A few minor things wrong with this, pretty good build overall
- There's no reason why you shouldn't buy the K-version of a cpu you spend more than $200 on, $10 more for possibly 30% increase in cpu perf
- You stubbornly keep recommending nvidia cards for budget builds, and cut costs in other areas like cases. $30 not spent on an identically performing gpu could go a long way in terms of a nicer case
More serious issues here
- What performance benefits do you think there will be adding 2gb of vram at 1080p?
- There's no need for buying 16gb of ram, the only reason you would get more than 8gb is if you know for a fact you use up 8gb on a daily basis
I take most issue with this
- Same problem as before with not getting the k-series cpu
- If you're citing that spending $100 more on this cpu is justified for general performance increases, you're wrong. The major differences between the i5-4690K and the i7-4790K is that the i7 comes with hyperthreading enabled, a mb or two of extra L3 cache, and a higher stock speed. Getting the unlocked version of either chip negates the stock speed advantage. You won't notice any speed difference without 1MB of L3 cache. And since general performance applications (such as navigating the OS and opening webpages) are all singlethreaded, there will be absolutely no difference, and you will have spent a tenth of your budget on something that doesn't affect your percieved experience at all. The i7 is for heavily threaded desktop apps, such as video encoding.
- The K-version slipped my mind. I've edited the original build.
- This isn't a budget build though. If their budget was $600 or less I'd have no problem using AMD parts. The case, despite the low pricetag, fits all the requirements. The case has 5/5 Eggs, over 2,400 reviews, fits the motherboard, comes with fans included, comes from a well known manufacturer, and has plenty of space for drives.
As for the rest, I guess they don't need to up their budget.
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