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ngalx123

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So I have got my mind set on these components, will they be enough for 1080p gaming?
-AMD FX-8310 8-Core CPU clocked @ 3.4 GHz (4.2GHz Turbo)
-Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 mATX Motheboard
-8GB1866 Kingston HyperX Fury Red DDR3 RAM
-1 TB Western Digital Caviar Blue HDD
-Ultra LSP Series V2 550-Watt Power Supply (2 6-pin PCI-e adapters)
-Cougar Spike Mini Gaming Tower, Front 120mm fan, 2 panel 120mm fans
-PowerColor 2GB GDDR5 R9 270 Graphics Card
-LG SATA 3 DVD Drive/DVD Writer
-Edimax EW-7822UAC Wireless AC1200 Dual-band USB 3.0 Adapter

Do you guys think it'll work?
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The 8 core AMD products are mediocre value CPUs for real-time workloads like gaming.

The M5A78L-M has pretty bare-minimum VRMs for the AM3+ socket specifications.

If the RAM is configured 1x8GB, then it will not have channel interleave, and if it is configured 2x4GB it will not have rank interleave.

The LSP V2 series is OEMed by Andyson, the same OEM famous for bringing us RAIDMAX PSUs, which are absolute trash. To make matters worse, it's not a 550W PSU, it's more like a 350W PSU with a big lie on the label.

Combining the poor per-core performance of AMD FX CPUs with the AMD GPU driver/API software implementation is not ideal. Stick with nvidia cards for AMD CPU, or use an Intel CPU with an AMD GPU. AMD+AMD tends to offer high...
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The 8 core AMD products are mediocre value CPUs for real-time workloads like gaming.

The M5A78L-M has pretty bare-minimum VRMs for the AM3+ socket specifications.

If the RAM is configured 1x8GB, then it will not have channel interleave, and if it is configured 2x4GB it will not have rank interleave.

The LSP V2 series is OEMed by Andyson, the same OEM famous for bringing us RAIDMAX PSUs, which are absolute trash. To make matters worse, it's not a 550W PSU, it's more like a 350W PSU with a big lie on the label.

Combining the poor per-core performance of AMD FX CPUs with the AMD GPU driver/API software implementation is not ideal. Stick with nvidia cards for AMD CPU, or use an Intel CPU with an AMD GPU. AMD+AMD tends to offer high visual quality for the money, but the worst performance (FPS).

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So, will it work?

Yea, it will probably work. But I think it's a pile of rubbish.
 
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