Buying my first gaming PC. Need some input.

easy18big

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The prices are about the same and don't really matter to me. I am going to give the basic info of the two different systems i made on two different sites. Please let me know your personal opinion on which would be better and why if you want to. Thank you in advance.

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4820K Quad-Core 3.70 GHz 10MB Intel Smart Cache LGA2011 (All Venom OC Certified)
HDD: 64GB ADATA SP900 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s - 550 MB/s Read & 505 MB/s Write [-24] (Single Drive) And 1 tera of memory for the primary
MEMORY: 16GB (4GBx4) DDR3/1866MHz Quad Channel Memory (Corsair Vengeance)
MOTHERBOARD: ASRock X79 Extreme4 ATX w/ Xfast LAN, Charger, & USB, GbLAN, 3 Gen3 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 2 PCI [+20]
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 3GB GDDR5 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)

1 x Intel® Core™ i7 4820K Processor (4x 3.70GHz/10MB L3 Cache) - Intel Core i7 4820K
Primary Hard Drive 1 x 64 GB ADATA SP900 SSD - Single Drive** Free Upgrade to 128GB ADATA SSD
Data Hard Drive 1 x 2 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200rpm, 6.0Gb/s - Singe Drive
1 x 16 GB [8 GB x2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Corsair or Major Brand **Free Upgrade to DDR3-1866 G.SKILL RipjawsX**
1 x ASUS P9X79 LE -- 2x USB 3.0
1 x Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio -- 7.1 Channels, 96KHz/24-bit
1 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 - 3GB - Single Card
 

avarice

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I would argue that the second system listed will be the better of the two.

First - the 120Gig SSD + 2TB HDD is larger than the first build - and 120 is a solid size for a C: drive.

Second I have had good experience with ASUS motherboards.

Third the Ripjaws upgrade is nice.