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  • 08-04-2013 2:05pm
    #1
    riggsfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭


    Planning on a build which is going to be spread over a few months.
    Just purchased the Areocool CyborgX midi case with Areocool strike X 800watt power supply. And two more 120mm fans.
    Asus sabertooth 990FX r2.0 mobo. Yet to buy.
    AMD FX-8320 (piledriver) processor. Yet to buy.
    Corsair vengence ddr3 8gig ram. Yet to buy.
    Need a gpu recommended also blu-ray drive, hdd, wi-fi card and any other relevent components. Thanks.


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  • #2
    Tij da feen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 598 ✭✭✭Tij da feen


    First of all what's your budget for all of these components and what resolution do you plan on playing at. Also do you need a Blu-Ray drive? Watching Blu-ray movies on computers is complicated enough and requires payed software. There was a freeware version kicking around a while back but I didn't follow it.


  • #3
    riggsfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭riggsfitz


    Tij da feen wrote: »
    First of all what's your budget for all of these components and what resolution do you plan on playing at. Also do you need a Blu-Ray drive? Watching Blu-ray movies on computers is complicated enough and requires payed software. There was a freeware version kicking around a while back but I didn't follow it.

    Budget around 150-180 mark for the graphics card with the idea of buying a second card at a later stage


  • #4
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    I'd probably get the extreme 4 instead of the sabertooth for about 70 than the sabertooth less and bump up the GPU budget instead.

    It a very good very nice board, perfect for overclocking and can do 8x/8x crossfire as well (Unlike most other 970 chipset boards) so adding a second GPU is not a problem.

    Although the sabertooth can do 16X/16x if the plan was to pair two ~€150-€200ish GPUs , there would really be little if any real difference in performance anyway.


  • #5
    riggsfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭riggsfitz


    marco_polo wrote: »
    I'd probably get the extreme 4 instead of the sabertooth for about 70 than the sabertooth less and bump up the GPU budget instead.

    It a very good very nice board, perfect for overclocking and can do 8x/8x crossfire as well (Unlike most other 970 chipset boards) so adding a second GPU is not a problem.

    Although the sabertooth can do 16X/16x if the plan was to pair two ~€150-€200ish GPUs , there would really be little if any real difference in performance anyway.

    Ok i'll take that into concideration. Looking at that it doesnt support 8 core cpu's so it looks like the phenom 2 x6. Which save me another bit. So now the budget for gpu is 250-300.
    The vdu it'll be running on will be either a 32inch sony bravia hd ready or a 47inch samsung series 6 full hd (for the time being).


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