Pretty nice spec PC. I'd give it 8 or 9/10.

Not bad apart from the fact you don't have a PSU.

Note wrote Not bad apart from the fact you don't have a PSU.

hahaha forgot to add that in will do now

Why are you running such a low wattage PSU? Spend $80 and futureproof it (a little). Its worth it when you try to upgrade and you have extra watts

-TTGxPr0M0dz wrote Why are you running such a low wattage PSU? Spend $80 and futureproof it (a little). Its worth it when you try to upgrade and you have extra watts

''future-proofing'' - what exactly is that? More specifically, how is it connected to power supplies? Because the world I live in, computer hardware components, ESPECIALLY video cards are getting extremely power efficient and require less and less power every generation or so. A quality 550w unit as listed above is way more than enough for a build like this and I guarantee it'll be the same for the future. The only time you'd need more than a 500 - 600w unit is when you're running multiple video cards and a power hungry CPU like a 3970x for example. Any single GPU system WILL run off of a quality lower wattage PSU just fine.

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-TTGxPr0M0dz wrote Why are you running such a low wattage PSU? Spend $80 and futureproof it (a little). Its worth it when you try to upgrade and you have extra watts

''future-proofing'' - what exactly is that? More specifically, how is it connected to power supplies? Because the world I live in, computer hardware components, ESPECIALLY video cards are getting extremely power efficient and require less and less power every generation or so. A quality 550w unit as listed above is way more than enough for a build like this and I guarantee it'll be the same for the future. The only time you'd need more than a 500 - 600w unit is when you're running multiple video cards and a power hungry CPU like a 3970x for example. Any single GPU system WILL run off of a quality lower wattage PSU just fine.

Future proofing basically just means that you buy something better for a little bit more money now, so that you don't have to buy one later. If a cpu take about a hundred watts, and a video card needs about 200, then you're already half way there. If you push too hard and your psu sags, out goes your pc.

That's not totally correct, as future proofing would be to buy a CPU as soon as it comes out so you don't have to replace it for a few years. Buying a higher watt PSU for no reason in my opinon is silly, seeing as its arguably the most important component in the system and one can wear out its capacitors within certain time frames.

As for the build i'd give it a 6. (5 being good, anything below bad.) Only because that mobo or CPU aren't able to be OC'ed and the storage is a little low and we don't know the brand of that 7870.

i would give it 8/10, if you had an 3570k and a better case like a corsair 600t and a closed loop cooler and maybe an ssd

I would rate that at a 8/10.