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XxDynamiteXx

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• Oct 22, 2014

• #1

What do you think of this build?


Fractal Design Define R4

Fractal Design Integra M 550W 80+ Bronze

Asus Z97-A

Asus Strix GTX 970

Corsair Vengeance 8gb

Seagate Barracuda 1tb

Crucial MX100 SSD 128gb

intel i5 4690K

CM Hyper 212 EVO

 

manu2b

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• Oct 22, 2014

• #2

Looks good, but I'd get a 250GB SSD

 

EarthDog

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• Oct 22, 2014

• #3

Good to me outside of that power supply... never heard of it, and not sure its of good quality or not.

The braintrust had little positive to say about it. I would look at something with a bit higher quality to it personally, but you will likely be fine if you choose not to.

 

manu2b

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• Oct 22, 2014

• #4

The PSU looks like a good one according to reviews.

 

EarthDog

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• Oct 22, 2014

• #5

JG forums, which I linked to, didn't seem to like it(as much as the HS article did) and were questioning the award that was given to it. There are at least 4 reviewers chiming in about it in that thread (including BobNova).

 

trents

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• Oct 23, 2014

• #6

Yeah, my only hesitation is about the PSU. Didn't even know FD put out PSUs. And I concur with manu2b that you should upgrade to a 240-256 gb SSD