Break out the cigars

[mangeface]

There's a new one in the family. My friend wanted to build a rig on a budget of $800-900, and I think this turned out quite well. There's a couple of hiccups, with the HDD (he has an old one in it for the moment) and with the RAM (one of my 4GB sticks in it temporarily), all came DOA.

Specs (when DOA are replaced):
Cooler Master 430 case

ASRock 990FX Extreme3 MOBO

AMD FX-8320 CPU

Cooler Master Hyper 212

Sapphire 7790 2GB GPU

8GB Crucial Ballistix RAM

Corsair TX750M PSU

1TB WD HDD Caviar Black

Future plans he has is to either crossfire another 7790, or get one of the 8000 series cards when they're released.

Overall, I'm happy with the build and he's loving it.

[Rabbit]

There's a new one in the family. My friend wanted to build a rig on a budget of $800-900, and I think this turned out quite well. There's a couple of hiccups, with the HDD (he has an old one in it for the moment) and with the RAM (one of my 4GB sticks in it temporarily), all came DOA.

Specs (when DOA are replaced):
Cooler Master 430 case

ASRock 990FX Extreme3 MOBO

AMD FX-8320 CPU

Cooler Master Hyper 212

Sapphire 7790 2GB GPU

8GB Crucial Ballistix RAM

Corsair TX750M PSU

1TB WD HDD Caviar Black

Future plans he has is to either crossfire another 7790, or get one of the 8000 series cards when they're released.

Overall, I'm happy with the build and he's loving it.

Jesus man, that's an 8 core right? Surprised you pimped it all out and no SSD. But still, thats a hell of a rig for that price.

[mangeface]

8 core it is. He already had a copy of Win7. An SSD upgrade will definitely be in the plans for the future. I tried my hardest to budget one in, but it would've taken too much of a hit in the CPU or GPU areas. If the 7790 lives up to what I have read about, crossfire will give him an amazing rig for quite a time.

We got lucky, 4th of July sale. The RAM came free with the motherboard, so that saved about $60. And he has about $50 worth of mail in rebates.

Sorry about the massive text, but sending this from my phone. I finally joined the new age a month ago. I had a $2,500 rig and a $100 phone and I thought "That ain't right".

[sharpie]

OT;

[carmikaze]

8 cores are pretty useless, because no game actually uses them. Would have better been an i5.

[mangeface]

8 cores are pretty useless, because no game actually uses them. Would have better been an i5.

No it's not. When you have games like ARMA 3 that will utilize 6, not useless at all. And with the budget we were working off of, Intel was out of the question.

I double checked and the budget was $700-800, and I think after shipping it was just over $800 by a few bucks.

[Cossack]

For budget, AMD all the way I guess. But even I am on budget, I am still Intel and Nvidia guy