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jscoyne2

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NZXT Tempest 210 CA-TP210-01 Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
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Western Digital WD Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
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SAPPHIRE 100352-2L Radeon HD 7950 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
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SeaSonic M12II 620 Bronze 620W ATX12V V2.3 / EPS 12V V2.91 SLI Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
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Arctic Silver Arctic Alumina 1.75g Premium Ceramic, Polysynthetic thermal compound AA-1.75G
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Mushkin Enhanced Silverline 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory Model 997018
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ASUS P8Z77-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
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Patriot Gamer 2 Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model PGD38G1600ELK
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Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I53570K
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These are my specs and my question is. Is the Motherboard and Video card a good choice. I hear the video card has driver problems. Im looking to spend 300ish on the video card so what is my best bet. Also any other opinions are good. Its a gaming rig, ill build it, 1200 in total
 

strife_ff7

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Whats up with the two different types of ram? If that second set of ram is free just use it. Only need 8gb for gaming but if you really need 16gb for video editing or something just get a second set of the patriot ram.
 
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-You don't need the Arctic Silver. The EVO comes with perfectly good thermal compound.
-That mobo's more expensive than you need. You'd be fine with a $140 ASRock Z77 Extreme4.
-There are 1tb drives on Newegg for not much more money than your 500gb model. Decide for yourself whether twice as much storage capacity is worth $20 more.
-The 7950's fine. Where have you heard of these problems?
 

stchman

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16GB minimum RAM, I would go with 32GB, for like $30 more you can get a 2TB HDD over that 500GB. I would also get an OCZ Vertex 4 SSD for some real speed.

The Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H is a really nice mobo for like $60 less.
 


I do not understand you. 16GB and 32GB of RAM is totally overkill. And the Caviar Blue 500GB is quicker than a 2TB Caviar Green. Makes a difference in games.
 

stchman

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You can get 16GB of RAM for ~$80 these days. Why not get that much?

In all my years of building PCs there are four things you don't cheap out on.

Motherboard
RAM
Power Supply
Case

I have tried to cheap out on them and it came back to bite me in the rear. Reason I didn't say HDD, is that most of your mainstream HDDs are all pretty good (Seagate, WD, Samsung, etc.).
 
I'd reduce those four to just one: the PSU. The case should be chosen entirely by style, the RAM really doesn't matter (why spend $80 when you can spend $40?) and there are great mobos available in the $140 area—that counts as cheap, yes?—that have just about everything a $200 board does minus a couple of bins of maximum OC and a couple of extra ports.