Building a New PC.. need advice.

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Ok.. so I have put together the things I want.. First I need to make sure they will work together. Second, I was curious if there is hardware that is equal to the ones i picked (or close) for a little cheaper. I would like to get the price down a little. I play alot of games and would like to run them at a high quality without sacrificing performance.

This is what I have picked.
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Motherboard: http://
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Video Card: http://
Ram: http://

I will be using my 620w PSU, DVD/CD Rom, and CPU Cooler from my old PC.
 
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Yes 8 gigs of ram is perfectly fine for what you need, you will only need more if you are simultaneously running three different games. Save yourself some money and go with 2 X 4GB.


Depends on what games you want to run ultra on. Games like Metro will gobble up anything you can throw at it. If you want a nice smooth experience on ultra you are going to want to put as much money into the graphics card as you can.

A 7970 or 680 would be my suggestion but I know those will throw your budget into chaos. Use the following list and the benchmarks on Tom's to see which card is right for you.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html
 

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The game I am mostly playing right now is Rift.. I will probably play Elder Scrolls Online when it comes out.. I play MMO's mostly and what I'm looking for is to basically be able to go into an event/raid/pvp etc.. something with lots of people, lots of particle effects and lots of action and have No lag.
 

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According to Gaming CPU Hierarchy There doesn't seem to be an AMD Equivalent.