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Advice on my build needed.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6y9n99
CPU: AMD FX-6100 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($116.94 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 76.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($129.98 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($76.50 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($55.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($139.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ NCIX US)
I plan to heavily OC the 6100, probably at least 4.5 ghz. The videocard and powersupply are up in the air. I plan on adding an SSD, but I'll wait until I run across another good deal on a 240 gig.
Edit, I would like to get the best bang for buck in all areas. I'm overclocking so I want a beefy MB, but if I can shave some cost off of any area please feel free to tell me where? 
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Everything looks ok.
But that is a low end GPU. Personally I would get a cheaper motherboard, cheaper case and maybe a quad core CPU before I would buy an entry level GPU, use the extra money to buy at least a 760. Or an AMD GPU like this one~ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202046&cm_re=r9_280x-_-14-202-046-_-Product
For $100 more, which blows away the 750ti ~ http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1041?vs=1130
Unless you dont plan to or care to game with more than mid level graphics. This is assuming you want a capable gaming PC. If gaming is not the main goal then the 750 will be just fine.
An SSD is IMO easier to add from the start. Even at the expense of adding an HDD later. Much much less of a pain in the ass to build the system with the OS on an SSD than doing it later.
After looking the 6 core cpu is only $10 more, so I would stick with it. $10 wont make or break a build. But saving $50+ on a motherboard like this one ~ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128627 And $30+ on a case like this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147153 will enable you to upgrade to a 280x over a 750ti, roughly doubling your GPU performance.
Just my opinion.
A "good deal" on SSDs usually means it is an inferior product that companies are trying to get out of their inventories.
Average SSD prices now are around $1 per 2GB. That means you can get a ~240GB SSD for around $120. If you're looking for a budget brand with solid performance, the Crucial MX100 series is perfect.
Installing a SSD when you build the system is a lot less of a headache than trying to migrate your OS and game files later. If you can't afford a 240GB SSD, a 120GB SSD is big enough for Windows and a few games.
The performance difference of a SSD is worth the investment. Windows loads very fast and is very responsive. No more booting your computer then walking away to get a cup of coffee. It is able to launch programs the minute you see the desktop, not 5 minutes later. As far as games go, you'll see improved loading times and possibly less hitching, depending on the game.
I removed the hd and added
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148820
Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
I'm pretty fond of the case I chose, I love big side windows in my cases that show all the shiny things inside
I'll check into that cheaper MB and the better GPU. Thanks for the suggestions!
Why are you looking to overclock? Is it because you want to overclock for the sake of overclocking, or do you just want to get the best performance available at a fixed price tag and think that overclocking is the way to get it?
Also, while you're right that overclocking means you shouldn't just grab the cheapest motherboard you can find, it doesn't mean you have to get a better chipset; that offers better CrossFire support, not better overclocking. Is the power circuitry on the motherboard you picked different from this one at all?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131873
Ah, I just saw that you're looking at an FX-6100. That's a mistake. The budget AMD processor to look at is the FX-6300, not 6100:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113286
It's only a few dollars more than the 6100, but it's a different die entirely and substantially better. The FX-6300 and FX-6350 are both Piledriver cores, while the FX-6100 is the old Bulldozer cores.
Ahh you're right, I assumed the 6100 was vishera as well. I definately want the 6300 then. Glad you caught that.
Now I'm looking at the fx 8320 eight-core... tempting, but will 2 more cores really make much difference? I wanna future proof as much as possible. It'll take more juice, so I might need to bump up the PS.
Not likely. Most games don't use four cores to their full potential. The increased core count in the latest generation of processors might push developers to use extra cores better, so you might see some gains in having six cores in the next five years. In all likelihood, though, I would bet on the next generation of CPUs providing better performance gains than increased core counts can provide.
For the budget you're trying to fit into, that's about the best system you can make. If I were in your position, I'd be happy with a $500 rig and wait two or three years for better technology. By that time, you should have $1000 saved up to buy a much better system and be able to use newer technology.
Another thing to consider is that consoles are using low-power AMD APUs which are equivalent to what you would find in a laptop. This means developers have a very limited amount of processing and graphics power to use. Over the next five years, we might not see PC hardware pushed as much because games designed for consoles won't be able to go anywhere near as far as PCs in terms of graphical quality and performance.
as someone who bought hundreds of those blue drives, i can tell you for sure they fail. get the wd black.
i look this wrecked because i've got GIST.
Whats your excuse?
http://deadmanrambling.com/
Just Saying™ ..
As someone who literally had 3 WD Blacks go bad in the span of 3 months, ditch Western Digital altogether. The first one was real bad, as I wasn't prepared and didn't have a backup system in place. I lost a lot of data (I know, my fault for no backup - I learned).
After research, I'm sticking with Seagate from here on out. They're way past their DOA era of a decade ago and are one of the top HD manufacturers out there. My opinion of course, based on information found online and personal experience.
In other words, as Quizzical said, you want to OC for the sake of OCing...
You are going to spend 276.91 USD just on MB+CPU+Cooler while for the same money you could get much better performance from i5.
Nonsense. While there might eventually be laptops with performance comparable to what the consoles offer, that's still a long way off. AMD's top laptop part has four cores; both the PS4 and Xbox One have eight. AMD's top laptop chip also has 8 GCN CUs; the Xbox One has 12 and the PS4 has 18, and both clock them higher than the laptop part, too. AMD's top laptop chip offers two channels of DDR3 memory; the PS4 has four channels of GDDR5 (okay, that's not coming to laptops ever), while the Xbox One has four channels of very high clocked DDR3 plus a 32 MB ESRAM cache.
As for the ability to easily scale to many CPU cores, OpenGL has it today, though it relies on extensions and is restricted to Nvidia Kepler and AMD GCN or later GPUs. Speaking of which, both the Xbox One and PS4 use GCN, so I'll bet they have their graphics APIs set to have not much CPU overhead in rendering. They certainly have the whole zero-copy easy transfer of data between the CPU and GPU--which will never come to discrete video cards.
Well yes, Seagate is one of the top hard drive vendors. Western Digital is the other of the top vendors. The only other hard drive vendor at all, whether one of the best or otherwise, is Toshiba.