lawll - that was a test build i made on newegg with 'some' research.
250GB SSD, I don't "need" 250GB but I'd like to fit most of my shit on the main drive and leave that 20-30% they recommend on SSD's.
FoxxHound - ???
I looked at the AMD budget builds more and more, and decided I'd rather go with a higher budget to accommodate a quality i5 3570k CPU, and the newly released GTX 760. For me looking at the longview, the AMD cpu really draws a lot of extra power, and most games I play would take advantage of the i5's superior single thread performance, and since it has 4 real cores, that's pretty impressive to me. I also like the lower power draw, paired with a nice cooler, that CPU should last me a good long while.
Motherboard, I really like the gigabyte durable 4-5 series, and the sabertooth line from asus. And no, I don't like the asus line because of the fucking plastic pads, they use solid caps and good materials for the choke points and cooling solutions. I wish I could find some good reviews comparing Gigabyte Durable level 4 and 5 mobo to Asus sabertooth line from a reliability standpoint as opposed to 'features'. As long as it has a couple usb 3.0 ports and an excellent network interface I can deal without having 20 sata 3 connectors and all the other shit I'll never use.
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