Did I buy a good PC?

[DashingKnight]

I just bought a new PC and would like your opinions on it. Is it a good PC? How long do you think it will be up to date?

 

PC: - Alienware custom built. Premium Liquid Cooling.
Processor: - Intel® Core™ i7-4820K Processor. (10M Cache, up to 3.90 GHz).
Operating System: - Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit.
Memory: - 16GB (4 X 4GB) Quad Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz.
Hard Drive: - 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s.
Video Card: - NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 690 4GB GDDR5.

 

 

[ZeroKing]

Good PC? It's quite the beast.

[Erik005]

It certainly is a beast, but why no ssd?

[DashingKnight]

I have no idea about ssd. I'm not all that technical savvy to be honest. I just trusted my friends advice on this build. It will still be ok won't it?

[FMod]

You should usually ask before buying, not after.

 

It's going to perform well in games, apart for the lack of SSD (which affects loading times, most of all in MMOs), although it isn't best bang for the buck and a white box build could've been better for the same price.

[Lord Garon]

You could have built two "good PC's" for what it probably cost. It is a league above "good". Have fun.

[kalikka]

No SSD: The normal usage speed of the PC is slow. All the applications are slow to start etc. Personally I see this as a very big /facepalm

 

HDD: That tells absolutely nothing. For example WD Caviar Black is noisy as hell and WD Caviar Green is silent. My WD Caviar Blue is absolutely the loudest part in my PC.

GTX690: Basically SLI GTX670. More than enough power for anything.

i7-4820K: Same performance as Xeon1230v3 that is 100$ cheaper.

LGA2011 Motherboard: You didn't say the model/brand so I expect something that is bad at OC and is overpriced. Good H87 mobo for Xeon1230v3 would have cost 100$.

Water cooling: /facepalm

RAM: 8gb is more than enough for anything, 16gb is overkill depending on what you do.

 

You won't need any updates as long as the PC stays alive. Water coolers usually die in few years if you don't maintain them (refill/etc.).

Edited October 13, 2013 by kalikka

[DashingKnight]

I wouldn't even know where to begin maintaining the Liquid Cooling system. Would any PC shop be able to do this for me? How would I even know when it needed servicing? I would hate to think the PC would die in a few years. With what I shelled out, I was really hoping it would last a long time. :confused:

[Rennn]

That PC is a beast. It'll absolutely run anything at ultra 60 fps, and will last several years.

An SSD would be a good addition, but it's not really necessary.

[FMod]

I wouldn't even know where to begin maintaining the Liquid Cooling system. Would any PC shop be able to do this for me?

I'm 99.99% sure it's not a proper LCS like overclockers use, but simply a sealed circuit like one of the Corsair H100 or H80.

 

These LCS-in-a-box don't need to be serviced, other than the same dust-off you do for regular fans. They don't have the performance of custom built water cooling either, of course. Such systems perform on par with top air coolers, as they essentially are these coolers, only with water instead of heatpipes.

 

(Overclocker LCS rely on high thermal inertia to smooth out the demand and on very large radiators to get water back to about room temperature before it's used again. Closed loop systems lack this and keep pumping hot water around.)