(DIY) Dear Expert Please Help

[Ginster]

Hi all, anyone know the pricing for the 2 mobo and keyboard?
I selected some item to rig a mITX, would like to know how would you pair those part up. Would be Doing Photoshop, Illustrator, Casual Gaming.
Budget 1.5k ~ 2k.

Case: BitFenix Prodigy >>> $123 / Thermaltake Core V1 >>> $70
(If budget allow i prefer water cool, recommend cooler pls)

Mobo:
MSI h87i ac + i5 4460 >>> 384
MSI b85i gaming + i5 4690 >>> ???
MSI z97i gaming ac + i7 4790k >>> $667
Giga z97n gaming 5 + i7 4790k >>> ???

GPU:
Asus gtx970 >> $447 (rakuten deal 20% plus 5%)
Zotac gtx970 >>> $404 (lazada deal 10%)
Sapphire Dual-X R9 280 >>> $257 (Lazada deal 10%)

HDD: Western D black 1TB >>> $99 / Western D blue 1TB >>> $67

RAM: Kingston hyperX fury 1866 2x8gb >>> $218 (overkill or 8gb?)

KeyBoard: Daskeyboard 4 Professional >>> ???

Monitor: Recommend pls, 1440p better or 144hz refresh should be priority? i am fond on Asus MX299Q

Already have the following
PSU: Reuse Corsair HX520 (is it able to support the new rig? or Recommend pls)
SSD: SanDisk ultra plus ll 480gb >>> $220 (amazon lightning deal)

 

[Alternative X]

1) No one is bringing in the MSI B85i Gaming and the Gigabyte Z97N Gaming 5. The Daskeyboard 4 Professional costs $249 at X-treme Solutions.

2) Are you overclocking? If not, you do not need a Z mobo or a K CPU. The Asus H81I-Plus with the i5 4690 ($407) will be enough for Photoshop and Illustrator as both programs are incapable of making use of hyperthreading.

3) If using a SSD, the WD Blue is good enough for storage.

4) If not doing OC, DDR3-1600 RAMs are good enough.

5) Define casual gaming. What games do you play?

 

[bhtan83]

For Photoshop, u need a wide gamut monitor that is capable of displaying Adobe RGB color space which is not cheap.

 

[Ginster]

Thanks for the input.
Didn't expect Daskeyboard to be so ex.
I would like to OC for the kik of it.. Haha.. Like fun.
Casual gaming, Dota2, bastion,hearthstone.
Such high end monitor will burst my budget bah, probably no lah.

 

[Mycrus]

1) No one is bringing in the MSI B85i Gaming and the Gigabyte Z97N Gaming 5. The Daskeyboard 4 Professional costs $249 at X-treme Solutions.

2) Are you overclocking? If not, you do not need a Z mobo or a K CPU. The Asus H81I-Plus with the i5 4690 ($407) will be enough for Photoshop and Illustrator as both programs are incapable of making use of hyperthreading.

3) If using a SSD, the WD Blue is good enough for storage.

4) If not doing OC, DDR3-1600 RAMs are good enough.

5) Define casual gaming. What games do you play?

what does DDR3 1600 have to do with OC??

 

[Alternative X]

what does DDR3 1600 have to do with OC??

Well, when doing OC (multiplier based or mobo bus based), some overclockers preferred to get faster RAM as the faster RAM can be overclocked to get faster system response times (especially when OCing the mobo bus) or downclocked to put less strain on the memory controller in the CPU so that a higher stable CPU multiplier can be achieved without slowing down the RAM too much.

If not doing OC, most modern Intel mobos normally would support a non OCed speed of DDR3-1600 (DDR3-1866 for AMD mobos) only and any RAM faster than this speed will be downclocked to this speed and thus it makes no sense to buy faster RAM if not doing OC.

I do wonder though, what happens if in the pursuit of higher stable CPU clocks, I actually drop stable RAM speeds to below 400Mhz and widen timings to say, CL 20-30?

 

[Ginster]

Well, when doing OC (multiplier based or mobo bus based), some overclockers preferred to get faster RAM as the faster RAM can be overclocked to get faster system response times (especially when OCing the mobo bus) or downclocked to put less strain on the memory controller in the CPU so that a higher stable CPU multiplier can be achieved without slowing down the RAM too much.

If not doing OC, most modern Intel mobos normally would support a non OCed speed of DDR3-1600 (DDR3-1866 for AMD mobos) only and any RAM faster than this speed will be downclocked to this speed and thus it makes no sense to buy faster RAM if not doing OC.

I do wonder though, what happens if in the pursuit of higher stable CPU clocks, I actually drop stable RAM speeds to below 400Mhz and widen timings to say, CL 20-30?

Very knowledgeable! Thank you for the info.

 

[Mycrus]

I call BS. For a typical gaming workload 1600 is good enough.. nothing to do with OC.