PC for gaming, recording gameplay and light 3D animation and rendering.

adamtuts

New member
Obviously I'm not after an absolute beast which renders scenes in seconds. I'm happy to wait hours but I really need something for college. I'm not all that knowledgeable when it comes to building computers so I need your input. What should I change or what do I need extra?

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Case
CORSAIR 230T COMPACT GAMING CASE - BLUE LED

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache

Motherboard
Gigabyte Z97X Gaming 3: ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, XFIRE/SLI

Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970 - 1 DVI, 1 mHDMI, 3 mDP - 3D Vision Ready

1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk
2TB 3.5" SEAGATE SSHD, SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM (64MB + 8GB SSD CACHE)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY

Processor Cooling
INTEL STANDARD CPU COOLER

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)

USB Options
2 PORT USB 3.0 INTERNAL PCI-E CARD + STANDARD USB PORTS

Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)

Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
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What do you think to this? Will it be able to record modern games and do light 3D work? I need something that's fast but affordable. Thanks!
 
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keynes

Multiverse Poster
i7-4790(non-k), triple copper heatpipe, 650w modular psu and a caviar black as the secondary drive. You won't benefit from a hybrid drive as a secondary drive if you got an ssd as the primary drive.
 
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