I have very bad experience with intel motherboards and very great with asus. But it is your pc so i don't have to wory about it.
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actually tech Asus makes some wicked good Motherboards for Intel. Im currently looking into building myself a gaming rig and have put back about $1,500 for it. Have not started ordering parts yet as im just shopping around a bit and researching. Will most likely start buying near Black Friday when I can get things a lot cheaper. Just as an example here is the Asus motherboard im looking at probably getting for my rig, Expensive but so worth it as your motherboard is very important: it runs about $224 currently but with a 5 year warranty, the amazing features and quality of the product that will last a very very long time (it is military grade hardware) I believe it is well worth the investment for me However I am also looking at possibly going with the new AMD 8 core processor line but not quite sure between the two yet.
Do you mean the AMD FX-8150? If so I should defintly stick with Intel if I where you. That CPU really isn't as good as it looks like.
So finished my PC build today, here is the finished product: ~~~~~Case: Corsair Carbide Series 500R Atx Mid tower - $129.99http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139009PSU: PC Power and Cooling Silencer MK III 600W Modular 80PLUS Bronze Power Supply - $89.99http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703036MOBO: ASUS P8Z77-V LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard - $179.99http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131820CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I53570K - $229.99http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Low Profile Desktop Memory Model CML8GX3M2A1600C9 - $54.99http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233186GPU: EVGA 01G-P3-1460-KR GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - $179.99http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130660Heatsink: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO RR-212E-20PK-R2 Continuous Direct Contact 120mm Sleeve CPU Cooler- $34.99http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - $119.99http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533Dvd/CD drive: ASUS 24X DVD Burner - Bulk 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS - OEM - $19.99http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204Window 7 64-bit OEM,
PC Monitor Specs are: Case - Fractal Design Define R3 with 2 extra Artic Cooling F12 fans CPU - AMD Phenom II X3 720 BE @ 2.8GHz (unlocked to X4 20, @ 3.3GHz) Cooler - Xigmatek Aegir GPU - 2 x PowerColor HD6950 1GB GDD5 MotherBoard - ASRock 890FX Deluxe 5 HDD - Samsung Ecogreen F2 1.5TB HD154UI SSD - Corsair Force 3 120Gb RAM - Kingston HyperX PNP 4x4Gb @ 1600MHz PSU - Cooler Master Silent Pro M1000 Monitor - Acer TFT H233HAbmid 23" Speakers - Hercules 5.1 70 XPS slim Mouse - Trust Predator "Laser Gamer Mouse Elite" GM-4800 Keyboard - Labtec standard keyboard plus The black box is my external HDD enclosure.
Bumped! Lets see some more setup pictures =D My new setup: PS3 is hooked to the TV also. COMPUTER SPECS: CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 AM3 3.4Ghz 512KB 45NM 125W 4000MHZ GPU: Sapphire Radeon Vapor-X HD 7770 Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8 GB ( 2 x 4 GB ) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) 240-Pin DDR3 PSU: Antec VP-450 450 Watt Energy Star Certified HARD DRIVE: Seagate Barracuda 500 GB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 16MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive CASE: NZXT Technologies Source 210 Computer Case (Black)
PC: Spoiler (Move your mouse to the spoiler area to reveal the content) Show Spoiler Hide Spoiler Config: i7 920 @3.5GHZ 24gb ddr3 1333mhz ram (6x4gb - kingstom) 256gb SSD 4x 1tb HDD in raid 10 Asus rampage II extreme mobo EVGA gtx 680 classified Corsair HX1000W PSU Corsair HC100 watercooler .... I'll still poke those green lights sometime. They are very bright at night (_( And for ps3/xbox: (Yes, my room is a mess lol) Spoiler (Move your mouse to the spoiler area to reveal the content) Show Spoiler Hide Spoiler I use the 5.1 setup for gaming sometimes, but the headset is better for FPS imo
HP Pavilion dv6 - not even a year old. 6GB DDR3 - might upgrade to 8 soon External monitor, placed on a shoe box to raise it more This is basically a desktop replacement, but still a laptop in case I need to take it somewhere.
