Building a New Gaming Computer

So it's been a while since I've made a computer myself so I don't really know what's good or not. A while ago I asked a mate of mine who's a bit more up to date with computer parts to pick some out for me

Link: PCPartPicker

Although I do trust him to an extent, I figured that it's good to get a second opinion

I posted this on another site and asked for their opinion and here's what I got from them until the topic derailed into a "my computer's/opinion 100000x better than yours" debate

-Splurge a bit more for a better processor since Intel isn't a very good company
-Try buying a cheaper brand of RAM from sites like Crucial. Also, maybe buy at least 16GB
-Wait until the Nvidia 1080/70 releases and either buy that or wait until the graphics card I have listed drops in price
-Possibly buy a more powerful power supply

Any suggestions? And please, try to keep the conversation civil

I have an old 1TB HDD I'm going to import and wipe from my old computer. If I need any more after that, I can always buy another/upgrade

diedrichvk said:

I have an old 1TB HDD I'm going to import and wipe from my old computer. If I need any more after that, I can always buy another/upgrade

The only issue you will have with an older HDD is that your MB will likely be SATA 3 and the drive will not reach it's potential for data transfer.

I have a Z97 Classified board (EVGA) and my 4 1Tb drives are SATA II, so I'm limited in bandwidth (But they were free and in good shape)

A 1Tb SATA III drive can be had for less than $100 if you don't go SSD. I still have about 7Tb of drives available to me so right now I'm not going to move to a SATA III capable just yet.

I'd get the Nvidia 1080 if you can afford it.

The nVidia 10X0 cards are out, but limited in availability. I've seen 1080s listed as in stock at Newegg, but not for long. Amazon has some at scalper's prices.

If your budget for a graphics card is roughly $200, you may want to wait for the AMD RX-480 cards. They are supposed to become available on 29 June. No hard performance numbers are available yet, but they are supposed to compete with older cards that cost twice as much. (I'm no AMD fan, but if they manage to deliver high end performance at a low midrange price, good for them.)

What about the card I have listed? In terms of quality, how well will it perform?

CountMike said:

That's not big concern with mechanical disks, even SATA3 HDDs can't saturate SATA3 controller and SATA2 is not going to be any slower.

True, hence my non existant rush to grab SATA III discs when I have a drawerful of II's on hand :)