New to computer building

[Snowcaine]

Hey there everyone.

 

I'm a new pc gamer/user and i was wanting to build my own custom AMD rig 

 

I have a few parts in mind.

 

Case: 800D

 

GPU:  AMD 7970 (Possibly x2)

 

CPU: FX 8350

 

Now for a motherboard and cooling as well as ram and power supply ect ect i am lost :/

 

If anyone could give me some suggestion and what they think would make this build complete please comment below :) 

 

And thank you in advance.

 

 

[virusal19]

Case: Corsair 650D 

 

GPU: Crossfire 7970 

 

CPU: Intel i5 3570k (Or wait for Haswell)

 

MOBO: gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP4-TH (Or wait for Haswell motherboard)

 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i

 

PSU: Corsair AX860i (For any future upgrades you might do)

 

RAM: G.Skill 8GB (1333Mhz or 1600Mhz)

 

SSD: Intel 520 120GB

 

HDD: Western Digital Black 1TB 

 

That cost a total of just under $2000 AUD

(It is hard because we don't know your budget)

[Glenwing]

To be honest I wouldn't recommend the 800D if you're not watercooling; I'd go with the 650D which is still a very solid case and will fit 98% of builds.

 

Go with the MSI 7970

 

The Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 or Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 are solid boards for the FX-8350.  As for CPU cooling you could get a closed loop cooler like the Corsair H60 or H100i which look very clean in your system but an equally performing air cooler like the Noctua NH-D14 will cost less.

 

Power supply I'd go with the SeaSonic X650 for a single graphics card, or the X750 for dual graphics cards.

 

RAM go with 2x4GB of G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1600

 

You need a hard drive as well; a 128GB or 256GB SSD might not be a bad idea for installing your operating system and programs on as it will greatly accelerate your computer's boot up and program loading time.

[Snowcaine]

Wow ok well thank you for the quick response :)

 

 

And for the budget i would like to spend around 2300$ max.(that's CAD)

 

The only reason i want to use the 800D is to upgrade in the future and play around with everything, Since this will be my case for a while i want that flexibility of a larger case but nothing to big like the 900D 

 

@Glenwing i will be water cooling ill be using the h100i.

 

 

 

I'm adding all of these suggestions to a text file LOL . Again thank you guys.

[killerx525]

With that sort of budget, you may as well add in the 2nd 7970.

[Zims]

If I would do 2 graphics cards then I would go with nVidia.

Crosfire is kinda pointles as the framerating tests show.

I don`t know the pricing but if you could replace 2x7970 with a titan you can sawe a lot of headaches. 

Maybe the prices are no even close. Then I would go with SLI not crosfire

[sk8ermanblue]

Crossfire fix hopefully coming soon. I would suggest that any multi-gpu setup you run 16 gigs of 1600 ram at a minimum. I do say this with a word of caution as right now there is no game out there that requires this much but some games can bottleneck with different processor/video cards at 6-8 gigs and the price of ram these days 16 gigs of 1600 should be one of the cheaper components of your build i just got the avexir core kit that has led's for 145 usd something similar would do the trick. if you want to stick with amd the new drivers should fix it as raw graphics power should be better achieved with the AMD cards. see linus' last live stream if you havent yet it talks about it quite nicely.