What build would preform better?

[Maxwh2o]

I will be playing bf3 and video editing, recording and rendering.


Build 1- AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition and a MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr II GeForce GTX 570

build 2- i5 2500k and a gtx 480

The first build would let me get a ssd for the same price as build 2.

I have a 2.5" 5400rpm HDD how slow would that be?

 

[inzone]

The 5400 drive is the drive speed of a laptop drive and it's slow.
You will have a better chance of getting a good build with everyting you want if you give us the budget amount and what parts you need and don't need.
There's also a reason that the AMD cpu is $99 and the Intel 2500k is $219 , there is just no comparison and even though the 570 is a great video card the AMD offsets the quality of it by not being as good. Since BF3 is totaly video card intensive and the two cards are the same level build 2 would be better based on the 2500k.
If you post the budget and what parts you need and don't need maybe we can get that SSD by another way.

 

[suteck]

^ + 1 from inzone.. ADDING that If you're going to be doing video rendering, coding and editing you would probably want to look at the 4 core/8 thread processors at least.

 

[Maxwh2o]

budget is $750 and i already have the 2.5" drive and a os.

 

[inzone]

ASUS 24X DVD Burner - Bulk 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS - OEM
$18.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204

GIGABYTE GZ-F4HEB Black 0.5mm Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
$15.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811233090

AMD FX-6200 Zambezi 3.8GHz (4.1GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor FD6200FRGUBOX
$159.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819106010

CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CML16GX3M4A1600C9B
$97.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233198

MSI 990XA-GD55 AM3+ AMD 990X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
$119.99 and a $15 rebate makes the final price $104.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130620

CORSAIR Builder Series CX500 V2 500W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
$59.99 and a $20 rebate makes the final price $39.99.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139027

MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr II GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
$249.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127682

Mushkin Enhanced Chronos MKNSSDCR120GB 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
$89.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226236

The total for this build comes to $777.92 and is just a little over so if you can find an additional $30 from someplace you can get this build which has a SSD and a six core AMD cpu.