Opinion about AMD gaming build

thenamelessone · Jun 1, 2013

Hi all,

I'm planning on buying the following AMD gaming build:

CPU AMD FX-8350
CPU Cooling Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
Motherboard Asus M5A97 R2.0
RAM Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz 16GB CL9 (2x8GB)
GPU Asus Radeon HD7970 DirectCU II Top 3GB
SSD Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB
Harddisk Seagate Barracuda 64MB 7200RPM 1TB
Drive Asus DRW-24B5ST
WLAN TP-Link TL-WDN4800
Case Corsair Carbide 300R
Fans Corsair AF140 Quiet Edition (1x) + Corsair SP120 Quiet Edition (2x)
PSU Corsair CX600M
OS Microsoft Windows 8 64bit

Already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse...

This build will be used mainly for gaming (Crysis, CoD, BF3, etc), some light video-editing and office tasks.

My budget is around €1250 (£1070/$1625)... This build will set me back €1265, so what do you all think?

P.S. I've also considered an Intel build, but it came up way more expensive!

Drew010 · Jun 1, 2013

That all looks good to me, however I would suggest a Samsung 840 SSD and a WD HDD, and just as a personal preference Windows 7 over 8 unless you like 8. I would suggest getting some thermal paste as well, as the kind that comes with both the CPU and the cooler are crap. Arctic silver 5 is very good.

thenamelessone · Jun 1, 2013

Drew010 :

Good call about the thermal paste... I forgot about that one! Does the WD HDD (I assume you mean the Blue series) perform better than the Seagate? Why do you prefer the Samsung 840 SDD? It has a read/write speed of 530MBps/130MBps while the Kingston HyperX 3K has 555MBps/510MBps. Is the overall performance/reliability of the Samsung 840 SSDs really that better?

Drew010 · Jun 1, 2013

For the WD I would go with the black, it's just some personal preference mixed with very high ratings/reliability. As for the Samsung, the pro version is slightly more expensive, but is very reliable, I have the non pro version. Both of them don't use the old controller that nearly every other SSD uses (I dont know about the one in particular that you chose) and due to them using this new controller they have a significantly longer life span with more reliability. And to be honest these rated read/write speeds don't have very much meaning as there are very few tasks that you can use that will need that much speed!

Uros Grabovica · Jun 1, 2013

It's very fine build, but I still don't get how did you manage to cross 1000$?

thenamelessone · Jun 2, 2013

Drew010 :

For the WD I would go with the black, it's just some personal preference mixed with very high ratings/reliability. As for the Samsung, the pro version is slightly more expensive, but is very reliable, I have the non pro version. Both of them don't use the old controller that nearly every other SSD uses (I dont know about the one in particular that you chose) and due to them using this new controller they have a significantly longer life span with more reliability. And to be honest these rated read/write speeds don't have very much meaning as there are very few tasks that you can use that will need that much speed!

I see... I will look into it! Thx ;-)

thenamelessone · Jun 2, 2013

Uros Grabovica :

Unfortunately PC parts are relatively expensive here in The Netherlands compared to the US. Usually you can swap out the $ sign for an € sign and you'll have a rough idea what the prices will be here...

Gennaios · Jun 2, 2013

go for one samsung ssd probably the 840 series and 4 sticks of ram (4x4) for better data transferring!

Outlander_04 · Jun 2, 2013

4 sticks of RAM wont increase memory speed . You have two channels available so thats all the bandwidth whether you have 2 or 4 RAM sticks

Gennaios · Jun 2, 2013

i didnt say anything like that but the more the sticks are the better the data transfering!its not a huge difference but it does exist!

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