$1200 PC Build - Is it good?

[Mooks]

Are you mocking me sir?

You shouldn't really give false advice to SourVag (hehe) about AMD. AMD is budget king. They do tend to heat up quick with stock cooler but he will be cooling it via water cooler so theres no problem. The FX8320he chose outperforms any I5 and gets on the first gen i7's level. With that said, when he asked you to give gim a list of parts, you downgraded his GPU choice by a significant bit, going from a 380 to a 760 is not worth it at all, just to get an i5. Sure, you do get more features as PhysX and shadowplay on Nvidia but would you really sacrifice your FPS for those gimmicks?

 

[Hike]

Get the fuck off my thread. Go spam up someone else thread with your useless shit.

Not to be rude or anything, but he doesnt spam threads with useless shit...

His ratio is probably the best on mcm. He has more ratings than messages. If anyone is spamming, its you. Honestly your comment was just rude imo.

 

[NotSoBoop]

Not to be rude or anything, but he doesnt spam threads with useless shit...

His ratio is probably the best on mcm. He has more ratings than messages. If anyone is spamming, its you. Honestly your comment was just rude imo.

It's a she not a he lol.

 

[nara~kavi]

i was just trying to help...

 

[SourVag]

Not to be rude or anything, but he doesnt spam threads with useless shit...

His ratio is probably the best on mcm. He has more ratings than messages. If anyone is spamming, its you. Honestly your comment was just rude imo.

All the ratings are from her friend, montyburly. They both got banned for spamming before.

 

[nara~kavi]

hey jokes on you we can't even rate people so how would we have those high of ratings!

 

[SourVag]

hey jokes on you we can't even rate people so how would we have those high of ratings!

You literally just got that provoked from you, like I said, fuck off.

 

[BlizzardMC_]

G AMD use more cores but they are worse.. Intel use less but they are much better! Its like having 8 Shit tasting sweets or 4 Amazing tasting ones!

True dat

 

[montyburly]

You literally just got that provoked from you, like I said, fuck off.

yeah you got that provoked from you

 

[SourVag]

I had the same exact processor not long ago, its really good but right now I currently have an intel i5 4440k that works much faster than it. Don't get me wrong, AMD is personally great and cheap to me, but it depends what models you are comparing to honestly.

So you would recommend the one you have now?

 

[SourVag]

Component Selection Price
CPU
AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor
$164.99 Buy
CPU Cooler
Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
$87.55 Buy
Thermal Compound
Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste
$6.79 Buy
Motherboard
MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition ATX AM3+ Motherboard
$84.00 Buy
Memory
Kingston HyperX Fury White 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory
$50.99 Buy
Storage
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
$119.99 Buy

Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
$47.99 Buy
Video Card
MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card
$329.99 Buy
Case
BitFenix Comrade ATX Mid Tower Case
$58.99 Buy
Power Supply
SeaSonic S12II 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
$52.99 Buy
Optical Drive
Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer
$18.89 Buy
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit)
$86.98 Buy
Wireless Network Adapter
TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter
$37.24 Buy
Case Fan
Arctic Cooling Arctic F12 PWM CO 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan
$9.98 Buy
Headphones
Astro A40 7.1 Channel Headset




So this is the final build, the windows 8 will be swapped out with windows 7. Any thoughts?

Not really. Mine works great but it also works on an asus motherboard, 12gb of ram and graphics card. It seems to run much better but it depends what you also have in your computer right now.

Also, http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-3570K-vs-AMD-FX-8350.

I got mine for much cheaper, still runs just as well as the FX8350 at least.

 

[SourVag]

Looks great. Just..

I wasn't able to run my video card (is a GTX680 2GB) with 400watt (power supply.) I don't know but you never know, you might need more imo.

I replaced it with a Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

 

[Jack]

Located Would you mind providing us with some statistical enlightenment as to why you think Intel is so superior to AMD?
Sounds like he wants to do more gaming related tasks.
I'll agree that Intel has much better single-core performance, but AMD you definitely get more overall bang for your buck.
Nowadays, many games and programs utilise multithreading, which means they will use more than just a single core on the CPU.
In my opinion, the extra cores are great for multitasking as well, because I usually have a number of things open, Chrome, Spotify, a game, etc, and they all balance well across my shiny new 6-core AMD CPU (which only costed $85):

Actually, I used Passmark to benchmark my CPU and got somewhere in the 8000 range (with all the Intel i7 $300+ CPUs) although I wiped Windows recently and will have to redo that if you want evidence.

SourVag your CPU and CPU Cooler will both come with thermal paste, so you really don't need more, but that's up to you.
AFAIK nobody really uses CDs/DVDs anymore, as you can easily create bootable USB devices using Rufus.
Also don't waste $90 on Windows 8, just get it from "the internet". Much easier and cheaper.
Finally, 8 cores is cool and all, but the reason why you're only getting 3.2Ghz is because of that "E" (FX-8320E) which is a lower-power version of the FX-8230. Unless you actually care about power consumption (only 30W, AKA a few extra dollars per year) I would recommend spending a little more and getting the FX-8350 (http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-cpu-fd8350frhkbox) - still 8 cores as the name suggest, but running at 4.0GHz (a huge boost) and easily overclockable to 4.6Ghz with that cooling.