't even bother. Because on top of those, you need some high-end box set (book shelf) speakers and sub-woofer. Consider your budget to be at least $1000+ for sound card + audio gear and set it up via optical digital. You are pretty much almost getting a Theatre System, but for the PC rather than TV.

Else ASUS ROG series, Gigabyte G1 Sniper series, etc - use an actual gaming motherboard and you get with that better quality sound cards and network built-in. You want an audio card build-in but in isolation from other components as not to cause interference - swappable DAC Amps are another option.

If you can't afford that, then consider no sound card and rather go MixAMP instead. For example, use Astro A40's MixAMP via USB and connect up the sounds through that. It will work like a high quality external sound card.

[zombie cat]

whats your budget?

Just cooked up something,

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VhgjRB

[aventador7h]

Azza ☠님이 먼저 게시:

I personally would never bother with low-end to mid-range sound cards... sometimes even the build-in gaming motherboard sounds better.

If you want a sound card - audiophonic cinema surround quality...

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD
or
Asus Xonar Essence STX

Are the way to go. Else if you can't afford that, don't even bother. Because on top of those, you need some high-end box set (book shelf) speakers and sub-woofer. Consider your budget to be at least $1000+ for sound card + audio gear and set it up via optical digital. You are pretty much almost getting a Theatre System, but for the PC rather than TV.

Else ASUS ROG series, Gigabyte G1 Sniper series, etc - use an actual gaming motherboard and you get with that better quality sound cards and network built-in. You want an audio card build-in but in isolation from other components as not to cause interference - swappable DAC Amps are another option.

If you can't afford that, then consider no sound card and rather go MixAMP instead. For example, use Astro A40's MixAMP via USB and connect up the sounds through that. It will work like a high quality external sound card.

Yah i just had that sound card lying around. i have really nice speakers se. Thanks!

[aventador7h]

Zombie Cat PC Master Race님이 먼저 게시:

whats your budget?

Just cooked up something,

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VhgjRB

my budget is somewhere less than three grand, preferably less than 2.3 grand

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/B26bRB

Price of NZXT Phantom 820 case is crazy, for that price you can get great Corsair 760T case and Corsair H110 CPU cooler that would allow bigger overclock then CM Hyper 212 EVO.
Instead of cheap sound card get quality Asus Maximus VII Hero motherboard with good onboard sound.
Latest Devil's Canyon i7-4790K.
Newer Corsair Vengeance Pro RAM, 1866 Mhz, CL9, 1.5V, it hits the sweet spot of Intel PC performance.
Better quality HDD plus 256 Gb SSD for OS and few select games.
That EVGA 850W PSU scored very highly on Jonnyguru review, great quality PSU and enables you to add second R9 290 if needed, price is not murder either for 850W fully modular Gold PSU.
Blu-ray burners are largely useless, you should watch Blu-ray movies on TV with regular player anyway and for data burning DVD burner is usually enough.

[aventador7h]

Rumpelcrutchskin님이 먼저 게시:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/B26bRB

Price of NZXT Phantom 820 case is crazy, for that price you can get great Corsair 760T case and Corsair H110 CPU cooler that would allow bigger overclock then CM Hyper 212 EVO.
Instead of cheap sound card get quality Asus Maximus VII Hero motherboard with good onboard sound.
Latest Devil's Canyon i7-4790K.
Newer Corsair Vengeance Pro RAM, 1866 Mhz, CL9, 1.5V, it hit's the sweet spot of Intel PC performance.
Better quality HDD plus 256 Gb SSD for OS and few select games.
That EVGA 850W PSU scored very highly on Jonnyguru review, great quality PSU and enables you to add second R9 290 if needed, price is not murder either for 850W fully modular Gold PSU.
Blu-ray burners are largely useless, you should watch Blu-ray movies on TV with regular player anyway and for data burning DVD burner is usually enough.

definately right about the Phanom 820. for sound i had that card lying around so if its worse than onboard ill just use onboard instead. i wont be adding another R9 290. i dont have a bluray player, this pc will use the tv as the monitor. Thanks for the advice!

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

aventador7h4님이 먼저 게시:

definately right about the Phanom 820. for sound i had that card lying around so if its worse than onboard ill just use onboard instead. i wont be adding another R9 290. i dont have a bluray player, this pc will use the tv as the monitor. Thanks for the advice!

If you dont want to add another R9 290 then this 750W version of same PSU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438017

[aventador7h]

Rumpelcrutchskin님이 먼저 게시:

aventador7h4님이 먼저 게시:

definately right about the Phanom 820. for sound i had that card lying around so if its worse than onboard ill just use onboard instead. i wont be adding another R9 290. i dont have a bluray player, this pc will use the tv as the monitor. Thanks for the advice!

If you dont want to add another R9 290 then this 750W version of same PSU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438017

would i need anything more than 750, taking all the other things into account?

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

aventador7h4님이 먼저 게시:

Rumpelcrutchskin님이 먼저 게시:

If you dont want to add another R9 290 then this 750W version of same PSU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438017

would i need anything more than 750, taking all the other things into account?

No, 750W is plenty with room to spare for one R9 290.

[aventador7h]

Rumpelcrutchskin님이 먼저 게시:

aventador7h4님이 먼저 게시:

would i need anything more than 750, taking all the other things into account?

No, 750W is plenty with room to spare for one R9 290.

ok thank you a billion! haha

[Enjoybeta]

it is a pretty cool pc,but get a SSD will make quite a lot progress

[a bwl o awesome]

As far as the whole sound card thing goes....unless you are using the front panel audio connections you are absolutley 100% going to get the same quality sound (if not better) from the on board sound that's built into that motherboard. As a matter of fact, the on board audio on that mobo is cabable of 7.1 where that rubbish card I'm pretty sure is only at 5.1 plus the onboard has better audio sample rates. Don't even waste the room/time/hassle putting in that crappy sound card.

[aventador7h]

Pharaoh님이 먼저 게시:

it is a pretty cool pc,but get a SSD will make quite a lot progress

yah ill probably add an ssd later on. thank you!

Ok! thanks! will do. ive been getting a lot of that abouat that sound card haha

a bwl o awesome님이 먼저 게시:

As far as the whole sound card thing goes....unless you are using the front panel audio connections you are absolutley 100% going to get the same quality sound (if not better) from the on board sound that's built into that motherboard. As a matter of fact, the on board audio on that mobo is cabable of 7.1 where that rubbish card I'm pretty sure is only at 5.1 plus the onboard has better audio sample rates. Don't even waste the room/time/hassle putting in that crappy sound card.

[xbox-pad]

not bad rig

[aventador7h]

Thanks!

爱党爱国님이 먼저 게시:

not bad rig