tax time build selection tell me what ya think

[MotorCityFats13]

I'm a little late to this thread... Not sure if you've made the purchase yet or not. I wouldn't recommend going with AMD until they release their new Zen line-up. The FX8000/9000 series is a very old architecture compared to what Intel offers, the chipset is even older... You get a lot more for your money going with an Intel set-up.

I would recommend this build

Motherboard:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130779

Processor:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117446

Video Card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487093

Power Supply:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151118

Biggest part of going with a new PC right now is loading your operating system on a solid state hard drive. I would recommend something like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W02CZ2241

so you would recommend the i3 over the i5 for a gaming rig? I was under the impression that the i3 falls on its face with gaming.... Im trying to pick parts out for a mid budget gaming rig for my brother and was trying to stay clear of the i3's but if its a working combo I would redo his list.... all the i7 chips look out of his price range also.... he already bought a MB so I have to work with what he has... 1150 socket

A little while back I was building a second PC, I was curious how my system would work with the i3 4370 on my GTX 980. I noticed very little difference between the two when I was gaming compared to my i7 4790K. FPS was nearly identical.

that gfx card is pretty high end for his budget but its interesting while gaming that a chip at more than half the cost will hang... ill be using this info on building his rig for sure

[-Stov3top-]

The only prob you might run into with running the i3 processor with one of the higher end video cards would be some bottlenecking, but you wouldn't prob notice a huge difference unless you went to sli. I have a pair of GTX760's in my sons rig running off one of the older Core 2 Extreme QX6850's and it runs great. Having a good SSD to run your games off of is a must, and at least 8gb of some decent ram.

I would check these guys out for what you are looking for here: http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntk=all&N=4294966937+4294869682+4294866365&myStore=false

[RainStryke]

The only prob you might run into with running the i3 processor with one of the higher end video cards would be some bottlenecking, but you wouldn't prob notice a huge difference unless you went to sli. I have a pair of GTX760's in my sons rig running off one of the older Core 2 Extreme QX6850's and it runs great. Having a good SSD to run your games off of is a must, and at least 8gb of some decent ram.

I would check these guys out for what you are looking for here: http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntk=all&N=4294966937+4294869682+4294866365&myStore=false

That would be true if you were talking about a first generation i3 500 series processor, but anything Ivy bridge or newer is not going to bottleneck even a GTX 980Ti. The trick is to get fast RAM to pair with it. G.Skill has some awesome DDR3 2400MHz RAM with CAS10 latency, which made a HUGE difference on my processors gaming performance.

[-Stov3top-]

The only prob you might run into with running the i3 processor with one of the higher end video cards would be some bottlenecking, but you wouldn't prob notice a huge difference unless you went to sli. I have a pair of GTX760's in my sons rig running off one of the older Core 2 Extreme QX6850's and it runs great. Having a good SSD to run your games off of is a must, and at least 8gb of some decent ram.

I would check these guys out for what you are looking for here: http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntk=all&N=4294966937+4294869682+4294866365&myStore=false

That would be true if you were talking about a first generation i3 500 series processor, but anything Ivy bridge or newer is not going to bottleneck even a GTX 980Ti. The trick is to get fast RAM to pair with it. G.Skill has some awesome DDR3 2400MHz RAM with CAS10 latency, which made a HUGE difference on my processors gaming performance.

I was just saying worst case scenario, like I said I barely notice any difference with the QX6850 running the 760's in sli.