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Tell me what you think, budget of $1200. Went for as much performance as less costly as I could.

Gotta buy from different sites, so i'll just list the price now. And the newegg link, which may not be the site I buy from.

 

Case

Cooler Master HAF 912 ATX Mid Tower Case

$49.99

 

CPU

Intel Core i5-2500k 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor

$199.99

 

MOBO

Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard

$101.69

 

MEMORY

G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory

$41.99

 

 

VIDEO

Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB Video Card

$248.38

 

 

PSU

Corsair 750W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply

$89.24

 

HARD DRIVE

Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

 

$119.98

 

OPTICAL

Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer

 

$18.99

 

MISC:

Display:http://www.newegg.co...ID=3938566&SID=

 

OS: http://www.newegg.co...ID=3938566&SID=

 

Keyboard: http://www.newegg.co...ID=3938566&SID=

 

Mouse: http://www.newegg.co...ID=3938566&SID=

 

Total: $1141.18

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Not really, I would have recommended you not get a Seagate drive, though. :/

 

All of the Seagate drives I've had have run under spec compared to Western Digital and Samsung, and since all hard drive prices are racked way up because of the flooding in Asia, it isn't like you wouldn't have been spending an assload on it anyways.

 

Or maybe I'm just too picky. :D

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Not really, I would have recommended you not get a Seagate drive, though. :/

 

This. This, this, this. When it comes to HDDs, I never go with anything but Western Digital. The last time I shrugged it off on somebody getting a Seagate when they were asking me my opinion, the guys drive died within two weeks. No joke.

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Radeon:/ Well Radeon is not bad, but, but, but CCC( Catalyst Control Center) I cant run this shit on my PC and i dont have idea why.

 

I remember you posting about that once...at least I think it was you... I think I'd go for NVIDIA if I ever built a PC though since they seem to have less problems? I've rarely seen people have to troubleshoot NVIDIA cards. Maybe someone else can shine some light on this issue.

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ATI is gay and so is Intel but it's a good build, good choices. Personally I've used Seagate, and WD and found both to be comperable and reliable. I have two WD and a Seagate drive in my PC right now, the Seagate drive being 5ish years old and still working, and the two WD's being 5 years and 3 years old respectively.

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I probably will not get a Western Digital or Seagate drive ever again. SSD's are being so competitive in price, that those who've already set the curve (Intel, Samsung, Corsair, Patriot, Crucial), will be way ahead.

 

I actually don't have any of the aforementioned drives anymore, I scrapped them a while back (I have 3 samsung spinpoints, 2 1TB drives and a 2TB drive), in addition to an OCZ Vertex 2 that I'll be replacing with either a Crucial, Patriot or Samsung SSD here sometime soon.

 

Also don't see how anyone can think Intel is gay. You don't have to agree with their prices, but have you ever actually had problems with any of their processors?

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I've had problems with some Celerons, but those are the lowest end processors for a reason. I've never had issues with any high end intel or AMD processor, but I've always found AMD to be ahead in price-per-performance, and that's where I make my current judgement.

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I'm normally all for AMD myself. But the i5-2500k is very, very good. It is currently either way above the FX-8150 (highest tier Bulldozer) in everything in benchmarks (http://www.anandtech...duct/288?vs=434), close to, or tied neck and neck with it. Intel also has HyperThreading, which basically boils down to having a virtual core for every physical core. So you get 4 physical, 4 virtual cores. AMD hasn't been able to replicate HyperThreading, which a lot of software appear to love. Probably due to Intel's patent on it. When compared against the x6 1100T, it pretty much blows it out of the water.

 

All that is for less than the FX-8150 by a decent amount. ($220 i5 vs $250 top of the line bulldozer)

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Yeah, but AMD will never out perform Intel, in any way. It's scientifically proven, and to have an opinion otherwise is against the law!

 

I sit at roughly 20c at 4.4GHz (Intel Core i7-2600k, Corsair H60).

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