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case-RAIDMAX Altas ATX-295WBP Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 500W Power Supply
motherboard- ASUS M5A97 AM3+ SB950 R
Graphics card- Evga gtx 550 t1
PSU- XION AXP-700K14XE 700W ATX SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80+ Bronze Modular Power Supply
RAM-G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
CPU-AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
HDD-Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EARX 1TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
is this a decent build for someone that is new to building pcs?
P.S. i was on a budget build on this.


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Questionable case and terrible PSU, GPU is a rip off considering a 6850 is cheaper and better, another PSU that's of the same quality, an AMD CPU that gets crushed by an i3-2100, and a slow HDD that will probably be a boot drive.

Scrap it, all of it.
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Generation wrote Questionable case and terrible PSU, GPU is a rip off considering a 6850 is cheaper and better, another PSU that's of the same quality, an AMD CPU that gets crushed by an i3-2100, and a slow HDD that will probably be a boot drive.

Scrap it, all of it.

well ty on the input i will be more thoughtful in the future when i build a better one.
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Generation wrote Questionable case and terrible PSU, GPU is a rip off considering a 6850 is cheaper and better, another PSU that's of the same quality, an AMD CPU that gets crushed by an i3-2100, and a slow HDD that will probably be a boot drive.

Scrap it, all of it.

well ty on the input i will be more thoughtful in the future when i build a better one.


Well what is your exact budget and main purpose of this build? I can make a build that'll be a lot better performance for the $ and be reliable.
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Generation wrote
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Generation wrote Questionable case and terrible PSU, GPU is a rip off considering a 6850 is cheaper and better, another PSU that's of the same quality, an AMD CPU that gets crushed by an i3-2100, and a slow HDD that will probably be a boot drive.

Scrap it, all of it.

well ty on the input i will be more thoughtful in the future when i build a better one.


Well what is your exact budget and main purpose of this build? I can make a build that'll be a lot better performance for the $ and be reliable.

my budget is 650$ and it is gaming
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About $10 over budget but it's worth choosing a 6870 over a 6850 considering the minimal price difference. This will smoke the rig you posted in gaming performance , reliability, and the ability to do future upgrades. Although if you're able to re-use your DVD drive and HDD, you'll save quite a bit of money that you can pocket for put towards another component.
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About $10 over budget but it's worth choosing a 6870 over a 6850 considering the minimal price difference. This will smoke the rig you posted in gaming performance , reliability, and the ability to do future upgrades. Although if you're able to re-use your DVD drive and HDD, you'll save quite a bit of money that you can pocket for put towards another component.

even though i picked 8gb of ram and a 1tb hdd?
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About $10 over budget but it's worth choosing a 6870 over a 6850 considering the minimal price difference. This will smoke the rig you posted in gaming performance , reliability, and the ability to do future upgrades. Although if you're able to re-use your DVD drive and HDD, you'll save quite a bit of money that you can pocket for put towards another component.

even though i picked 8gb of ram and a 1tb hdd?


If you open task manager whilst multi-tasking ( i.e gaming and playing media ) you'll see it usually hovers around 2gb's and making anything over 4 useless and a waste of money unless you want to buy it just to buy it which a lot of people do. If a whole 500gb primary HDD isn't enough, you can grab a 1tb Seagate for $30 more if you really need it. But trust me when I say the build I listed is unbelievably better than some cheesy PSU and an FX fail CPU.
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Never use the Bulldozer series by AMD.
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Runite wrote Never use the Bulldozer series by AMD.

ok i bought the items a few days ago. should i return the items and start from scratch?
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