Hey folks, you were all helpful with advice on my last pc build so i'm here again. this is my current cart: http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=24000192 any advice on the build is much welcomed, and I want to again make sure i didn't make any fundamental flaws in gpu/mb/cpu/power combination. i'm fairly certain everything will work together but i'd feel far more confident hearing it from someone else.

as always, suggestions for changes is welcome, also to note that the HD on the list is going to be a secondary, i already have an SSD 128GB Vertex 2 drive i'm tossing into it.

edit: also note i do specifically want an amd gpu, as i have a nvidia, and intel gpu in two other computers, so having an amd would help me round out my testing suite.

There's a big problem here. LGA1155 and LGA1150 are not compatible, so that CPU will not fit into the motherboard socket.

For the disk, I would personally recommend buying two 1TB ones instead of a single 2TB disk, simply because they can both read and write at the same time instead of a single drive grinding down to a halt completely while copying a bunch of files to or from another one (for instance your external hard drive) or generally doing I/O intensive work. Plus that way you don't put all your eggs in the same basket. Though I don't know what use you are going to make of the SSD, so that might not be necessary.

I hope you know the PSU is oversized. Way oversized. Unless you're planning for some future upgrading. I don't know how Cougar power PSU cope with this load, but I'm rather sure a 600W Corsair would already have quite a margin. I suspect, a good 450W PSU might be able to power this with little trouble.

-Windows 8 is marketing-crap.

-Buy a high-quality power-supply.

-You could toss more money on CPU ( = i5-3570), and less on GPU.(you could buy a used one, its not like buying an used HDD.)

There's a big problem here. LGA1155 and LGA1150 are not compatible, so that CPU will not fit into the motherboard socket.

For the disk, I would personally recommend buying two 1TB ones instead of a single 2TB disk, simply because they can both read and write at the same time instead of a single drive grinding down to a halt completely while copying a bunch of files to or from another one (for instance your external hard drive) or generally doing I/O intensive work. Plus that way you don't put all your eggs in the same basket. Though I don't know what use you are going to make of the SSD, so that might not be necessary.

o man, thanks! i didn't even notice that, it would have been a costly mistake. as for the HD, i don't suspect i'm going to see that issue play too heavily, my primarly used games/apps will be on the ssd, so it'll act mostly as a backup drive more than anything. personally, i'm thinking of just getting a 1TB drive, as 2TB is probably overkill.

I hope you know the PSU is oversized. Way oversized. Unless you're planning for some future upgrading. I don't know how Cougar power PSU cope with this load, but I'm rather sure a 600W Corsair would already have quite a margin. I suspect, a good 450W PSU might be able to power this with little trouble.

The gpu alone calls for 500W, and the cpu(with the modification), is ~90W. so it'd fit into a 600W nicely, but i do plan to upgrade in the future, so i figured i'd save myself the trouble of having to potentially buy a new power supply later.

-Windows 8 is marketing-crap.
-Buy a high-quality power-supply.
-You could toss more money on CPU ( = i5-3570), and less on GPU.(you could buy a used one, its not like buying an used HDD.)

Yes, you don't like windows 8, not everyone agrees with you so please keep your personal views on that subject out of this thread. how do you recommend going about find a used gpu? ebay type of sites, or through something like amazon's 3rd party sellers?

AFAIK usually the GPU power recommendation includes everything else in it, because the GPU tends to be the biggest power hog so usually one chooses the PSU based on the GPU.

With little more searching you can probably find how much the GPU itself actually needs, which will probably be around 300 W or so at the peak power use.

PCIe power connectors allows for a maximum of 300W.

Only the Asus Mars and that kind of 1k USD multi GPU cards even reach that kind of consumption.

For comparison, a GTX680 consumes exactly like my GTX560 Ti, 170 watts. Probably that AMD is around those values.

Yes, you don't like windows 8, not everyone agrees with you so please keep your personal views on that subject out of this thread. how do you recommend going about find a used gpu? ebay type of sites, or through something like amazon's 3rd party sellers?

I'm not sure (as in really not sure) if he was trying to bash Windows 8 or just bashing the whole "Windows 8 compatible" stamps on some components as marketing crap. The latter may be somewhat motivated.

Ebay and Amazon are not popular in the country I live so I cant tell much about them. I bought my GPU on something like EBay but local. Its a veteran 8800GTX, I bought it as a temporary one for 30eur or less:) but it works perfectly. My monitor was also a used one and its fine. (Dont save money on the motherboard and power-supply though)

Yes, you don't like windows 8, not everyone agrees with you so please keep your personal views on that subject out of this thread. how do you recommend going about find a used gpu? ebay type of sites, or through something like amazon's 3rd party sellers?

I'm not sure (as in really not sure) if he was trying to bash Windows 8 or just bashing the whole "Windows 8 compatible" stamps on some components as marketing crap. The latter may be somewhat motivated.

I dont see windows 8 as a better system than 7. There was lot of hype around it but for nothing basically. And he is right, it doesnt belong to this thread.