Put my job app in today and am gonna be putting the money into a gaming pc these are the specs I picked outid like your feedback on whether this is a good combination or not also some tip on how to go about installing/building don wanna destroy a 380$ gpu Here's the list:Saber tooth 990fx motherboard 180$Amd Hd 6970 gpu 350$Bulldozer amd fx 8150 CPU 200$EK Gigabyte 990fx water-block (cooling system). ? ?85$G.Skill ripjaw x series 8gb ddr3 ram 45$Asus ve228h monitor. ? ?145$Corsair hx750 psu ? ? ? ?145$Approx. 1150$ without tax on a side not is that too much wattage for the psu
Bulldozer CPUs aren't the best for the price. Even though they have a higher clock speed and more cores Intel i5s and i7s are better. Or if you want to stay AMD the Phenom II x4 965 is really good for the price.
The PSU would be fine. However, I would strongly encourage you not to pick up a Bulldozer for gaming. You can get a Core i5 for cheaper, and it will be much better for gaming. Bulldozer's 8 core technology is truly designed for servers. The bulldozer architecture lends itself to completing multiple tasks simultaneously. While also good for multi-core intensive tasks (like encoding/decoding), you would not see any benefit in most video games due to poor (or no) utilization of multiple cores. It's also worth pointing out, Intel and AMD's clock speeds are not directly comparable because Intel uses a smaller processor architecture resulting in more processes completing per cycle (in a cycle, the electrical signals travel less distance in an Intel processor's logical core, allowing the instruction to finish faster). This makes Intels the preferable choice for applications that aren't efficient at utilizing multiple cores, but still require lots of raw data processing power (which is precisely what most games demand). You can pick up a Core i5 Sandy or Ivy bridge for $200 or less, making AMD's typical price advantages non-existant in the case. The Intel will draw less power, run cooler, and perform better in games, and cost exactly the same or less. There's no comparison, a Core i5 is better than a Bulldozer for gaming hands down.
