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Advice on Micro ATX $800 Gaming PC Build

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June 8, 2014 5:03:21 PM

I'm building a new system for the first time in more than a decade. I'm not a hardcore gamer these days, but I want something that can handle 1080p high detail for everything that's out today (and hopefully everything that's on the horizon for the next year or so at least). Hoping to build it out for around $800.

I have a NewEgg list with my build so far. I'm not married to any of the choices other than wanting a Micro ATX form factor. Advice would be much appreciated!

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June 8, 2014 5:06:52 PM

You have a FM2 board and a AM3+ CPU. , not compatible.
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June 8, 2014 6:00:24 PM

SR-71 Blackbird said:
You have a FM2 board and a AM3+ CPU. , not compatible.


Well that's helpful indeed. Any recommendation on a solid AM3+ mATX mobo for gaming?
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June 8, 2014 6:10:10 PM

You might want to consider an HDD as well. If it is for gaming as you said it was, Space will get taken up relatively fast. For example, you install windows 8 64 bit, that will be about 25Gb, Lets say you want to install Watch dogs, thats 20Gb, and then want to play bf4 as well, another 30Gb.

So with 2 games and an operating system installed, thats 75Gb out of 250Gb and Im pretty sure You will want to play more than that. Also take in account for your media files, text documents and other things you might install.
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June 9, 2014 8:00:31 PM

pigsinspace72 said:
You might want to consider an HDD as well. If it is for gaming as you said it was, Space will get taken up relatively fast. For example, you install windows 8 64 bit, that will be about 25Gb, Lets say you want to install Watch dogs, thats 20Gb, and then want to play bf4 as well, another 30Gb.

So with 2 games and an operating system installed, thats 75Gb out of 250Gb and Im pretty sure You will want to play more than that. Also take in account for your media files, text documents and other things you might install.


If I get an HDD as well as an SSD, what's the advantage when playing games off the HDD? I mostly want the SSD for quick loading times on games, and if they're installed to a big HDD it seems like I'll lose that benefit. So I'd rather just keep a few games installed at a time and have 'em load super-quick!
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June 9, 2014 8:22:41 PM

Theres no performance difference between ssd and hdd other than load times. Ok, but great, you can load a program a couple seconds faster but you won't have the ability to have a lot of space... You should consider a smaller ssd and a relative size hdd
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