Building a gaming PC, need advice from you hardware experts

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disolitude said:
Lol...I really don't get why everyone is saying go intel?

Not everyone is spending $1000+ dollars on a PC. There should be a rule around here saying that people who haven't used AMD CPUs and tested games, shouldn't give CPU advice.

If you're building a rig under a 500-600 dollars, AMD FX processors are more than a viable option.
Something like the FX-6300 for $120 and an MSI G46 SLI/Crossfire motherboard for 80 bucks will beat anything Intel at same price range. Especially since you can overclock any AMD processor to 4.5 Ghz.

I'd personally try to stretch my budget to about $600 and I'd get:
FX6300 - $120
MSI G46 mobo - $80
8 GB of RAM - $70
Small 64 GB SSd for boot/1TB for storage - $100
Good brand name PSU - $50
GTX 660 - $180

These prices are what we have in Canada, don't know what its like where you live...

You can add another GTX 660 down the road when you have for SLI as long as you get a decent 600Watt PSU.

This. Fx 6300 on sale for 110 newegg. 8gb ram on sale for 55 newegg. G43 shoukd be fine (works great for me) can usually be had for 60.
Scratch the ssd for now. Still gotta buy windows for 90 dollars. Scratch the gtx 660 and get a gtx 650 ti for 140 newegg. Should be just over 550 dollars. Add a 35 dollar case and you are at 600. Cant get much cheaper than that.