Is it good to start building a project before you have all of the components?

[Christige]

I am about to start a build for a gaming pc. I have enough money now to purchase all of the parts apart from the graphics card. Would anyone recommend building it then adding the graphics card in approximately a year's time. The build is as follows:

Corsair Graphite 600t (gunmetal)
Corsair CMPSU-600CXV2UK Builder Series 600W Power Supply
Asus P8Z77-V LX Motherboard
Intel Core i5-3570K
Corsair 8GB DDR3 1866Mhz Vengeance Memory
Seagate ST1000DM003 3.5 inch 1TB Barracuda Hard Drive

And the graphics card I will possibly get in the future:
XFX Double D Radeon HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5

Do all of these parts work together as I found with another mainboard that the memory was to high frequency for it?

thank you

 

[Christoi]

A year's time? You aren't planning on HD4000 graphics for the time being, are you?

I wouldn't though, technology changes too quickly and having a half-complete system really isn't worth it - even without major releases, price also change by a significant amount. Either wait until you have the money, or drop down some components to fit in within your budget. I'd estimate that you could perhaps fit an FX4300 + GTX650Ti/HD7850 for around the same price, which would perform pretty well.

Also I'd recommend avoid the XFX DD HD7950's, some of the cards are voltage locked. Look into Sapphire's Dual-X or HIS's IceQ cards instead, which seem to be fine (or a Club 3D, though that seems to be hard).

 

[Bang]

If this is a gaming rig theres no way I could say "use onboard graphics for a year" That would be epicly LOL

It might not be the card you want, but consider spending $100 or so on a 7770, or a little more on a GTX 650, then upgrade to the card you want when you can afford it.

As for the motherboard, I reckon the MSI Z77A-G45 is a better board for the same money.

Have you got any parts from another machine you can use in the new rig?

 

[Deejeta]

This is a troll thread right?
You can't be serious.