Also noticed the case doesn't have fan filters? I dislikes dust on my pretty hardware. :(
As for the GPU, drop the 270X and get a Radeon 7870 instead, they're pretty much *exactly* the same, just save yourself 10-20 bucks.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202025
Some improvements I would suggest to look into is a decent cooler for that CPU, get some fan filters, throw a couple of 120mm fans in the front.
Especially the CPU cooler, AMD coolers are loud when things warm up.
And get an SSD, even an SSD cache drive. :)
And lastly, is that 4 sticks of Ram I see? Why didn't you go with 2x 8gb kit? Could have allowed you to expand to 32Gb in the future if the need ever arose.
Otherwise, good budget rig.
Snesboy said:
Monitor is 1440x900. As for settings, StarCraft 2 defaulted to extreme and I still got 20 FPS in the late game in a 4v4. The AMD FX CPU is a beast. |
Well. An Intel Haswell Dual-Core will beat the FX in StarCraft 2, but overclock the FX and you will pull better frames.
You *should* also be able to do 4ghz on stock volts rather easy, my first gen FX can do 4.2ghz on stock volts.
Also, don't forget the hotfix, can give a small free performance boost.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2646060
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2645594
You can also get a 10-15% IPC increase just by overclocking the NB in StarCraft 2 aswell, food for thought.
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