Need help building streaming pc. $800

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reaxn

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Hey everyone.

Lightning struck my house and fried most of electronics, so now I'm looking to rebuild my streaming pc.

It will be used for streaming console games, cs go, league of legends, and world of warcraft. Already have the case and optical drive.

I'm so confused as to whether I should go amd or intel for this build. Which components would you recommend?

Thanks for all of the help!
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($187.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Arctic Cooling ACFZ11-LP Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler ($15.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97-GAMING 3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($97.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($74.09 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($104.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($52.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 760 4GB Video Card ($169.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Cougar MX300 ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 450W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $804.01
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-27 13:50 EST-0500


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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($242.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Arctic Cooling ACFZ11-LP Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler ($15.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PERFORMANCE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($74.09 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($104.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 760 4GB Video Card ($169.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Cougar MX300 ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 450W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $808.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-27 13:53 EST-0500

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First build has an i5 and both an SSD + mechanical storage. Second build sacrifices the mechanical storage option and picks up a more powerful CPU instead. Assuming you have some surviving hard drives the second build might make more sense. The motherboards are interchangeable in either build.

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For WoW and other compute intensive multi-player games with poor multi-threading optimizations, I highly recomend sticking with an Intel i5 or better for this build, and pairing it with an nvidia GPU. AMD CPU's and their GPU driver/API implementations perform poorly in these types of workloads.
 
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Nicholas Fu

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CPU: AMD FX-8350 Eight Core w/ stock cooler ($160)
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0 ($110)
GPU: ASUS STRIX GTX 750ti ($160)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600 MHz ($85)
PSU: Corsair CX600M ($60)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB ($50)
Case: NZXT Guardian 921 ($70)
Windows 7 Home Premium ($100)
Total: $795
 
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