Any final thoughts?

[CaptainFreezy]

Good evening everyone,

Finally after several months of saving my money, I've been told by my dad that I can have the computer early even though I haven't saved enough money yet if I get a distinction in my grade 4 piano exam at the end of the month:sweatdrop:

The computer I'm building will be mainly for playing games such as GTA, BF Hardline and Arma 3 as well as the flightsims: P3D and FSX. I will also do some streaming of the flightsims and some video and photo editing. Due to me playing flightsims I will be overclocking my CPU.

My budget is £1500 but that must include a 2TB hardrive and Microsoft Office 2013.

This is the spec I've come up with and I'm wondering what your thoughts are on it:

Case
Send In Your Own Case (Phanteks Enthoo Pro)
Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-4790k Quad Core (4.00GHz @ upto 4.70GHz) (Good for streaming and will overclock)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Z97X Gaming 3 (Will it provide a suitable overclock standard?)
Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
NONE, I ALREADY HAVE A GRAPHICS CARD (MSI GTX 970) (This one matches my colour scheme)
1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm) (Requirement from my dad)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£79)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£89)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Windows 10 Upgrade
FREE Upgrade to Windows 10 with all Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 Purchases
Office Software
Microsoft® Office Home & Student 2013 (1 License & Disc) (£85) (Requirement from my dad)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)

Price: £1,480.00 including VAT and delivery.

 

[steaky360]

To answer your questions, yes you can overclock using that motherboard and the 'k' variant processor but its unlikely you'll see any gains from overclocking for gaming - although you might see an improvement with the flight sims (I still don't think it will be too great an improvement).

 

[CaptainFreezy]

Thank you for your reply, yes I do certainly agree in most games there won't be a noticeable improvement but for FSX, it's an old game which was poorly coded and every MHz I can get extra out of the CPU goes a long way in improving the performance with complex add-ons such as PMDG.

 

[CaptainFreezy]

Is everything else alright or do you guys have any suggestions for things I should change?

 

[Jackversion9]

For the intended use that seems pretty much perfect

 

[CaptainFreezy]

Thanks you, sounds good!