Building my first PC
 

Hey guys, i'm in the starting deliberations of building my first personal rig, and was wondering if there's anyone around tech savvy enough to tell me if i'm doing it right. thanks for reading, below is the list of all the gear i've had an eye for so far.

thanks!

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Piffen is almost level 54 btw...just sayin!

Why are you going AMD?
Why are you going with Windows 8?
Lose the Rosewill PSU and go with an Antec, Corsair, or similar.

Spend a little more money, and get something a whole lot better:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116782 is 50 bucks more
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157314 is 20 bucks more
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817371016 is 10 bucks more

80 bucks more and vastly superior.

Ditch the warranties.

If you go with AMD, get a Vishera. 4g 8 core is only 199.99. Not sure if price is a big concern, but you would also need to get a better board :x


edit- I also do not see a cpu cooler on your list. You will want something better than a stock cooler for AMD.

The i5 is 20 to 50% faster than the 5800k, depending on application.
The Vishera is in a similar boat to the 5800k, unless you are doing highly multithreaded applications that are very efficient in their multithreaded capabilities. Neither of these choices are reasonable for what appears to be a budget gaming computer.

Are all the Windows 8 deals done with - is it really $99 for a license now? =/
Tomshardware.com will have charts if you're interested in comparing performance between AMD & Intel. I see what these guys here are saying, but if you're playing *mostly* P99 for your gaming habit then I think you'll be fine.

I'd recommend a small (<120GB) SSD for your primary drive, but that might be beyond your budget. I use them in my home PC & work laptop, and it's rough to work with anything less once you've used one.

Just google'd this - if you know someone who bought a Win7 PC between June last year and until the end of this month, you can score a really cheap Win8 key. (assuming they could care less about Win8) www.windowsupg8adeoffer.com/

I can play p99 on a laptop with integrated intel graphics on a low speed (2.4ghz) i5 at 1366x768.

If all he plays is p99, theres no need to get a new computer at all. It was designed to run on pII 450's and a vodoo 3 card with 256mb of ram and an ata33 hard drive.

The amd 7770 he's looking at is a reasonably good video card. To feed it well, he should go with the i5.

/agree. Newegg has had some great Corsair deals recently, if your not seeing one atm I would suggest to keep looking. Rosewill psu's trash imo

Also, listen to the Nilbog. If you go AMD, ya better cool it with more than stock fan.