AMD 900 EUR build and questions

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ParaNymph

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Hello, I'm going to build my first gaming PC. I know that it is not so high-end and intel would be better but I have decided to go for AMD because of the price.

These are the components:

Corsair 300R Carbide Series
Corsair CX750
ASUS M5A97 R2.0
AMD FX-8350
NOCTUA NH-L9a
ASUS HD7870-DC2-2GD5-V2
2x Kingston 4GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 HyperX blu Edition
Seagate Pipeline HD 1000GB
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB 7mm

This will cost me aroun 823 EUR.

I have some questions however.

Will NOCTUA NH-L9a fit on ASUS M5A97 R2.0 and will it be enough to keep AMD FX-8350 cooled?

Another question is that I have not really seen AMD motherboards with PCI-E 3.0 x16 anywhere just with 2.0 x16. Will ASUS HD7870-DC2-2GD5-V2 run to it's full power even when mounted in PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot?

I have heard that we didnt even tap into 2.0 full potencial, and the card would work good, I just need to verify.

If you have any suggestions or other rig that would be better, even if it is Intel or NVIDIA please advise.

One more thing, I do not need OS as I have Windowns 7 already.


Thank you for your suggestions.
 
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1. Noctua is one the best brands there are, i have 2 case fans myself, they move a lot of air and are very quiet, and it will cool your cpu just fine.
2. There are not any AMD motherboards that have PCIe 3.0 slots, but you will not lose anything by putting a 3.0 compatible card in a 2.0 slot. PCIe 2.0 x16 has the same bandwidth as PCIe 3.0 x8, which is more than enough for any card. By the time a single card will be bottlenecked by x16 2.0 slot, AMD boards will probably have 4.0 on them. But more to the point, the fact that AMD only uses 2.0 will not cause you any problems now or in the near future, so you have nothing to worry about

If you want a nvidia build instead, someone else gotta help you out, never used nvidia gpu's myself :)
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bnn

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1. Noctua is one the best brands there are, i have 2 case fans myself, they move a lot of air and are very quiet, and it will cool your cpu just fine.
2. There are not any AMD motherboards that have PCIe 3.0 slots, but you will not lose anything by putting a 3.0 compatible card in a 2.0 slot. PCIe 2.0 x16 has the same bandwidth as PCIe 3.0 x8, which is more than enough for any card. By the time a single card will be bottlenecked by x16 2.0 slot, AMD boards will probably have 4.0 on them. But more to the point, the fact that AMD only uses 2.0 will not cause you any problems now or in the near future, so you have nothing to worry about

If you want a nvidia build instead, someone else gotta help you out, never used nvidia gpu's myself :)
 
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bnn

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would probably get the sapphire 7870 instead of asus
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202025

perhaps this if you can afford it in your budget
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125476

the mobo will go well with your FX-8350, cost a bit more than Asus M5A97
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130650

get these ram, corsair is great quality
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233577

instead of noctua you can also get this, people say it's really good, and it cost a bit less
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099

the rest looks okay for your budget
 
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