Agree with you about the case, when I switched from desktop to mid-tower I wondered why I didn't do it before.

And gratz for your new PC, what a beast! 

Right now, not being ready for building a new PC myself (I'd go for mid-low cost and low power consumption as I always do, anyway), I just ordered a new HDD and a R7 250 with passive cooling, modest, but silent and it will run circles around my current on-board Radeon HD3300. Also, for a old PC it didn't make sense a more powerful one, and it's a sensible choice to increase performances and free some precious hundreds MB currently used by the on-board GPU besides its dedicated 128MB DDR3 sideport memory, as doubling from 4GB to 8GB DDR2 ECC main RAM would be very expensive and quite pointless, old and slow tech that would cost me like the new GPU, as it's out of production, actually I'd pay that RAM more than I did with the first 4GB that I bought when my fav online shop was doing special offers on Kingston products.

PS When I'll build my next PC, I'll go for AMD too, although I won't choose top absolute performances for the CPU, but top of the low-power consumption range.

Congratulations on your build, I'm sure it will give you many, many hours of great gaming.

Sorry about your damaged 8350. I remember when I build my first PC that the guy at the store where I bought my mobo and CPU told me that they could put the CPU on the socket for me. I actually thought about it for a sec, but I said no. I was like "If I'm building my PC, I'm building it, not anyone else. Even if that meant damaging something." Luckily everything went fine.

But I have to make it note. You went with the RED team (AMD) and choosed a RED case... and then you went with a blue motherboard?! Silly you, you should have gone with a Red/Black ASUS' Republic of Gamers mobo and red RAM sticks (Kingston or G.Skill) to make the build match.

Yeah the color matchup was a mess. I'm rusty at these things and didn't know that there's all sorts of different colors and LEDs nowadays.

I just bought the case with the color I wanted and then put the parts I wanted without knowing anything about LED lighting.

I fought all mothaboards were blue nowadays. At least all the models I considered were blue, even the ASUS ones (M5A99FX PRO and Sabertooth).

Do you mean I could have gotten a set up with all red colors including the LED lighting?

I know the F6300 will run almost all games just fine but it is overall not what I would put into a gaming pc. The overall performance of the PC(outside of gaming) will take a hit as well.

The CPU power will get more and more irrelevant with future improvements of the APIs that we're already seeing but still, I'd like to have some reserves.

I just don't like inefficient technology. That's why I called out the stupid PSU as well. But people here seem to think that CPU and GPU is the only thing that matters in a well build PC.

The Gigabyte Z87X is an amazing MOBA and is Red. I have one in my PC

Isn't that for Intel platorms only though? Or is that one available for AMD AM3+ sockets too?

Yea but the issue, and I continue to say this which you don't seem to understand, is that majority of the applications and games will still run better with the i5 which is even proven on your benchmarks. He spent almost 2k on his PC, he should have went with an i5 so that it can run better on most games instead of the ones that are just multi-threaded... If he was going a sub $1000 or $1200 build, sure, go amd, but above $1200 should be intel or at least the FX-8350 at minimum. And I respect Amd and my first gaming PC had an Amd Phenom II inside of it and I still use it to this day

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/699?vs=702