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Jim VonSeggern

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Hey Toms,

Hoping to tap the wisdom of the community for a new gaming build. Looking for any conflicts or missteps in this build.

Additionally, hoping to stay at or around $1,000 and ideally aiming to pick everything up at my local Micro Center (MI) for a build out in the next day or two.

I welcome any input or smarter/better options.

Thanks for your time and consideration!!!

Jim

Here it is:

EVGA 02G-P4-2662-KR NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Superclocked 2048MB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card $210

MSI 970A-G46 AM3+ ATX AMD Motherboard $110

AMD FX 8350 4GHz AM3+ Black Edition Boxed Processor $110

Samsung 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW 256GB SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) $240

Diablotek EVO Mid Tower ATX Computer Case $40

LG 24x Super Multi Internal SATA DVDRW DL Drive - Bare Drive $16

Corsair Vengeance Series 8GB DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) CL9 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit (Two 4GB Memory Modules) $80

Corsair CX Series CX750M 750 Watt ATX Modular Power Supply $85

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit OEM $100







 
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JRAtk94
I'd swap that PSU out for an XFX 650W.

Also, that SSD makes up almost 25% of the total cost of that build, which is pretty steep. I'd personally, forgo the SSD in favour of a better GPU.

Apart from that, it looks alright - is that RAM CAS 9 though?

Also, it might be worth getting a 990FX chipset motherboard, but that's up to you. The Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 is a good one.
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I'd swap that PSU out for an XFX 650W.

Also, that SSD makes up almost 25% of the total cost of that build, which is pretty steep. I'd personally, forgo the SSD in favour of a better GPU.

Apart from that, it looks alright - is that RAM CAS 9 though?

Also, it might be worth getting a 990FX chipset motherboard, but that's up to you. The Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 is a good one.
 
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+1 to the SSD.... for the budget your going to get better peformance buying a $60 1tb HDD or $70 750gb SSHD

and dumping $180 on your GPU

SSD would only effect boot and load times. Whereas a 660 is rapidly being dated in terms of framerates on new releases
 
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Jim VonSeggern

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@KareemGT — It's $220 for the CPU and MB bundle at MicroCenter, so I just marked it $110 for each.

@JRAtk94 — I did have another build with the WD Black 2 Tb ($160) ... since I usually only focus on a handful of games at any one time, I figure I'd opt for performance over volume. A few game i play now (Marvel Heroes, World of Tanks) have some serious load times too.

Another option could be the 1Tb WD Balck and a 128 SSD.

What is the primary advantage of moving to the 990FX?

And what would be the minimum recommendation for a GPU. I plan on playing in 1080p on a 55 in. Samsung 200 mhz HDTV. Ideally I'd like SLI options for down the road. Would consider SLI of the GTX 660 within the next few months even.

Also, that RAM is CAS 9.

Thanks for the input, and look forward to hear what you have to say.

Jim
 
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Since you're planning a future SLI set-up, a 990FX chipset is pretty mandatory - it provides a much better SLI set-up than the 970 chipset (2x PCIex16 3.0 slots on the 990FX, whereas 970 chipset typically comes with a PCIex16 2.0 slot and a PCIex8 2.0 slot, with the latter slot bottlenecking the second card)

A 1tb Caviar Black with a 128gb SSD would be a good balance - a single 256gb SSD simply won't provide enough storage space on it's own.

For 1080p, a GTX 660 is fine, although a GTX 760 would be a worthwhile investment - I'd recommend the MSI Twin Frozr variant. You won't be able to fulfil the 200hz rating of your TV though - you'd literally need a GTX Titan for that.

You'll get between 30 to 60fps on ultra settings on all modern games (except Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, Metro: LL etc) with a single GTX 760.
 
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Jim VonSeggern

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Thanks so much for all the advice. The system is built, and I'm having a lot of fun with it.

So here's where I ended up at:

MSI GTX 760 (initially got the EVGA GTX 660 Superclock, but about to swap it for the GTX 760)

AMD FX 8350 CPU

Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 MB

Corsair Vengeance 8Gb 1866 DDR3

256Gb 840 Pro SSD

Corsair TX850M PSU
 
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