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Pizoi

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The sweet spot for power supplies is roughly half of their rated capacity, a 700w power supply is going to be at its highest efficiency when ~350w is being drawn. That's why I don't mind getting getting a bigger PSU than needed.
 
Khane

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Thanks everyone for the suggestions and help. I wanted to keep the cost down while not sacrificing too much. I decided to go with the i5 because while I will be running Hyper-V every once in a while, it's not something I will be doing terribly often.

Here is what I went with:

Case:Rosewill BLACKHAWK Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case, come with Five Fans, window side panel, top HDD dock - Retail - Newegg.com

CPU:Intel Core i5-4690K Haswell Refresh Quad-Core 3.5GHz LGA 1150 Desktop Processor BX80646I54690K - Newegg.com - Newegg.com

MOBO:ASRock Fatal1ty Z97 Killer LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gbs USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard - Newegg.com

SSD:SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE250BW 2.5 - Newegg.com

GPU:EVGA 02G-P4-2966-KR GeForce GTX 960 Gaming 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support SuperSC ACX 2.0 Video Card - Newegg.com

PSU:SeaSonic S12II 620 Bronze 620W ATX12V V2.3 EPS 12V V2.91 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply - Newegg.com

And 16 (2x8gig) G.Skill RipJaws for memory.
 
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Pizoi_sl said:
The sweet spot for power supplies is roughly half of their rated capacity, a 700w power supply is going to be at its highest efficiency when ~350w is being drawn. That's why I don't mind getting getting a bigger PSU than needed.
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Especially when you can often find higher watts and ratings if you can afford to shop around some to price match and wait for good deals. I got my Seasonic 1050 on sale and with a rebate for the price that the 650 at retail, and 850 was with the same rebate. Yep, it's overkill, but if you have the time to wait on deals you can almost always bump up a step or two from your targeted Watts/rating, and PSUs are an area where getting more than you need isn't as pointless or expensive as going up a level on a CPU or GPU where you rarely see the next higher model drop all the way down to the same price range like you often do with PSUs.
 
Jovec

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Pizoi_sl said:
The sweet spot for power supplies is roughly half of their rated capacity, a 700w power supply is going to be at its highest efficiency when ~350w is being drawn. That's why I don't mind getting getting a bigger PSU than needed.
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While true, a gold or platinum high quality PSU is only going to have a slight efficiency variance between 25%, 50%, and 75% load - like 1-3%. Even extreme low and high load percentages are efficient on high quality units (2-5%). There is a bigger variance with bronze and older, low quality PSUs.
 
Khane

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Mist_sl said:
Why are people buying these when the 850 EVO is newer, faster and cheaper?

The entire bunch of 840 lines are surpassed completely.
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I thought I read that the 840 outperformed the 850. Besides the 850 wasn't cheaper. I got the 840 on Amazon for $112.
 
Jysin

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Khane

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Well I haven't opened the packaging or anything, in fact it hasn't arrived yet. I can always return it and get the 850. Free returns with Prime right?

Glad I came here to post this stuff!
 
Crone

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Khane_sl said:
Well I haven't opened the packaging or anything, in fact it hasn't arrived yet. I can always return it and get the 850. Free returns with Prime right?

Glad I came here to post this stuff!
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Don't have to go Pro either. 850 EVO are really good.
 
Jovec

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850 Evo line is the value line. 850 Pro is the performance (and endurance) line. The Pro line is better, but not at the expense of getting a smaller drive size for typical consumer usage. IOW, 512GB Pro > 512 Evo > 256 Pro > 256 Evo (unless you have specific needs). If you could find an 840 Pro that matched the price and capacity of an 850 Evo, I'd get the 840 Pro, but I doubt you'd be able to.

840 line had the 840 and 840 Pro, with the 840 Evo supplanting the original 840.

Crucial BX line (value) and MX200 line (peformance) are good choices too, replacing their older MX100 line (value) and M550 (performance) lines.
 
Kovaks

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I'm not so sure about the free returns with prime I think that went away last couple of times I returned it was only free if they screwed up or item was not as described.
 
Khane

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It's $8 to return it. Still worth it since the 850 is $20 cheaper and apparently better.

EDIT: I almost forgot I'm gonna need a data drive. I was planning on using my 500gb 10k raptor but realized that's a terrible idea, especially since the thing has probably outlived any normal standards at this point. It's almost 10 years old I think. Don't want to tempt fate. WD Caviar Black still where it's at for data drives?

EDIT 2: Welp, guess not on the caviar, it's not much less expensive than an SSD. Guess I'll upgrade to a 500gb 850 evo.
 
Crone

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Khane_sl said:
It's $8 to return it. Still worth it since the 850 is $20 cheaper and apparently better.

EDIT: I almost forgot I'm gonna need a data drive. I was planning on using my 500gb 10k raptor but realized that's a terrible idea, especially since the thing has probably outlived any normal standards at this point. It's almost 10 years old I think. Don't want to tempt fate. WD Caviar Black still where it's at for data drives?

EDIT 2: Welp, guess not on the caviar, it's not much less expensive than an SSD. Guess I'll upgrade to a 500gb 850 evo.
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Ya, the Black's are great drives, but you pay for it. Years ago, I built a machine with a 1TB Black as my main drive, and then went with Samsung or other drives for storage. That's not so practical anymore considering the cost.
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I've heard the WD Red drives are good, and built for NAS storage, but others probably could comment more on that.
 
Chanur

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I hate the hard drive prices. I bought twice that storage for that price 3 years ago.
 
Kovaks

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I recently read that for because of multi platter vs single platter wd blue are actually faster than black, but that could be fixed now.
 
ShakyJake

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Has anyone noticed about how often the i7-4790K go on sale? I've been watching NewEgg and Amazon for quite some time now and have yet to see them with a discount.
 
Joeboo

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Yeah, it's probably the best-selling i7 processor model, doubt they put it on sale often. Usually about the best you can find is a good sale on a processor + mobo combo, but almost never the processor by itself. Regardless though, Microcenter stores will be cheaper than almost any sale you will ever find online. Their in-store pricing is insane if you have one near you.
 
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