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[Vulpesveritas]

7770 OC $125: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814127664
6850 $135: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814102908
560 $160: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814162091
6870 $160: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814161389

[Fear Radick]

Vulpesveritas, on 25 June 2012 - 12:25 PM, said:

7770 OC $125: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814127664
6850 $135: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814102908
560 $160: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814162091
6870 $160: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814161389

Thanks, i am north of the border so i get to pay more one way or the other, unless i get a chance to sneak down there one weekend lol.

[Vulpesveritas]

Canadian:
7770: http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16814127687 $125
7770 OC: http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16814127664 $135
6850: http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16814131374 $140
560: http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16814130664 $180
6870: http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16814161389 $170

[Fear Radick]

Vulpesveritas, on 25 June 2012 - 01:06 PM, said:

Canadian:
7770: http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16814127687 $125
7770 OC: http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16814127664 $135
6850: http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16814131374 $140
560: http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16814130664 $180
6870: http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16814161389 $170

I rest my case

[Fear Radick]

Got permission to break the bank a little, as long as the wife gets a new laptop....

Processor
AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition (120W) Quad Core Socket AM3, 3.5GHz, 8Mb Cache, 1800MHz HT, 45nm
Motherboard
Asus M5A97 EVO Socket AM3+ AMD 970/SB950 Chipset Dual Channel DDR3 2133(O.C.)/1866/1800/1600/1333/1066
Memory G.SKILL DDR3 1600MHz 8GB (2x4GB) SSD OCZ 64GB SATA3 6GB/s Solid State Drive, Read: 185MB/s, Write: 75MB/s Hard Drive Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA3 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache Graphics Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 1GB GDDR5 Dual-Link DVI/HDMI/Dual Mini Display Port PCI-Express 3.0 Graphics Card Audio On-Board 7.1-CH HD Audio Optical Drive ASUS Black SATA 24X DVD-Writer 24xDVD+R/-R Chassis Cooler Master HAF 912 Mid Tower ATX Case Power Supply Cooler Master 600W V2.3 Power Supply Cooling Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Direct Heat Pipe CPU Cooler R2

[Vulpesveritas]

well, a few things;
1st of all, I highly recommend against an OCZ SSD. They do tend to be less reliable than other brands, and you will get more out of your PC gaming-wise by dropping the SSD and getting a better graphics card. (Radeon HD 6870, 7850, Geforce GTX560 / ti. )
2nd, Motherboard wise you might consider going for a 990fx board (this is only $5 more http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813157281 ) for having more motherboard functions. (and both xfire and SLI availablity)
3rd; if your set on an SSD, this is a better bet reliability wise; http://www.newegg.co...N82E16820148441
4th; Case wise, this is a better deal; http://www.newegg.co...N82E16811147061 (while the sale lasts, slightly better airflow, more cable management room, and tooless drive bays.)
5th: this is a much, much better power supply. Do not cheap out on the power supply. while the wattage may be lower it is more reliable and stable power, which is more important than 'peak' wattage. ; http://www.newegg.co...N82E16817151094
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16817207013
Note that Coolermaster PSU only has 34 amps on the 12v rail? That's not 600 watts, that is only 400. Whereas the seasonic / XFX PSUs both give their true wattage on the 12v rail (which runs your CPU, GPU, and the majority of your system.

Edited by Vulpesveritas, 27 June 2012 - 08:23 PM.

[Fear Radick]

Unfortunately it will be hard to take advantage of sales at newegg, as they don't ship up here, I'll see what I can find available from what you recommend.

[Vulpesveritas]

Umm... don't they? Http://www.newegg.ca ?

Though motherboard prices are definitely higher. http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16813157281
http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16813157262 asrock 970 board.

PSU wise, i recommend one of the following;
http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16817207013
http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16817703036

http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16817182068

[Fear Radick]

Here is the build I ended up with based on price and availability;

Amd fx-8150 at 3.6ghz
Gigabyte 990fxa board
8gb corsair ram at 1600mhz
Seagate 500gb hdd 7200rpm
Radeon 2gb hd7850
Apevia x-trooper case
600watt corsair psu

[Vulpesveritas]

Fear Radick, on 06 July 2012 - 08:58 AM, said:

Here is the build I ended up with based on price and availability;

Amd fx-8150 at 3.6ghz
Gigabyte 990fxa board
8gb corsair ram at 1600mhz
Seagate 500gb hdd 7200rpm
Radeon 2gb hd7850
Apevia x-trooper case
600watt corsair psu

Why go overkill on the CPU and kill off your CPU?
Better cases out there for the price.
Better RAM for the price.
Also, what model corsair PSU?
If you haven't already purchased, I recommend the following over what you picked, as well as being quite a bit faster for gaming, at the expense of multitasking on the CPU / GPU side. It's really up to you on it all, though I would highly recommend looking at the RAM / Case / PSU. An important thing to make sure you have in a case these days is a bottom mounted PSU. And for $10 more, you can get a far better case when it comes to airflow, room for components, build quality, and cable routing.
CPU: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814161363
or this:
http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16819103961
and just overclock it 400 mhz. save $40 for the same exact performance.

GPU: http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16814127662

RAM: Couple options:
http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16820148518 $2 more and faster, with options for LEDs should you want them.
http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16820220558 Same speed as the corsair RAM, $6 cheaper, low profile so you won't ever have heatsink compatibility problems.

Case: http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16811148060

PSU: A couple of options:
http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16817151093 Will give you the same amperage (and hence wattage) while being more efficient and substantially better built, as well as somewhat more efficient.
http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16817182068 will give you more amps (and hence more watts to use) , while being far more efficient, and better built overall.

[Fear Radick]

Through some diligent shopping and haggling, I have managed to get almost every component new, at about 15-20% reduced pricing and got everything under my budget.