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[InfieldFly]

Been 6 or 7 years since I last built a gaming system, or played anything for that matter...back when CS Source and BF2 were the hot things. I'm looking to get back into it with BF4, and I have about $1500 give or take that I'm interested in throwing at a new box.

Just monkeying around on NewEgg, I ended up with this - not complete of course, but the baseline for something new.

Any glaring mistakes here? I know a couple things will be labeled overkill (cores, etc) but if I can toss a little cash at this thing now to help future proof it, all the better. Things like the case, SSD/drives I can upgrade along down the road, but the GPU/CPU/MB/RAM I'd like to be pretty well good for a couple years.

If there's cost saving measures I'm missing, feel free to chime in - I'm starting from dead scratch. Monitor, KB/M, speakers, headset....I'm buying everything new.

RAIDMAX AGUSTA ATX-605BW Black/White Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
RAIDMAX AGUSTA ATX-605BW Black/White Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Item #: N82E16811156280
-$25.00 Instant
$15.00 Mail-in Rebate
$109.99
$84.99
ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
$184.99
1
PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 950W High Performance 80PLUS Silver SLI CrossFire Intel Haswell Ready Power Supply
-$40.00 Instant
$10.00 Mail-in Rebate Card
$169.99
$129.99
1
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9
$169.99
1
AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8350FRHKBOX
$199.99
1
Crucial M500 240GB SATA 2.5" 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal Solid State Drive CT240M500SSD1
$149.00
1
HIS IceQ X² H797QM3G2M Radeon HD 7970 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
$359.99
1
AMD GIFT- RADEON GOLD REWARD for THREE FREE
-$99.99 Saving
$99.99
$0.00
Subtotal: $1,278.94

 

[simon12]

All looks OK, I assume you are spending that much on the board and power supply so you can add a second 7970 later otherwise its a waste. Also 8Gb RAM is plenty and RAM is very expensive at the moment so getting 2x4Gb now and the same again later will save some cash with little or no drop in performance.

 

[winkay]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($199.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 76.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($25.98 @ Outlet PC)
Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($184.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($68.98 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($63.26 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 3GB Video Card ($354.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: NZXT Phantom (White) ATX Full Tower Case ($95.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Corsair 760W 80 PLUS Platinum Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($115.49 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($16.98 @ Outlet PC)
Total: $1106.64
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-23 09:03 EDT-0400)

Personally I think this is a bit better, but it's up to you!!!