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Case: Thermaltake Level 10 Series Level 10 GTS Snow Edition White (4 Thermaltake 120mm fans 3/4 are blue LED)
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD5
CPU/Processor: AMD FX-8320 Vishera 4.0 Ghz Turbo (Cooled by- Thermaltake WATER2.0 Pro)
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB), G.SKILL Value 8GB (1 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3. (For those who can count, that is 24GB in total.)
SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache
Optical Drives: LITE-ON 12x BluRay, LITE-ON 24x writer
Video Cards: HIS iCooler Radeon HD 7770 and XFX CORE Edition Radeon HD 7770 (Crossfire)
Power: Thermaltake SMART M Series 750 Watt
Human Interface: Keyboard= RAZER Blackwidow Ultimate 2013, Mouse= RAZER DeathAdder, Headset= RAZER BlackShark
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD5
CPU/Processor: AMD FX-8320 Vishera 4.0 Ghz Turbo (Cooled by- Thermaltake WATER2.0 Pro)
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB), G.SKILL Value 8GB (1 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3. (For those who can count, that is 24GB in total.)
SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache
Optical Drives: LITE-ON 12x BluRay, LITE-ON 24x writer
Video Cards: HIS iCooler Radeon HD 7770 and XFX CORE Edition Radeon HD 7770 (Crossfire)
Power: Thermaltake SMART M Series 750 Watt
Human Interface: Keyboard= RAZER Blackwidow Ultimate 2013, Mouse= RAZER DeathAdder, Headset= RAZER BlackShark
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Ugly riced out case that looks like a demo unit for a kids play toy.
Mix matched RAM - AM3+ boards are optimized for dual channel memory. On top of that, you'll never use that much RAM to its fullest extent.
OCZ SSD over far more reputable Intel / Samsung / Crucial / Plextor / even Mushkin.
Cross-firing low end video cards off of the bat is a stupid idea, especially for a budget like this. Consumes more power, takes up an extra PCIE slot, more space, more heat generated, and the performance is sub par. You could of got one strong video card that is way better in almost every single way. If you're going to SLI / C/F right off the start, getting anything lower than a GTX 670 / 680 or 7970's is simply a bad choice.
Thermaltake PSU's should be avoided in general since the majority of them are just, well, crap and they overshadow the half decent ones. You could of got a 650w Rosewill unit which is way more than enough to power this build + some snazzy all black cable extensions so the guts of the build would look pretty good.
Overpriced and underpowered closed loop water cooling unit. A Noctua NH D14 / Phanteks destroy it.
Besides the mediocre mouse, the Razer peripherals are generally sub par and bad value. I've seen the Blackwidow in person and I was not impressed, more specifically because of the price.
3/10. Try again.
Mix matched RAM - AM3+ boards are optimized for dual channel memory. On top of that, you'll never use that much RAM to its fullest extent.
OCZ SSD over far more reputable Intel / Samsung / Crucial / Plextor / even Mushkin.
Cross-firing low end video cards off of the bat is a stupid idea, especially for a budget like this. Consumes more power, takes up an extra PCIE slot, more space, more heat generated, and the performance is sub par. You could of got one strong video card that is way better in almost every single way. If you're going to SLI / C/F right off the start, getting anything lower than a GTX 670 / 680 or 7970's is simply a bad choice.
Thermaltake PSU's should be avoided in general since the majority of them are just, well, crap and they overshadow the half decent ones. You could of got a 650w Rosewill unit which is way more than enough to power this build + some snazzy all black cable extensions so the guts of the build would look pretty good.
Overpriced and underpowered closed loop water cooling unit. A Noctua NH D14 / Phanteks destroy it.
Besides the mediocre mouse, the Razer peripherals are generally sub par and bad value. I've seen the Blackwidow in person and I was not impressed, more specifically because of the price.
3/10. Try again.
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