Plz help - bday present, but is it compatible

[kerik_10]

wuld like to know how this looks to some one with a smarter eye lol. any help would be most appreciated and thanks in advance

Thermaltake Element V Black Edition Steel Full Tower Computer Case Colorshift Fans VL200K1W2Z

CORSAIR Professional Series HX850 (CMPSU-850HX) 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

GIGABYTE GV-R797TO-3GD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card x2 crossfire

Pioneer Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 10X BD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA Internal BD/DVD/CD Writer BDR-207DBKS

OCZ Agility 3 AGT3-25SAT3-240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

CORSAIR H100 (CWCH100) Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C9D-16GXM

ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8150FRGUBOX

 

[azeem40]

Budget? I see a lot of people forget to include it.

 

[obsama1]

Is this just for gaming? What is the budget? What is the monitor res?

The FX-8150 is the bottleneck. Get the i5-2500K or i5-2570K. It will have a big performance increase.

Get 2 670's in SLI instead.

The OCZ Agility 3 isn't as good as Crucial or Samsung drives.

Get the Noctua D14 for cooling. Cheaper, and cooler.

Get 8GB of RAM, if the person will be just gaming.