Another hows my build thread

Theres a lot more !/$ on the intel side these days, but I understand if you are a fan of AMD wanting to support them. If not in a rush, Piledriver should be out in a few months, which may fix some of the design mistakes in bulldozer that hold it back.

Your onboard audio is going to be better than that sound card, so I would get rid of it. If buying a dedicated sound card then get a high end one, otherwise onboard audio is more than enough for most people. And if you go digital out to a reciever then there is literally no reason to get a sound card anymore (though some audio conditioning software is not a bad idea). Cards like the ones you picked out are for people with old machines who want to add surround sound, they are not for fidelity or quality audio.

So you know, that Barracuda is a HDD, not an SSD. It will work fine, but do not expect any kind of SSD-like performance out of it. the GPU you picked has a good bundle with a decent SSD, so if you really want one I would go that route.

Follow xtremegamer2damax's advice


Other than those few suggestions everything looks great, and things will work as posted, but our advice will help it out a little.

Man those MSI boards just look amazing, I could stare at that all day