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IMHO, if you're going to go with a GTX970, you should go with an i5 CPU, there's no real point in going with the A10 with a dedicated GPU.

A10... I would like to get my hands on that! I have fx8350.
if you going for A10 go for amd gpu... I read somewhere in the net that they do well with each other.

I'd go for the i5 and a small SSD for the system partition. PSU looks like a bit of an overkill. Could save on that.

You won't do yourself a favor with that configuration. The A10 is slow as hell, definitely go with the i5. Aside from that, if you're going to get it in september, you might wanna watch out for Intel's Skylake CPUs, coming out sometime later this year (although they might be delayed for october) - in any case, they will get you a little more performance for the same money as current i5 CPUs. Also DDR4 RAM on those.

8GB RAM is just fine, the power supply isn't all that great, also too big. Go with something between 450 - 600W, that's more than enough for a PC consuming less than 300 Watts under full load.

As for the SSHD, do youself a favor and go for a real SSD, since SSHDs don't help much and are rather defect-prone.

Also, I don't see the value of $1200 in it. From what I've gathered the build you've mentioned should cost around $900 - $1000 (Netherlands isn't that expensive regarding hardware I hope), so I hope you're not planning to spend $200 on the motherboard. Something decent around the $100 mark will absolutely do, since bigger boards won't net you anything, except for a higher risk to break down (More components = more shit that can be broken)

Only an A10? :O was better to go for a fx8350 or next gen of i5...

Same Tower as me, mine is black tough...
See you have some experience with pcs, or you got some nice help, since buying 8GB dual channel is way better than only 1 8GB.
for hard disk i would recommend you to buy a 128/256 ssd for windows and some of your most played games (steam for example) and a 1TB HD for the rest, its up to you if you have heavy files like me or not...
i already saw someone saying and its right, if you go for AMD go full AMD, i prefer intel tough...
But you have a good set ^^ i bought my Gaming computer this year, and it costed me 1600€+/- but it is worth way more than that(between 2500 and 3000), i got a personal discount for building 2 gaming computers ^^
You should be able to play almost every game with your set, i didn't found yet a game to test my PC ^^

Oh, and about the whitelist, its indifferent to me if you whitelist me or not, i'm just here to help ya... PEACE

I won't go for AMD, Intel i5 all the way :)

If you're set on the 970, get the i5.
The A10 is a Fusion APU, meaning it has some mid-grade GPU cores built on to the same chip as the CPU (Effectively giving 'integrated' graphics actual dedicated GPU cores on a single chip). AMD Dedicated GPUs can work with those via Hybrid Crossfire-X, using the GPU cores on the APU chip as if they were a second graphics card, but you cannot do that when using an nvidia card since SLI won't support it.

Realistically, while I do still like AMD processors for low to mid-grade machines, the i5s are better, and would likely be a much better choice for a gaming rig. The only way that would possibly even out on gaming performance is if you did go with an AMD GPU instead and use the APU in Hybrid Crossfire, but as with all multi-GPU setups that will have its own potential issues such as micro-stutter.

Also, regarding your PSU, I suggest you not buy a Corsair PSU. The good Corsair PSUs are typically manufactured by Seasonic, while those not done by them have hardware failures more frequently. Generally, buying a straight Seasonic PSU without some additional brand name attached comes cheaper, and you won't have to try to research whether the specific model is actually manufactured by them or not. You may want to consider buying a Seasonic 650W instead, and hopefully save a bit with a more reliable PSU.

You also may want to consider going for 16GB instead of 8GB of RAM. Many people will say that 8GB is sufficient currently, and that is mostly accurate. However, a number of new games are starting to suck up a full 8GB, and more will do so in the near future. Since you have not yet built this system, it would be worthwhile to consider not what is adequate now, but rather what will be a reasonable requirement a year from now. My advice would be to go 16GB and save yourself from having to upgrade so soon after the initial build.

I would also suggest that you look into a dedicated system drive as well. It doesn't have to be an SSD, though those make fantastic system drives of course. It's an often overlooked part of how computers work - A standard HDD, or even an SSHD hybrid drive, the main hard disk component consists of multiple magnetic platters which a single arm per platter is responsible to read. Accessing multiple things concurrently from a hard disk is limited to its maximum read speed, so when you are both loading large numbers of game files, and having the OS running concurrently from the same drive, it slows down both as they are competing for read cycles on the drive. This not only increases your loading times, but it increases the time necessary for the connected bits of files to be found and offloaded to RAM to run as instructions to the CPU for processing. Simply adding in a smaller extra HD for your OS can help your computer run faster, as well as preventing single point of failure issues.

That said, either way you go will likely be a nice machine, and you should enjoy it after working hard for it. Hopefully I helped a bit in explaining things, and I wish you the best of luck! :D

then you need to make a gif of him and make it viral :D

Yeah, 16gb ^^

It's not that I never entered, but I haven't entered for over 2 years.

of course, of course...

me sad, me now cwy :(

the gpu you have is great, maybe I'd invest a lil more on the cpu :)