New amd 700-800 budget

[purgatoryvi]

Hello everyone, I am going to be building a new comp in 2 weeks or so and wanted to get it rated. Thank you in advance

Approximate Purchase Date: 1-2 weeks

Budget Range: 700-800 after rebates

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming- swtor and skyrim.

Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, hard drive

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg, microcenter, amazon. (prefer newegg and amazon since there is no taxes for them on a budget right now)

Country: usa

Parts Preferences: amd

Overclocking: Yes

SLI or Crossfire: Yes

Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 (x3 with eyefinity later down the road.)

Additional Comments: I do plan on upgrading the 6870 in about 6 months and will be getting either 2 6950's or 7970/7950s and will use the 6870 in different computer. Also adding an ssd later too since my hard drives are older SATA 3Gb/s
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Case COOLER MASTER HAF 912

CPU AMD Phenom II X4 960T Zosma 3.0GHz

CPU heatsink COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO

Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3

Memory CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600

PSU CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 750W

GPU SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16

cd drive LITE-ON DVD Burner

Windows 7 64-bit oem.

Total ends up being about 770.00 after shipping and rebates if I buy every thing at newegg.

 

[FinneousPJ]

It's a good AMD build. I would go for the 6950 1 GB straight away but the 6870 is fine if you need to save a few dollars now.

 

[ilikemacandpc]

If you do not need tri SLI or tri crossfire, I would go with an ASUS 990x motherboard because of better uefi bios and an HIS IceQX because it will run cooler. Also, your RAM will match the ASUS mobo.

ASUS Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131754
HIS IceQX Radeon HD 6870: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161396

Otherwise, your build is DEFINETELY going to need a more powerful PSU if you are going to crosfire 6970's or 7970's.
For 6950's, I would not worry too much.
Try a 900w for dual 6970's : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182072

Its okay- and find a few 120mm fans for that HAF 912

Otherwise, you are good to go!

 

[purgatoryvi]

I am trying to save where I can, but if I could get the extra 100 would go for a 6950 2 gb. Wouldn't it Still be better to go with the 990fx for the dual 16x pcie over the dual 8x on the 990x board for the same price?

I was also worried about the 750w psu being enough. specially if I go dual 7970. Could always upgrade that to the corsair tx850 v2.

Would also like to add a couple of the cooler master 200m red led fans to the case.