Is my desktop good for gaming?

[amdcpus]

8 gb 1333 mhz ram gskill ripjaws

idk what case


500watt rosewill powersupply

amd bulldozer fx-8150(will update to piledriver when it comes out)

windows 7 64bit

500gb western digital hard drive

dvdcd drive

19" lcd monitor

wifi card

ECS A885GM-A2 (V1.1) AM3 AMD 880G SATA 6Gb/s ATX AMD Motherboard

amd radeon 6970

 

[gary1]

Good GPU, bad CPU for gaming.

 

[dish_moose]

^+1 HD6970 is still a pretty decent GPU, without knowing which Rosewill PSU it's hard to give it good grades. The cpu is a "pig" for gaming and when overclocked uses too much power.
-Bruce

 

[obsama1]

Good, but the CPU isn't that good. Get an i5-2500K which will get higher FPS.
Rosewill makes so-so PSU's.
Stick to:
XFX
Corsair
Seasonic
Antec

500w is a bit inadequate. Get 600w.

ECS isn't reliable. Stick to:
MSI
Gigabyte
ASRock
ASUS

 

[amdcpus]

ok thanks guys.

 

[unksol]

Do you HAVE the 6970 or do you want to buy one? if you're buying new a 7870 is a much better choice for the same price. Or see what nvidia dishes out

7870 is cheaper (since 6970 is discontinued and prices shot up). lower power. less heat. better overclocking. Not a last gen card and parts will be available to crossgird later. wins every benchmark and just flat out stomps a 6970 in some

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/548?vs=509