Building a computer with a budget of approximately $1,500. First time doing this, so I would greatly appreciate input on the components I'm thinking of so far.

(*Note*) - The Parts listed below are currently about $1,300, which is perfect .
(**Note**) - Cooling is a work in progress, case is kind of small)

[CPU] Intel i7-4790K
[GPU] NVIDIA EVGA GeForce GTX 760 /w ACX Cooler (4 GB GDDR5)
[RAM] Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB
[RAM] Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB
[Motherboard] Asus Z97M-PLUS Socket 1150
[Case] Corsair Carbide Series Air 240 White MicroATX
[HD] Seagate Desktop HDD 1 TB SATA3 64MB Cache
[SSD] Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SATA 6GB SSD
[Power Supply] EVGA SuperNOVA 750W 80 Plus Gold Certified
[CPU Cooler] Corsair Hydro Series H100i Extreme Liquid CPU Cooler
[Fan] ?

First time posting here, please don't crucify me for some reason .

This post was edited by Chozo on Jan 1 2015 11:19pm

I'd use 16GB of RAM instead of 32 and get a gtx 970 instead of a gtx 760
unless you run virtual machines n shit u don't need that much
if you want nice fans you can go with corsair or noctuas

This post was edited by Disturb on Jan 1 2015 11:20pm

Really only need 8GB for gaming.

Get a 970/980

Look into a modular PSU if that's something you would like.

ATX:
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/GBmTVn


mATX:
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/BzMtHx

16GB ram instead of 32GB ram. 970 instead of 760, pretty much what Disturb said.

like others said
then get a corsair 350d
msi m gaming micro board
or the asrock fatality matx board

then its sexy as fuck

Thanks so much, this is the exact kind of input I was hoping for.

I'm hesitant to purchase a 970 as I feel the 760 exceeds my needs already. I suppose I went a bit overboard on RAM though, I'll very likely drop that down to 16 GB.



I'll consider that case, seems a little safer in terms of fitting everything. Any issue with the Motherboard I picked out? Seems very similar to the ones you listed here.

This post was edited by Chozo on Jan 2 2015 08:21am

Like others have said, you could go down to 8GB of RAM for gaming purposes. 16 is a lot. Then get the GTX 970. That'll last you a long time.

I went with a Corsair 450D with a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo.

like others have said only need 8gb ram and get the 970.
I used to 5 box rift/wow and that was the only time I could have honestly used more than 8gb of ram.
also with your budget no reason not to get the 970
depending on your intentions you can get by with a hyper 212 evo instead of watercooling
again with your budget could spring for the 540 air as well
could get a 240 ssd as well depending on which ssd you get the difference in a 120gb v 240gb is like $30-40

got a quick build together for $1,330 with those changes

If you want to do really high-end gaming (which a 1500 dollar budget can easily do), then get a 970. 32GB of RAM is way overkill. Like everyone has said, 8GB is plenty. I have 16GB but I do some other stuff on here where 16GB is nice. Case that shaft said for sure. Everything else is fine - if you save any money from switching RAM and GPU around then get a bigger SSD.