Is this a good pc build?

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Not for me D:

Just one question - why are people picking so expensive cases?

Nope, go for a i5 2500K and a p67 motherboard 1156 socket

Two copies of Deus Ex.

no eight cores are bad i would go with phenom or a i5 2500K or i7

if it were me i'd say this is a pretty great build, but i'd go with a 2TB harddrive, 500GB just isn't enough. and i would also get an aftermarket cpu cooler so that you can overclock the cpus to take advantage of having multicores

You should take a Phenom II x4 975 BE instead of Bulldozer because it is cheaper and better. Check this!

(Sorry but I don't know how to do clickable links!)

Edit: Fixed

With that budget, you'd get better performance and spend less on a 2500k build. Get a 2500k and some cheap(in price) mobo like the Asrock Extreme3 Gen3, can CF/SLI and has all the main features you'd want/need. Would be cheaper and perform better than that build.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=434

Also, you could look into a 7850, they should be ~ the same price as a 6950, and perform better while using less power.

Your PC build is a frog?

My opinion:

• The graphics card is nice, but I'm not sure than 2GB of video ram is better than the faster card (5870). I'm the owner of HIS 5870, and so far that's the best part in the PC i have (and I don't regret it).
• SSDs are nice, but you must be aware that the OS takes about 20GB alone, and there are few games that truly benefit from the SSD. (Though there are future improvements for SSDs in Win8)
• I don't know about the newest AMD, but aren't Intels a better choice performance wise, since the i7/i5 improvements? However, as far as games goes, the speed on the CPU is welcome (therefore the 3.6GHz isn't an overkill - especially with crappy console ports - GTA4 was an example of using RAM, VRAM and CPU more than the shaders)
• The PSU of 750W is more than enough. I went with 500W, and everything is working smooth on the HD 5870 + i5-760, but I was certain that I won't upgrade to Crossfire in future with my configuration (so didn't need the overhead)
• 8GB ram is more than enough for the games alone (lots of games doesn't even support over 2GB ram, let alone use it), so 8GB gives you a lot overhead for a while, so you won't have to worry about the memory usage even when running few ram-intensive tasks at once (game + game on background + browser + minecraft server for example :)). You can go with 4GB though and upgrade it to 8GB when you feel you need it.
• 500GB is quite low, I'd go with 2TB (for me even this is a low). I know the prices of HDD are still high, but you will probably need it.

Overall, I have a similar PC I've build a year ago, and it's serving me well (running on 1920x1080).

• HIS HD 5870
• Intel i5-760
• OCZ Vertex 2 100GB
• WD Caviar 2TB
• 2x2 GB G.Skill Eco 1600Mhz, CL7 (low voltage)
• Cooler Master CM 690 Advanced II (I've really liked this case :P)

The board is ASUS with USB3 and SATA3 support (HDD is running on the SATA3, just because I could, but I regret of not buying an SATA3 SSD :/) - haven't used USB3 yet. The board support only a limited crossfire (x16 + x8), but since I didn't planned to ever go Crossfire with this setting, I took a HD 5870 and just 500W PSU + cheaper board without the dual x16 for Crossfire.

EDIT: About the RAM, I was forced to use the 2GB for a long while, because one ram was faulty, and i was delaying with ordering a new pieces. As far as games goes, it was fine with 2GB ram running Win7 Pro x64, but it didn't had any more ram for Chrome (which is a ram clogger - same as other modern browsers anyway). Not to mention of having trouble running Minecraft and server at once, without the out of ram error, but single-tasking always was fine. Now I'm having 4GB of ram and 2GB spare from the old faulty rams (this one was working fine), but I didn't even bothered with going to 6GB now, since I don't need it.
I'm not doing any video editing or 3d graphic modelling or similar tasks - only gaming.

An opinion from a pc shopkeeper:

• 6950 is outdated since 7xxx series came out last month; i'd go with 7850 - same price, same performance, 70W less power consumption, less heat and more future-proof. You can also look on Geforce GTX 570, depends what you want and need. For eyefinity (gaming on more screens) and raw power: go for AMD; for CUDA and PhysX: go for Nvidia.
• Bulldozer is a disaster, so rather go for Intel i5 2500k and any Z68 mainboard - benchmark; you can also go for i7 2600k, but the 5-10% performance increase in games isn't worth the higher price
• never...really..NEVER buy an OCZ SSD, except if you're Chuck Norris or an adrenaline junkie. Each month we get at least 3/4 sold ones back into RMA. Go for Samsung 830 or Intel 320/520, 120gb models - you easly fill 64gb with Win7, Office, Photoshop and 2-3 bigger games; 120gb is also faster since it have double chip density compared to 64gb models.
• PSU - any 500-550W brand name should do it. I recommend you any Corsair HX or TX since one high current 12V rail is always better than multiple smaller ones. Go for more than 550W just if you plan to use crossfire or sli.
• take the cheapest 8gb DDR3 (or 16gb to be future-proof since its very cheap right now), speed doesn't matter because on Intel it don't have any effect on performance - speed compare
• i suggest you to wait with getting a HDD because of high price; then go for WD Black Edition or if you can get a Samsung Spinpoint F3 somewhere (Seagate bought them some time ago); i dont recommend you green editions because they are slow and tend to die fast, blue is something between black and green.
• i never heared about your case choice, so i cant tell you any opinions about that; our most sold model is Cooler Master HAF 932 btw
• maybe you forgot (or you don't need) a dvd drive - just take the cheapest one

I hope i helped you somehow