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I'm looking to build a new PC, 

  • Living in Asia, but will be shipping the parts from the US since it's so much cheaper that way, so note that all the parts will have to be from Amazon. (With the exception of the Motherboard, since I have to pay for shipping anyways)
  • Budget is about USD$800
  • Monitors/Periphals already taken care off, have a 1080p display with a 720p for productivity
  • Will be playing games (Minecraft, GMod, Borderlands) on a single 1080p display, may also go into some web development and the accompanying photo/video processing, as well as testing server applications and stuff.
  • HDDs and OS will be taken from older rigs
  • I don't like watercooling, so the NH-D14's a personal choice, and so is the red/black color scheme.
  • What do you guys think?

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QGLJNG
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QGLJNG/by_merchant/
 
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor  ($169.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($67.87 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Killer ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($129.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: *Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($76.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  ($169.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Corsair Graphite Series 230T Orange ATX Mid Tower Case  ($74.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: *Rosewill Hive 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($59.99 @ Amazon) 
Other: Hot Swap Drive Bays ($42.79 @ Amazon)
Total: $792.60
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-06 05:58 EDT-0400
 
 
Issues:
Will the bottlenecking from the 8350 be very bad even if the GPU's a 270? 
I will be overclocking everything, so is the PSU gonna be enough? I'm perfectly happy with bronze ratings.
How much do you think the price will drop during the Black Friday sales? Will I be able to upgrade to a R9-280?

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No bottleneck, you could run 2x GTX 980's and no bottleneck, it has similar performance to a 4690k.

PSU is big enough
No clue 

PC: Corsair C70 Arctic, FX 9370, Corsair H80i, Gigabyte 990fxa-ud3, Corsair Vengence 16gb, Palit JetStream GTX 970, OCZ Vertex 4 128gb and Western Digital Blue 1Tb + 500gb, Antec Gamer 520w

Peripherals: Logitech G19 and SteelSeries Sensei RAW

Toshiba L50-A: i7 4700mq, 8gb, 1TB HDD, GT 740M 2gb

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