Building an AMD home entertainment slash gaming pc

greenless27

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i have a budget under $1000 for the whole tower build. i have a left over case, with a few things reuseable like the front usb panel, and dvd/cd drive. i have a couple decent monitors. the old tower was a a budget system i bought from a friend the mobo died, as i was looking at replacing pieces i found it was too outdated to be worth the money so im starting over. the old tower was 4gb ram with a 512 nvidia something gpu. i want it to be alot better than that.

this is what im considering:

ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
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Rosewill CAPSTONE-550 550W Continuous @ 50°C, Intel Haswell Ready, 80 PLUS GOLD, ATX12V v2.31 & EPS12V v2.92, SLI/CrossFire ...
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Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound AS5-3.5G - OEM
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CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CML16GX3M2A1600C10R
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AMD FX-6300 Vishera 3.5GHz (4.1GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core Desktop Processor FD6300WMHKBOX
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Microsoft Windows 8.1 - 64-bit - OEM
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CORSAIR Hydro Series H90 High Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler. 140mm
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Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A/120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
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i Need to know if i messed up picking any components. i will shop around for price once i decide on the final list of parts.

i also need help picking a sub$200 gpu that can handle 2 monitors, moderate gaming, and flawless HD video streaming on a regular basis. i will eventually upgrade sound card.

i know there are already a million threads on builds, i ve read a few. this was based on a system i almost bought on ebay.

 

greenless27

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Dec 3, 2013
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wife spent all my money for christmas so plans have changed:

made it bare bones and will try to upgrade to what i listed here laterhttp://pcpartpicker.com/p/2eFDj


can anyone help me out and tell me if the gpu i already have will at least work for now

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2gytK with this gpu card from my last pc asus en8400gs silent/htp/512m/a