Probably the culprit could be the psu, could be bad capacitors since you need to uplug and wait for 1 minute(capacitor discharge) , its my assumption anyway but worth the try if you can get your hand on a new psu.

Its ok buying a psu with high power rating since it allows more headroom and allows the psu to run a bit cooler thus prolong the lifespan of it. But yeah since you're not hitting the power rating, the efficiency could go down slightly but its a give or take situation 

1. If you are power users and often do heavy rendering, you can consider 5820k as it is just a tad more pricy than 4790k, but it is hexacore vs quadcore of 4790k. But mind you, it not going to be helpful in gaming much (any time soon) and you probably need some overclocking to match the clockspeed of normal i5/i7. Other than that, an entry Haswell-E rig will cost just a little over high end 4790k built (I assume you getting value DDR4 RAM).

2. 970 is a mid high range card which is surprisingly powerful for its price and a beast for 1080p gaming. But as always, if you have the money to burn, the more powerful the better. But practical wise, I will say grab a 970 now and speculate how things develop in the next couple of months (AMD R9 300 series and Nvidia 980TI).

3. Yup, k series is for overclocking. And generally, overclocking don't provide much gaming performance improvement as long as the clock is over 3.5Ghz. Example, gaming wise, i5 4460 probably can handle what i5 4690k can handle.

4. Seperate drive is cheaper and easier to maintain. Hybrid drive is for laptop which having limited HDD bay. It is not a concern (generally) for desktop users.

Budget wise, I will say 4k for rig along provide you with a pretty solid specs for gaming.

Oh may I add 2 more questions?

4. I already have an 240GB SSD + an good old 1TB hd. Is it worth to replace the hd with fusion drive? Is SSD+fusion drive better than SSD+normal hd? (reason is I like to install game on the other hd, and will finish it before start next game)

5.  How many of you are using branded PC set? (like asus ROG) Worth it? (I notice they give some sort of mid-range gear but price seems ok)

You can get cheaper and more optimised specs with custom build as compared to branded prebuild. Custom build also easier to maintain and upgrade as each parts function and warranty independent from another. For example, mobo bios update from mobo from vendors will be more often than branded prebuild.

Another thing to note is different brands have different brand reputation and different price. Generally Asus, gigabyte and MSI will be priced on the high side as compared to other brands.

Ok I will build it myself then. Anyway refer to your earlier comment:

- so Hybrid drive will not help me in anyway in terms of gaming? (Let's say, use my existing SSD as O/S drive, and hybrid drive to store whatever and game installation)

I check around the web, looks like most of the gamer are suggesting 4690 as best value CPU, hm... I probably go with this. (Or pay a little more for 4790) Now all I need is patiently wait for 980ti's info. (or any chances for 970ti?  )

Ok I will build it myself then. Anyway refer to your earlier comment:

- so Hybrid drive will not help me in anyway in terms of gaming? (Let's say, use my existing SSD as O/S drive, and hybrid drive to store whatever and game installation)

I check around the web, looks like most of the gamer are suggesting 4690 as best value CPU, hm... I probably go with this. (Or pay a little more for 4790) Now all I need is patiently wait for 980ti's info. (or any chances for 970ti?  )

Gaming performance has nothing to do with SSD/HDD performance.It won't boost nor reduce FPS.

It will still help with loading times right?

[Budget] RM3.5k~4k

[Purpose]
-Gaming, Graphic Design

[Hardwares that will be re-use]
-No hardwares to be reuse

[Monitor resolution]
-1366x768

[Games & softwares that use frequently]
-Dota2, Farcry4, Shadow of Mordor, Adobe AI and PS

[Personal preferences]
-Budget included a normal/average monitor
-Prefer at least 8 gb Ram

[Location]
-KL/SELANGOR

Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz RM954
Asrock H97-Pro4 RM348.74
Zotac GTX970 Reference 4GB GDDR5 RM1271
Corsair Value RAM 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RM229
WD Caviar Blue 1TB RM199
Seasonic M12II Evo 520W 80+ Bronze Fully Modular RM299
Thermaltake Versa H25 RM135
BenQ GL2460HM 24" RM579
Total:RM4014.74
Optional:CM Hyper TX3 Evo RM94.34
Prices of the CPU,MoBo and optional CPU Cooler are from Jayacom@LYP,GPU is from Cycom@LYP and the rest are from Viewnet@LYP.

Gaming performance has nothing to do with SSD/HDD performance.It won't boost nor reduce FPS.

Most of the gamers suggesting i5 4690 is still the best CPU,but for me,Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 is the best bang for buck.Games are taking advantage of more cores and threads..the latter has 4 cores and 8 threads,the former has 4 cores and 4 threads.

So far,there are no rumours about GTX970Ti.

Anything you can do on hybrid drive you can do it on SSD + HDD combo too. The best of course is install the game directly onto SSD, but if that isn't possible, some sorts of caching will help a little than purely install on HDD.

Cause many of them opt for overclocking build, and 4690k is the cheapest available. For us, we must pay about RM1k extra (different CPU, mono and 3rd party cooler) to change from non-OC i5 build to OC build, the marginal gain on gaming performance certainly don't justify the RM1k premium. Another thing is their price gapping don't seems as steep as ours. I7 is now almost double that of 4460, before all this price hike or GST saga, it is certainly less than that. Retailers know i7 is premium stuffs and people who planned to get one wouldn't be bothered by few hundreds extra. In short, but you see on the Internet may not be applicable directly on our local market.

Thank you! In this case I might consider i7... (4790, non-k, since I'm not buying it every month, mah as well invest a bit)
Oh that's very clear! So will stick to my SDSD+HDD combo. Now rumor are spreading around that 980ti will be end of this month, let's see then.  (Currently using 680, thinking upgrade to 970 is not that major that's why...)

Nah, my bet is we won't see 980TI until AMD's R9 390X is launched, that's the main reason for Nvidia to launch it.

680 and 970 is about 20-30% different in term of performance. The main reason 970 is recommended is for its price.
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gp...970/performance

If you are using a mATX case, then you need to get mATX mobo, what Minecrafter suggested is an ATX mobo, so change it to H97M-Pro4 if want the same model or cheaper B85M-HDS.

If you buy all parts from them, no extra charge for assembling.

[Budget]
- RM3,000

[Purpose]
- 3D design & rendering

[Monitor resolution]
- 1920x1080

[Games & softwares that use frequently]
- After Effect, Premier Pro, Cinema4D, 3Ds Max

[Personal preferences]
- Budget include keyboard & mouse(probably will settle with RM50 Logitech set), and also 23" monitor(probably Dell E series?).
- Minimum spending on casing, probably will settle with CM Elite 311.
- No need DVD Rom

[Location]
- Penang(probably will settle everything in Swisspac)

Many thanks for your advise... kindly suggest me reliable and affordable VGA cooler from Viewnet ?

Thanks in advance

Hello, thanks for the info, appreciate it, with these setup I can run pretty much most of the recent triple A games without many problems right?

Can run, but the playable settings and frame rate are totally depending on developer's optimization on the game.

Hello, thanks for the info, appreciate it, with these setup I can run pretty much most of the recent triple A games without many problems right?

The liquid cooler for GPU average how much ar ? Haha...

Thanks