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Looking for two cents on new build

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Loyudo

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1. Gaming
2. I'd like to keep it under $600 but will go over for a great deal
3. U.S. mostly new egg
4. Not a fan boy
5. Reusing monitor, case, hard drive, and dvd drive
6. I have looked at similar threads
7. Going to overclock, this will be my first time though so simpler is better🙂.
8. 1080p
9. buying on friday

here's what i've got so far.

processor
http://cgi.ebay.com/AMD-Phenom-II-X...ion-/220710901422?pt=CPUs&hash=item33636516ae
power supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139005
motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130290
video card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130557
memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211409

The mobo seems a little cheap but it has everything i need and the reviews didn't seem too bad if anybody sees a red flag please let me know. Also I read in another thread that the gtx 465 has some issues, would i be better off with the 460 or is this a good deal. So far I'm at $545 after my mail in rebates assuming i get them(crossing my fingers) so i have some room to work with.
 
I'm leery of that ebay processor. It's a $160 processor for $125 with $20 shipping?
Also if you're going to overclock don't bother getting the high-end like the 965. Lower-clocked processors in the same family have more overclocking headroom.

And yes, the GTX 465 is pretty bad. It's a crippled GF100 chip which had major power issues. The GTX 460 is the MUCH better GF104.

That motherboard should do you for an AMD build. The question is do you want us to try to get you into an i5 build or would you rather we stick with AMD and spec you a SSD?
 
Looked at Micro center awesome deals but it's a 3 hour drive and i have a v8 truck. The reason some people jack up the shipping is because paypal takes a percentage of the sale and not shipping. If you can hook me up with the i5 for my price range and still keep a gtx 460 or equivilent i'm all for it. As for the ssd i'm already planning on getting one in a month or two when i can afford i just wanted to get the main rig going first.
 
Oh snap!

That last i5 combo is crossfire compatible, and I just noticed a 6850 at a GREAT price!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102908

Promo code: HARDOCP1215A

$598.96 with $35 in MIR with the Gigabyte mobo above, and it's Crossfire-ready.

I think there are cheaper (non USB 3.0) crossfire compatible motherboards. (And I'm not sure that Gigabyte mobo has a very good PCIe speed for the second card anyway. Edit: cancel that. It's x4 [which is fine] as long as the second PCIe x1 slot is unoccupied.)
Checking now.
 
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Loyudo said:
liking the first i5 build found a different asus combo with the usb3 and sata 6Gb/s for a little less money.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...t=Combo.564040
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Looks good. But I say go with the Crossfire-ready setup. SATA 6Gb/s is unneeded -- even if SSD's come out in the next few years that can easily saturate 3Gb/s in sequential reads/writes, they're not going to saturate it in random. So you could hook up a future 6Gb/s SSD to a 3Gb/s interface and still have 80-90% of its improvement over current gen devices.
USB 3.0 is up to you -- there's a crossfire-ready build with it and without it.

Crossfire-ready just seems like a no-brainer to me here. You're not paying ANY extra for it and it's the only place where you could potentially get ~80% improvement in a simple upgrade.

Loyudo said:
not really keen on crossfire. without the crossfire which gpu would you recommend the benchmark favors the 6850
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
but those don't always tell the whole story.
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1GB GTX 460 and 6850 are nearly identical in every respect: Performance, power draw at idle and load, noise, and overclockability. With this 6850 being below the GTX 460 in price (first time I've ever seen it), it's a no-brainer.

Loyudo said:
Also i'm a little worried about the memory with no heat spreader, is it not needed for the 1333?
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They wouldn't warranty something that would fail by design.
But if you want heat spreader:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211364
 
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DominionSeraph said:
This is slightly cheaper (no usb 3.0). Posting it all so nobody gets confused.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102908
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139005
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231394
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128421
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115067

Promo Codes: EMCZNZR53,HARDOCP1215A

$593.95 with $45 in MIR.

And I'm done. $549 after rebates and crossfire-ready.
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That board is only "Crossfire-capable" in the strictest sense. x16/x4 is way too unbalanced to get good performance.

I'd probably take this build and not worry about crossfire. Swap out the mobo for a full ATX P55 board like this GA-P55-USB3 + i5 760 combo and swap the PSU for a quality 400W unit like this Silverstone.
 
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