Case: aerocool pgsv $60 Power supply: ocz fatality series 550 modular $75 Hard drive: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB $135 Mobo: ASrock 970 extreme4 $115 Ram: Gskill 1888 mhz 8gb(two 4 gb) $55 cpu: AMD FX 4170 4-Core Processor 4.2 ghz stock( I will probably overclock)$139 gpu: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 1GB Overclock $175 So what do you think?
I think you should not get a Bulldozer CPU, especially that one. They are not very good and are actually worse performers than Phenom II's. You have to clock the ridiculously high to even match them and the power consumption is higher also. I'm pretty sure it is in actual fact a dual core with two virtual cores rather than a fully fledged quad core aswell. Get a high end Phenom II or a 2500k (2500k would be better). Also get a 560ti or a HD6870.
If you must go with AMD get at least an FX-8120 (I'm using one right now). Otherwise, Intel procs are much better (you can think of the FX-4xxx being dual core with multithreading rather then quad core). Also, I'd buy a higher wattage power supply to go with that video card.
Building new computer Building a new computer sometime in the next couple of weeks. Lets have a bragging thread. here's some specs AS Rock 970 extreme4 motherboard 8gb of 1866 mhz ram AMD FX 4170 4-Core Processor 4.2ghz OCZ Vertex 3 60GB SSD Western Digital WD Black 1TB OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W Modular ASUS Radeon HD7770 DirectCU 1GB old crappy VGA dell monitor windows 7 ultimate and ubunto 12.04 Post your specs
