PCPartPicker Anyone ever use them.?

[💎 Andy 💎]

Hi.

Building a new PC, and was going to use Amazon. As I am in the UK.

I looked at Newegg, and the feedback they get on Trust-pilot is shocking. Also they are in CA 6k miles away from me.

Does anyone have any experience of PC Parts-picker please? are they safe, and legit.

Thanks for any feedback.

Andy.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

It's safe and legit if thats your main question. Regulars here use mainly that to (virtually) assemble computers.

[Lord Ptolemy]

To put it simply:
PcPartPicker is love
PcPartPicker is life

Yes it is safe and many use it (including me).

Also I prefer newegg for my parts, but PcPartPicker will tell you where you can get each part the cheapest.

[💎 Andy 💎]

Astraea Kisaragi の投稿を引用：

It's safe and legit if thats your main question. Regulars here use mainly that to (virtually) assemble computers.

HI and thank you for the reply. when you say "regulars here use mainly that to assemble computers" Do you even buy off them as well?

Are the reliable, and trustworthy as merchants, (as well as having a great part picking thingy ☺

Thanks again for the brilliant feedback.

They are a lot cheaper than Amazon.

[rotNdude]

Don't use newegg if you're in the UK. Use the UK site for part picker

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/

It should link you to reputable sites in the UK where you can buy the parts.

[💎 Andy 💎]

| BP | Lord Ptolemy の投稿を引用：

To put it simply:
PcPartPicker is love
PcPartPicker is life

Yes it is safe and many use it (including me).

Also I prefer newegg for my parts, but PcPartPicker will tell you where you can get each part the cheapest.

Oh .. I thought the parts were bought directly off part-picker, that's why I wanted to know if they were safe to buy off. <- very new to building PCs. lol does it show. ;)

Oh man <- sheepish grin.

I hadn't pressed the "buy" button yet, and just thought it would sell the lot from PP site, like amazon, or Newegg. well you learn something new every day. lots in my case.. ☺

Thanks guys VERY Helpful.

[Lord Ptolemy]

Andy の投稿を引用：

Oh man <- sheepish grin.

I hadn't pressed the "buy" button yet, and just thought it would sell the lot from PP site, like amazon, or Newegg. well you learn something new every day. lots in my case.. ☺

Thanks guys VERY Helpful.

If you want help selecting parts and or building it

overclock.net and tomshardware.com are very good places to ask. You can also ask here and people will do their best to help.

[💎 Andy 💎]

| BP | Lord Ptolemy の投稿を引用：

Andy の投稿を引用：

Oh man <- sheepish grin.

I hadn't pressed the "buy" button yet, and just thought it would sell the lot from PP site, like amazon, or Newegg. well you learn something new every day. lots in my case.. ☺

Thanks guys VERY Helpful.

If you want help selecting parts and or building it

overclock.net and tomshardware.com are very good places to ask. You can also ask here and people will do their best to help.

TYVM ☺ I just signed up to Toms Hardwares and asked a question and had some amazing replys.

Really appreciate your help.

[Kate]

It's a great website. Even if you plan on buying from physical stores, and some countries have no big online retailers to use, it's smart to use PC Part Picker to look for incompatibilities (wrong socket, insufficient power supply, GPU won't fit the case, etc).

[💎 Andy 💎]

I totally agree. it has blown me away. I have spent some hours going through, what I want.
For a noob like what I iz.
Even I have been able, to spec a new rig,


Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler

Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

Kingston Savage 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory

Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive

MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (2-Way SLI)

MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (2-Way SLI)

Fractal Design Define R5 (Titanium) ATX Mid Tower Case

Corsair RM 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Pioneer BDC-207DBK Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 OEM (64-bit)


And know it all works. Just need to add (what case fans I might need) and bobs-your-uncle.

It may not be the most powerful in the world. But It will be a LOT fatster than what I have now.

But I luv my little asus g73jh we have been through a lot together. *pats Lappy*

☺

[Lord Ptolemy]

Andy の投稿を引用：

MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (2-Way SLI)

MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (2-Way SLI)

Makes me jealous. I have a 780 3gb. Still plays everything with max graphics though ^_^

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Andy の投稿を引用：

I totally agree. it has blown me away. I have spent some hours going through, what I want.
For a noob like what I iz.
Even I have been able, to spec a new rig,


Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler

Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

Kingston Savage 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory

Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive

MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (2-Way SLI)

MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (2-Way SLI)

Fractal Design Define R5 (Titanium) ATX Mid Tower Case

Corsair RM 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Pioneer BDC-207DBK Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 OEM (64-bit)


And know it all works. Just need to add (what case fans I might need) and bobs-your-uncle.

It may not be the most powerful in the world. But It will be a LOT fatster than what I have now.

But I luv my little asus g73jh we have been through a lot together. *pats Lappy*

☺

I would use single GTX 980 Ti instead and add 250 Gb SSD.
It doesnt have GTX 970 VRAM issue and with 6 Gb VRAM it's more future proof plus if you add second one in future it will be much better for 4K monitor then SLI GTX 970, one GTX 980 Ti is plenty for 1080p-1440p monitor.
Hybrid drive is never as fast as SSD+HDD.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/jXLGzy

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If u need that much power, avoid doing SLI w/ 970
Get a 980 Ti instead

[Rove]

PC Part Picker only links to retailers. As far as I know they are all safe. However the level of safety and customer service will be individual to each retailer.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It's a just a database search really is all. You don't buy from them.
But it makes sorting out your new build quite a bit more easy for folks.

However, always check your favorite retailers search engine as well. For example PCPartPicker can't seem to find the WD Blue 1TB 3.5" model that I see on Newegg for around $47.99

[Rove]

Andy の投稿を引用：

I totally agree. it has blown me away. I have spent some hours going through, what I want.
For a noob like what I iz.
Even I have been able, to spec a new rig,


Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler

Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

Kingston Savage 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory

Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive

MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (2-Way SLI)

MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (2-Way SLI)

Fractal Design Define R5 (Titanium) ATX Mid Tower Case

Corsair RM 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Pioneer BDC-207DBK Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 OEM (64-bit)


And know it all works. Just need to add (what case fans I might need) and bobs-your-uncle.

It may not be the most powerful in the world. But It will be a LOT fatster than what I have now.

But I luv my little asus g73jh we have been through a lot together. *pats Lappy*

☺

Here's my edit of your build:

Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Kingston Savage 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory
Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive
XFX Radeon R9 295X2 8GB Core Edition Video Card
Zalman Z3 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case
EVGA 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Pioneer BDR-209DBK Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer
Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit)
Arctic Cooling Arctic F12 PWM CO 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/ssKwf7
Total: £1316.81

Here's what I'd recommend getting instead:

AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
Kingston Savage 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory
Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
XFX Radeon R9 295X2 8GB Core Edition Video Card
Zalman Z3 Plus White ATX Mid Tower Case
EVGA 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Pioneer BDR-209DBK Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer
Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit)
Arctic Cooling Arctic F12 PWM CO 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Qkfwf7
Total: £1309.95

I use a FX 8350 CPU myself. It works good. Since it's cheaper than a Intel i7, but comes without integrated graphics, you have some money left over to get a SSD and larger HDD. I think that's important as the 2TB SSHD is a bit of a misfit in your first build and you could use both a larger faster SSD and a larger HDD instead when you are spending this much money and buying such high performance parts for everything else. The 2TB SSHD probably more properly belongs in a lower budget build. This fixes that.

Here's another option also:

Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor
Scythe Ashura 97.2 CFM CPU Cooler
ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
PowerColor Radeon R9 290X 4GB PCS+ Video Card
Zalman Z3 Plus White ATX Mid Tower Case
EVGA 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Pioneer BDR-209DBK Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer
Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit)
Arctic Cooling Arctic F12 PWM CO 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/8FZpYJ
Total: £1313.25

You can add a second R9 290X to this build later or replace it with a Radeon R9 Fury X2 when that comes out or another better card. Since graphics cards are fairly easy to replace (though they are expensive) this is probably a good build for future upgrade plans and longevity. It's the first consumer CPU and motherboard platform to use the new DDR4 RAM and it's got all the other newest technologies also and room for upto 8 RAM sticks.