With what your cousin is doing, then the second build is good. Also considering that Sanctorum is one of the most knowledge-able in this forum.

Pools wrote Posted this monday night, didn't get to look at it yesterday, and came back to it now, thurday, 1am here, and theres 38 comments! Was like, oh fantastic. Read through them, and was like, mmm, ook, oh goodness... Haha. Lots of argueing, but some useful information. So there were three builds listed, first one caused all the "debate", the [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] and [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] both seem fair. I think i am kinda digging Sanctorum's build a little more though, for a couple reasons, one being it like he said, not using money on a low gpu which will eventually be replaced, and leaving it open for expanding when he saves more money or w/e. Also, im not sure the exact dollar amount he has, but that is probably pretty close to the ceiling, but would it be beneficial to swap out for a small ssd rather? I sent him a text to see exactly what games he plays, because if its just one or two, would imagine could fit them on the ssd. Only reason im saying that, is because i remember when i first switched to ssd, was like day and night.
But what do yall say, lock in on [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] ?
Btw thanks all, read through all of them, even the arguments :b

Absolutely go with Sanctorum's build.... He knows his shit better than any of us that have been posting on here

Thanks boys, knew i could count on yall. He'll wake up to a pcpartlist in the morning :B

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If you want an SSD instead of an HDD. 120GB is pretty minimal though, it'd be worth spending the extra $30 for this;
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Not only does the 7700k out-perform the G3258 as a CPU, but it also out-performs both the GT 610 and GT 730, so is a better choice. With the 7700k, you can also save around $100 and add something like a 260x in XFire, or save up for a higher end GPU if you'd prefer.

Reading this thread, all the BS is like...
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this thread has gone to shit. now stahhpp