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Building my friend a cheap gaming comp, but I still want good parts to go behind it so it lasts long, this is the list so far:

 

If i buy a 970 am3+ board, i can get one for like 78$ instead of 140$, he doesn't need to Xfire, or any special features, it's just going to be strictly gaming

 

 

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extreme3 is crap.

 

 

 

But it works very well for the budgetest of the gaming machine.

 

 

You mean the asrock one? I was looking at the Asus 970 LE R2.0

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The 970 chipset will work fine for his needs. It's mostly for SLI. Though 990FX chipsets have more power phases.

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The 970 chipset will work fine for his needs. It's mostly for SLI. Though 990FX chipsets have more power phases.

 

 

He's a noob he probably won't ever OC so I dun think it matters if he has 68 power phases haha :P

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oh god im sry.. i thought you were about to buy an extreme3 for a friend..

 

Yeah a 970 chipset is perfect for a budget gaming machine. You will need a 990 for any modern Xfire/sli because the 970 will only be able to handle 8x/4x 2.0 speeds.

 

 

yea he's just gonna use a 7850 or maybe 7870 probably at max, depending on how much I can shave off the build lol, maybe ill google cardboard computer cases and get him one to save 20$ LOL

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Stick to the 990FX boards as it also has a higher hyper transport speed

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