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[Liquid]

Hey PC brehs are these builds good? Should I go with Intel or AMD?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($178.00 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($134.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card ($194.67 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 500R Black ATX Mid Tower Case ($119.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($21.80 @ Amazon)
Total: $852.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.99 @ Micro Center)
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LK ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($114.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card ($194.67 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 500R Black ATX Mid Tower Case ($119.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($21.80 @ Amazon)
Total: $836.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Go Intel and I'll sell you a like new R9 280 in box for $180 shipped.

Go haswell
Save a little on the case unless you are absolutely in love with it.
Save a couple of bucks on the hard drive by buying one from goharddrive.com

Where is your SSD?

I'll throw in an optical drive as well if you buy the card from me, I have tons of those laying around collecting dust. Don't buy one of those at full price anymore

 

[Redguard]

Go Intel and I'll sell you a like new R9 280 in box for $180 shipped.

Go haswell
Save a little on the case unless you are absolutely in love with it.
Save a couple of bucks on the hard drive by buying one from goharddrive.com

Where is your SSD?

I'll throw in an optical drive as well if you buy the card from me, I have tons of those laying around collecting dust. Don't buy one of those at full price anymore

I picked the case mainly cause a friend of mine recommended it. He kept telling me about needing a fan to keep the video card cool and having good airflow overall. I thought about adding a SSD but I was on the fence about it.

Whats wrong with the FX 8350? The only bad things I was told about it was the stock fan being terrible and its power consumption.

 

[Liquid]

I picked the case mainly cause a friend of mine recommended it. He kept telling me about needing a fan to keep the video card cool and having good airflow overall. I thought about adding a SSD but I was on the fence about it.

Whats wrong with the FX 8350? The only bad things I was told about it was the stock fan being terrible and its power consumption.

An SSD is the bottleneck in a PC, its a damn near must at this point for a high end PC. The case is good, but I think its better to cut a little bit on that and throw it into at least a 256GB SSD...your games will load much faster.

The FX 8350 is a fine processor, but the problem is that if you are spending that kind of money on a CPU + Mobo...trust me just go Intel and make sure its haswell. AMD can still offer some pretty nice bang for buck, but not on high end shyt. Plus it looks like AMD is slowly backing out of the enthusiast CPU platform...it's going to be all APU from here on out from them I am assuming. FM2+ and AM1 socket

@2gunsup and @daze23 will surely agree.

 

[spliz]

I picked the case mainly cause a friend of mine recommended it. He kept telling me about needing a fan to keep the video card cool and having good airflow overall. I thought about adding a SSD but I was on the fence about it.

Whats wrong with the FX 8350? The only bad things I was told about it was the stock fan being terrible and its power consumption.

Fx8350 is great..but yea go Intel...games just run better wit that shyt..

 

[Redguard]

I went on a few subreddits for tips and here is a build that someone came up with:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($214.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($86.66 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($71.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: PNY XLR8 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($62.91 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($269.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($33.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Rosewill Hive 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($19.39 @ Amazon)
Total: $897.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available



I'm not sure about that motherboard. I heard the cheaper boards are risky to use. I'm also thinking about switching the case out for something better and slightly more expensive.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

I went on a few subreddits for tips and here is a build that someone came up with:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($214.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($86.66 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($71.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: PNY XLR8 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($62.91 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($269.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($33.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Rosewill Hive 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($19.39 @ Amazon)
Total: $897.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available



I'm not sure about that motherboard. I heard the cheaper boards are risky to use. I'm also thinking about switching the case out for something better and slightly more expensive.

if money is an issue get the better case later.
the case i have now will be good for years to come, i love it.
if you are feeling iffy about the mobo then get a better one.
it's nice to know your board can handle more ram later down the line....and also to be fairly confident that it won't crap out on you.

the only real suggestion i have is that you get a 250gb SSD, trust me.

 

[Liquid]

I went on a few subreddits for tips and here is a build that someone came up with:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($214.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($86.66 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($71.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: PNY XLR8 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($62.91 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($269.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($33.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Rosewill Hive 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($19.39 @ Amazon)
Total: $897.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available



I'm not sure about that motherboard. I heard the cheaper boards are risky to use. I'm also thinking about switching the case out for something better and slightly more expensive.

I would scale down the 280X to a 280... And get the 280 + optical drive from me... That saves you about $100 right there.

Apply the savings to the SSD and motherboard. Try to get a z97 board and 250-256gb ssd

 

[daze23]

I went on a few subreddits for tips and here is a build that someone came up with:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($214.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($86.66 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($71.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: PNY XLR8 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($62.91 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($269.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($33.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Rosewill Hive 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($19.39 @ Amazon)
Total: $897.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available



I'm not sure about that motherboard. I heard the cheaper boards are risky to use. I'm also thinking about switching the case out for something better and slightly more expensive.

I would try to get the unlocked 4690k and a z87/97 mobo

 

[Zebruh]

Want to upgrade my SSD but I know the second I do that fukking BF4 is gonna give me issues.

 

[madeyoulook]

Hey PC brehs are these builds good? Should I go with Intel or AMD?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($178.00 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($134.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card ($194.67 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 500R Black ATX Mid Tower Case ($119.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($21.80 @ Amazon)
Total: $852.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.99 @ Micro Center)
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LK ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($114.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card ($194.67 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 500R Black ATX Mid Tower Case ($119.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($21.80 @ Amazon)
Total: $836.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

For the same price, I think the Corsair 450D is better looking and those dust filters haven't let in any dust since April on mine. I think I would also go with a z87 or z97 motherboard. Also, I recommend the cooler master 212 evo over the
POS stock cooler that Intel gives you.

You can also get a cheaper case and upgrade to an SSD. You can buy cheap windows keys at reddit's software swap as well.

I went on a few subreddits for tips and here is a build that someone came up with:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($214.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($86.66 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($71.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: PNY XLR8 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($62.91 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($269.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($33.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Rosewill Hive 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($19.39 @ Amazon)
Total: $897.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available



I'm not sure about that motherboard. I heard the cheaper boards are risky to use. I'm also thinking about switching the case out for something better and slightly more expensive.

I'm running with a Biostar Z87 hi fi mobo that I got for $90 and it is holding up so far

 

[2gunsup]

would I notice the speed difference between an AMD A8 and an Intel I5

Definitely.

 

[Liquid]

got to possess a cat in murdered: soul suspect and turned into sam fisher for a moment

10/10

Spoiler: ..

really more like 7.5/8 out of 10 so far in this game

 

[2gunsup]

Spoiler

 

[daze23]

Wolfenstein is pretty dope brehs

the shooting mechanics are very solid. graphics are pretty nice (OpenGL btw), but it could use some better AA options

this shot reminds me of Dishonored

edit:

 

[2gunsup]

The Wolf Among Us Ep 5,

Spoiler

that fight in the warehouse

,