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me and my dad want to build a good Gaming PC that will run GTA 4 and 5 on DECENT settings. I went to www.pcpartpicker.com and build a PC that i like.*NOTE* That is not the card i'm going to use. i well be useing a Nivdia Geforce GTX 780TI. would i be able to Run GTA 4 and 5 at medium to high settings?

 

 Thanks Dakota

Yes that is more than enough to play GTA IV and probably V on high settings. Only suggestions I have for you is to try and get 2 8GB sticks of RAM instead of 4. Also you might want to double check that 550W is enough for all of that, it might be cutting it close. I would recommend for a gaming PC to get at least a 700W-800W power supply. I run a 1000W power supply on mine.

Thanks

I'll just add a few things.

 

The build as is will most definitely run most things on high settings for years to come.

 

Before reading, I'd just like to point out that pretty much everything here is really minor, small issues that I'd personally change. The build as is would be extremely effective and not requiring tweaking. With that said, here are my suggestions. 

• I never was a fan of 120MM fan rads, I'd go with a Corsair H100i 240MM rad. For just a little more, it's a dual rad and in my opinion, more sufficient at cooling, especially if you're going to overclock. If you're not going to overclock, probably not too necessary. Your processor choice isn't even capable of overclocking anyways. 
• I'd recommend a Corsair 750W PSU for that build, especially if you consider perhaps doing SLI in the future. 550W may work for the system, but PSUs work better if they're not straining at 100% all the time.
• You mentioned you were going to get a GTX 780TI, just make sure it's a 4GB model. Newer games are increasingly utilizing higher textures, and especially with 4K gaming right around the corner, 4GB will become the new standard. 
• I'd personally buy a GTX 970, because it performs pretty much at the same speed as the GTX 780TI, but significantly cheaper. However, with the whole controversy out, that's up to you. 
• Cost Effectiveness Note: Great motherboard and all, but honestly, motherboards don't help to improve performance at all and that price is pretty much double what I'd pay. (Unless of course you get some $20 one). Those motherboards are loaded with so many extra features, that the basic gamer simply isn't going to touch. However, if you're a PC Enthusiast like me perhaps it may be worth your buck. 
• Upgrade Compatibility Note: With Haswell out and Broadwell to be out by in 2ND QTR 2015, you opted for a Ivy Bridge CPU, a little outdated, but not in performance. The CPU Choice is good as is, but perhaps I'd recommend a Haswell i7 (Requires LGA 1150 Motherboard, Z97 Chipset). In the future if you wished to upgrade, you'd only be able to upgrade to one generation beyond Haswell, which would be Broadwell since Skylake, coming out after Broadwell most likely will not use the LGA 1150 Socket. 
• Intel 530 SSD is an incredibly fast, rugged SSD, however with more emphasis on rugged than fast. There are SSDs on the market, such as the Samsung 850 PRO and probably the 850 EVO that are faster. Intel, as usual, places most of the value in their products in the reliability factors, which I applaud greatly. Honestly, both SSDs would be fast, but technically there are faster ones, but what you'd see is so minuscule, and I think Intel deserves something for the technology they do. 
• I think that WDD Green drives are gross, for mass storage you'd benefit from a WDD Black 1TB just because of the speed difference. However, speed and HDD are pretty much oxymoron, so pick your poison when it comes to HDDs. 

Overall, great build, and good luck. 

Yeah you'll be running games at ultra settings for a while. Honestly, if you're looking to only run things at "decent" settings you could end up spending like $800. 

 

Also, get a cheaper motherboard. Honestly, you should be spending max $150. 

I'll just add a few things.

 

The build as is will most definitely run most things on high settings for years to come.

 

Before reading, I'd just like to point out that pretty much everything here is really minor, small issues that I'd personally change. The build as is would be extremely effective and not requiring tweaking. With that said, here are my suggestions. 

• I never was a fan of 120MM fan rads, I'd go with a Corsair H100i 240MM rad. For just a little more, it's a dual rad and in my opinion, more sufficient at cooling, especially if you're going to overclock. If you're not going to overclock, probably not too necessary. Your processor choice isn't even capable of overclocking anyways. 
• I'd recommend a Corsair 750W PSU for that build, especially if you consider perhaps doing SLI in the future. 550W may work for the system, but PSUs work better if they're not straining at 100% all the time.
• You mentioned you were going to get a GTX 780TI, just make sure it's a 4GB model. Newer games are increasingly utilizing higher textures, and especially with 4K gaming right around the corner, 4GB will become the new standard. 
• I'd personally buy a GTX 970, because it performs pretty much at the same speed as the GTX 780TI, but significantly cheaper. However, with the whole controversy out, that's up to you. 
• Cost Effectiveness Note: Great motherboard and all, but honestly, motherboards don't help to improve performance at all and that price is pretty much double what I'd pay. (Unless of course you get some $20 one). Those motherboards are loaded with so many extra features, that the basic gamer simply isn't going to touch. However, if you're a PC Enthusiast like me perhaps it may be worth your buck. 
• Upgrade Compatibility Note: With Haswell out and Broadwell to be out by in 2ND QTR 2015, you opted for a Ivy Bridge CPU, a little outdated, but not in performance. The CPU Choice is good as is, but perhaps I'd recommend a Haswell i7 (Requires LGA 1150 Motherboard, Z97 Chipset). In the future if you wished to upgrade, you'd only be able to upgrade to one generation beyond Haswell, which would be Broadwell since Skylake, coming out after Broadwell most likely will not use the LGA 1150 Socket. 
• Intel 530 SSD is an incredibly fast, rugged SSD, however with more emphasis on rugged than fast. There are SSDs on the market, such as the Samsung 850 PRO and probably the 850 EVO that are faster. Intel, as usual, places most of the value in their products in the reliability factors, which I applaud greatly. Honestly, both SSDs would be fast, but technically there are faster ones, but what you'd see is so minuscule, and I think Intel deserves something for the technology they do. 
• I think that WDD Green drives are gross, for mass storage you'd benefit from a WDD Black 1TB just because of the speed difference. However, speed and HDD are pretty much oxymoron, so pick your poison when it comes to HDDs. 

Overall, great build, and good luck. 

 

Everything he said too.

I'll just add a few things.

 

The build as is will most definitely run most things on high settings for years to come.

 

Before reading, I'd just like to point out that pretty much everything here is really minor, small issues that I'd personally change. The build as is would be extremely effective and not requiring tweaking. With that said, here are my suggestions. 

• I never was a fan of 120MM fan rads, I'd go with a Corsair H100i 240MM rad. For just a little more, it's a dual rad and in my opinion, more sufficient at cooling, especially if you're going to overclock. If you're not going to overclock, probably not too necessary. Your processor choice isn't even capable of overclocking anyways. 
• I'd recommend a Corsair 750W PSU for that build, especially if you consider perhaps doing SLI in the future. 550W may work for the system, but PSUs work better if they're not straining at 100% all the time.
• You mentioned you were going to get a GTX 780TI, just make sure it's a 4GB model. Newer games are increasingly utilizing higher textures, and especially with 4K gaming right around the corner, 4GB will become the new standard. 
• I'd personally buy a GTX 970, because it performs pretty much at the same speed as the GTX 780TI, but significantly cheaper. However, with the whole controversy out, that's up to you. 
• Cost Effectiveness Note: Great motherboard and all, but honestly, motherboards don't help to improve performance at all and that price is pretty much double what I'd pay. (Unless of course you get some $20 one). Those motherboards are loaded with so many extra features, that the basic gamer simply isn't going to touch. However, if you're a PC Enthusiast like me perhaps it may be worth your buck. 
• Upgrade Compatibility Note: With Haswell out and Broadwell to be out by in 2ND QTR 2015, you opted for a Ivy Bridge CPU, a little outdated, but not in performance. The CPU Choice is good as is, but perhaps I'd recommend a Haswell i7 (Requires LGA 1150 Motherboard, Z97 Chipset). In the future if you wished to upgrade, you'd only be able to upgrade to one generation beyond Haswell, which would be Broadwell since Skylake, coming out after Broadwell most likely will not use the LGA 1150 Socket. 
• Intel 530 SSD is an incredibly fast, rugged SSD, however with more emphasis on rugged than fast. There are SSDs on the market, such as the Samsung 850 PRO and probably the 850 EVO that are faster. Intel, as usual, places most of the value in their products in the reliability factors, which I applaud greatly. Honestly, both SSDs would be fast, but technically there are faster ones, but what you'd see is so minuscule, and I think Intel deserves something for the technology they do. 
• I think that WDD Green drives are gross, for mass storage you'd benefit from a WDD Black 1TB just because of the speed difference. However, speed and HDD are pretty much oxymoron, so pick your poison when it comes to HDDs. 

Overall, great build, and good luck. 

Thanks. 

i have made some changes since. http://pcpartpicker.com/user/1traxxas15/saved/#savedbuild_2016426

You'll be able to play IV and V easily. I'm currently running an Asus MB, with 16gb ram and a GTX750Ti GPU, with a 600Watt PSU, and it runs just fine, playing all my Steam games on Ultra, with ease.

Not a bad setup but I would still suggest getting a bigger power supply. Also I think the water cooler is overkill especially if you don't plan on overclocking. Something like this would be fine (http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Air-Performance-Cooler-CAFA50/dp/B003IT6RDE/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1424117411&sr=8-11&keywords=corsair+heatsink+fan). I run that fan (or something very similar) on my i7 4790k which are known to run hot and I still have really cool temps even during stress tests. You could save money by getting a regular heatsink fan and use the money you saved for a bigger PSU (700W-800W range).

 

I couldn't tell you too much about the AMD processors but I have heard that Intel is the way to go when it comes to CPUs. I have had a computer with an AMD CPU and it ran just fine but I prefer Intel but that is just me. Also with the extra money you save from not going with the water cooler you could go with a Samsung EVO SSD. Nothing wrong with the Intel SSD as Mr.Quiggles said but Samsungs are better, or maybe I'm just biased. I run two 1TB Samsung EVOs and love them. http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-120GB-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-7TE120BW/dp/B00E3W15P0/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1424117703&sr=8-8&keywords=samsung+ssd

 

Out of all my suggestions though I would stress upgrading the power supply more than anything.

Edited February 16, 201511 yr by l3ubba

if i were you i would make some changes the ram i would go with is the hyper x furry its a bit better and can get it cheaper also the ssd would pick a samsung and try to get a 7200rpm hdd and a black drive not green keep the h100i even if you don't oc it will keep your cpu a lot cooler than most air ones for the psu 500 is fine but a 600-650 be bit better and the msi gtx 970 is a good card its the fastest and coolest of the 970s other than that really nice build will have no problem max out stuff on 1080p even so with windows 10 comes out with dx12

Edited February 16, 201511 yr by JAMESNYPD

The last build you linked (Dakota's PC) looks great except for a few things:

 

That cooler is quite expensive, and unless you're overclocking to a good extent, you don't need it. I would recommend a cheaper watercooler (Kraken x31, x60, or Corsair H60, H80, etc.)

Western-Digital's Green Series hard drives are meant to be power conservative, not fast. I would recommend a WD Blue or Black hard drive if I were you.

That power supply is not the great. I would recommend an EVGA PSU with more wattage (750w G2 by EVGA IS AMAZING), or a nicer Corsair PSU with more wattage. Seasonic PSUs are good too. You probably want a fully modular PSU, because then you can switch out cables for nice cable management, which allows for a slightly cooler computer and good looks.

 

You MIGHT want a different SSD. Samsung and Crucial make good ones. Avoid Kingston SSDs, they've been getting gradually slower.