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Good evening Tom's Hardware,
I would greatly appreciate some advice in the building of my new, and first, rig. Concerning my thought process in choosing these components, although not a hardcore gamer anymore due to active duty service, parenting responsibilities, and school, I do enjoy playing games such Skyrim, BF4, and WoW with my free time- preferably on maxed settings. Furthermore, I am also an avid Photoshop user. With that being said, I'm thinking of using two High definition screens (one for school work/Netflix and one for play). I attempted to keep this build on a budget under 1500.00 USD, and want to get the best 'bang' for my buck. Without further adieu...

CPU: AMD FX-8350
CPU Heat Sink: Cooler Master Hyper N520
MOBO: Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
RAM: G.Skill Sniper Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2133
Boot Drive: Samsung 840 Pro Series 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk
Storage Drive: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM
GPU: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB
PSU: Corsair 860W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX
Case: Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced ATX Full Tower

Here is the list on part picker
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2V7Jh

My first blaring question, is the 860W PSU powerful enough to support this system, and if so, could it support crossfire later on in the rig's life? Do any of you technical experts have any advice or opinions about my build and anything that I could do to further enhance my mancave media hub? Thank you greatly in advance to anyone who takes the time to help a guy out!

 
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Looks great, although I would switch a few things minutely, like the HDD for a Blue instead of Black, unless you really want to pay that premium price for the extra 2 year warranty over the Blue. Switch the SSD for an an 840 EVO instead of Pro, best price to performance. You really don't need 16Gb of RAM as no game will ever take advantage of more than 8Gb of RAM, an Photoshop is still image editing so 16Gb will advantage you but really not by much, so save he money. Finally, I would switch the cooler for a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo.

With this saved money, I would try to go for a GTX 770, which easily beats the 270x, and also, SLI has much fewer problems than Crossfire. And yes, that 860w PSU will be fine for SLI later, although you...
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Looks great, although I would switch a few things minutely, like the HDD for a Blue instead of Black, unless you really want to pay that premium price for the extra 2 year warranty over the Blue. Switch the SSD for an an 840 EVO instead of Pro, best price to performance. You really don't need 16Gb of RAM as no game will ever take advantage of more than 8Gb of RAM, an Photoshop is still image editing so 16Gb will advantage you but really not by much, so save he money. Finally, I would switch the cooler for a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo.

With this saved money, I would try to go for a GTX 770, which easily beats the 270x, and also, SLI has much fewer problems than Crossfire. And yes, that 860w PSU will be fine for SLI later, although you may need more if you plan on overclocking everything in that rig.

So this is what it would look like: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2VcuX
Happy building!
 
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860w should be plenty to crossfire 2 270x's when you need to. Also I would suggest getting a Hyper 212 evo over the n520. I had an n520 years ago and it's cooling performance leaves a lot to be desired.
 
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I would not get an amd card right now. Miners have driven those prices up past the point of cost efficiency. Go with the 770 as the man above suggests.
 
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