Build Help for Gaming (and Streaming?) on Ultrawide

[Tyerker]

Can a high-end air cooler like a Be Quiet / Noctua handle an i7 up around 4.5+GHz, or do you more or less need water cooling to OC an i7 much?

Thanks for the info so far on the PSU's / necessary power connectors. So if I wanted to (hypothetically) run SLI 980s or whatever, I would need 5 PCI-E connectors. I will keep that in mind. And Seasonic is definitely my favorite brand of PSU. I had a Platinum 760W in my last build. I was just looking for the most affordable Corsair/EVGA/Seasonic with enough PCI-E connectors.

 

[EarthDog]

Depends on the silicon and what voltage is needed to get there...

 

[Mpegger]

And relative air temps. You rocking A/C all summer long, or cracking the window open to let the cooler outside 90F+ temps into a 100F room?

 

[Tyerker]

My apartment will have A/C running whenever it gets above 75-80F if the PC is running.

Put together a slightly different build. i7 on this one, with a 970 that only uses a single 8-pin. And a Seasonic PSU with 2 8-pins and a 6-pin, so all the connectors I would need to upgrade to SLI, or to a beefier single GPU. Plus went with the Cooler Master CPU Cooler and Silencio case, so it should be extremely quiet, and I don't have to spend money on all the flashy LED fans and whatnot.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($279.99 @ Micro Center)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 120XL 76.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: EVGA Z97 FTW ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (Purchased For $80.00)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($177.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card ($328.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Cooler Master Silencio 652S ATX Mid Tower Case ($104.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($74.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $1206.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-23 08:08 EDT-0400

 

[dudleycpa]

My apartment will have A/C running whenever it gets above 75-80F if the PC is running.

Put together a slightly different build. i7 on this one, with a 970 that only uses a single 8-pin. And a Seasonic PSU with 2 8-pins and a 6-pin, so all the connectors I would need to upgrade to SLI, or to a beefier single GPU. Plus went with the Cooler Master CPU Cooler and Silencio case, so it should be extremely quiet, and I don't have to spend money on all the flashy LED fans and whatnot.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($279.99 @ Micro Center)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 120XL 76.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: EVGA Z97 FTW ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (Purchased For $80.00)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($177.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card ($328.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Cooler Master Silencio 652S ATX Mid Tower Case ($104.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($74.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $1206.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-23 08:08 EDT-0400

$1,200 - Wow that is impressive. I've seen the EVGA power supplies on sale at the egg. Hard drive maybe? You need another drive and maybe a DVD for twenty bills or so?

How was the weather? Everyone alright?

 

[bob4933]

That storm was nuts wasn't it? Haha.


Yeah that's a great build for 1200!

 

[Tyerker]

1. The lightning was INSANE! It was like a strobe light outside. Lost power for maybe 10 minutes, but thankfully no flooding or anything at my house.
2. I have never ended up using more than 500GB of storage on any of my PCs. I have a Macbook Pro with a 1TB in it, so I can host media off of that. I imagine that 500GB will last me quite a while, and I can worry about a larger storage drive later. I guess once I start with the recording / streaming, it will start to take up storage space pretty quickly, so that might be on the short list of upgrades after I start using it. I just want something fast and functional first off.
3. The Macbook also has an optical drive for ripping/playing media, and I end up installing Windows or Linux off a thumb drive more often than anything else.
4. The EVGA GS550 would be slightly cheaper, too. Guess it's a personal preference thing yet again, but EVGA is definitely the price-performance leader in PSUs, it seems.

Hope you guys are safe and OK, too. Thanks for the advice again.