Help choosing PC!!

[iiH3R3T1C]

Hi, I'm going to build my own PC soon, I will use it mostly for gaming and surfing the web. As this is my first "real" PC I don't know much about which parts are better or what, but I have done some research and I have come out with this two builds that are around the same price:

----------------------------------------------------------------------FIRST BUILD-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-$122- Case: AZZA Solano 1000 Black/Black Japanese SECC Steel/Metal mesh in front ATX Full Tower

-$135- Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz

-$164- Motherboard: ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 AM3 AMD 890FX + Crossfire bridge

-$45- RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600

-$560- Graphics Card: 2x SAPPHIRE FleX 100312FLEX Radeon HD 6950

-$65- Hard Drive: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB

-$130- Power Supply: SILVERSTONE ST75F-P 750W

-$20- DVD Burner: SAMSUNG SH-222AB - OEM

Total -$1241-

------------------------------------------------------------------SECOND BUILD--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-$140- Case: NZXT Phantom

-$224- Processor: Intel Core i5-2500k Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz

-$160- Motherboard: ASRock P67 EXTREME4 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX

-$85- RAM: Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9

-$360- Graphics Card: EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570

-$65- Hard Drive: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB

-$130- Power Supply: SILVERSTONE ST75F-P 750W

-$40- Cooler: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1

-$20- DVD Burner: SAMSUNG SH-222AB - OEM

Total -$1214-

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The games that I would play are StarCraft2, The Witcher 2, Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty 4, and stuff like that at a resolution of 1920x1080. So I would really appreciate it if someone could help me choosing between these two.

Thanks

 

[striker410]

Ahh, it's hard to say. The first thing is I'm from the homebuilt section, so I am of course always going to suggest building yourself when spending so much money. You will be able to tweak performance the way you want, and feel super badass and love your PC that much more.

Where are you buying from? If you can swap the 2500k and mobo into the first build it would be very beneficial. In fact, wherever you are buying from has pretty good prices. Very good. For cost actually.

So anyway, think over building yourself. You get a lot of benefits, and almost always save money.

 

[iiH3R3T1C]

Ahh, it's hard to say. The first thing is I'm from the homebuilt section, so I am of course always going to suggest building yourself when spending so much money. You will be able to tweak performance the way you want, and feel super badass and love your PC that much more.

Where are you buying from? If you can swap the 2500k and mobo into the first build it would be very beneficial. In fact, wherever you are buying from has pretty good prices. Very good. For cost actually.

So anyway, think over building yourself. You get a lot of benefits, and almost always save money.

I am actually going to build it myself with the help of a friend, and I'm getting the parts from newegg. And I would love to put the 2500k it's mb in the first build, but I cant afford to do so =/

 

[iiH3R3T1C]

And I now realize that I chose the wrong section. How do you change it?? xD

 

[striker410]

You will have to contact a mod. It would be easier to select a best answer and post again in the "New Build" section.

 

[iiH3R3T1C]

Best answer selected by iiH3R3T1C.