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Question

can i get an opinion on the parts i choose for a gaming pc

by RyleeRentschler Nov 20, 2012 6:41AM PST

these are the parts i choose
1 Case NZXT Phantom Full Tower Gaming Case - White
1 Processor ( AMD FX-8350 CPU (8x 4.00GHz/8MB L2 Cache
1 Processor Cooling ( Liquid CPU Cooling System [AMD] Standard 120mm Fan )
1 Memory ( 8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Corsair or Major Brand )
1 Video Card ( NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 - 2GB
1 Razer Arctosa Gaming Keyboard
1 Motherboard ( Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 -- AMD 970 )
1 Power Supply ( 750 Watt - Corsair CX750
1 Primary Hard Drive ( 120 GB Corsair Force Series GT SSD - Single Drive )
1 x Data Hard Drive ( 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive )
1 Optical Drive ( 24X Dual Format/Double Layer DVDRRW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black )
1 Flash Media Reader / Writer ( 12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer - Black )
1 Sound Card ( 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard )
1 Network Card ( Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100)
1 Operating System ( Windows 8

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Clarification Request

Why this choice?

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Nov 20, 2012 6:47AM PST

I'm sure you've read something like this.

"Our tests demonstrate fairly little difference between a $225 LGA 1155 Core i5-2500K and a $1000 LGA 2011 Core i7-3960X, even when three-way graphics card configurations are involved. It turns out that memory bandwidth and PCIe throughput don't hold back the performance of existing Sandy Bridge-based machines. "
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-4.html

It looks like a game machine so why not a cheaper quad core or i5 as noted and a better GPU from the next link?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html

Bob

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