CPU and GPU...Good Fit ?

no bottleneck there......though I would seriously suggest looking at something other than the 465....its a good card, but overpriced, and you can get an ATI card with better performance for roughly the same price....other than that, they should be just fine together....worst case that CPU will OC quite a bit
 
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This is the specs I've picked out. Please critique, I'm trying to stay under 900$.


CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core - $159.00

Motherboard - GIGABYTE GA-890XA-UD3 AM3 AMD 790X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 - $140.00

Video Card - XFX HD-583X-ZNFV Radeon HD 5830 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support - $240.00

RAM - Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) - $70.00

PSU - COOLER MASTER Silent Pro 700 RS-700-AMBA-D3 700W ATX12V V2.3 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC - $120.00

Hard Drives - Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s - $55.00

Total - $775 (without the Case and CPU fan)

EDIT - I'm going to look into some different ram, cause I would like to have 4GB instead of 2
 
well the gtx470 performs similar to the hd 5850 but (the HD 5850) cost less and runs cooler (than the gtx470)

the gtx465 performs much worse than the hd 5850 but cost the same

the gtx465 is about 11% slower than the hd 5830 but the hd 5830 is $25 to $80 cheaper...

for your price point the 5850 is your best bet, if you want to save a little money over the 5830 then you want something a little faster than the gtx465 but want to spend a little less then you should get the 5830
 
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Thats a pretty solid build layout, however if you can squeeze it into your budget I would recommend getting either two 5770's, or a single 5850.....from a price/performance view point the 5830 is not good(dont get me wrong, its a good card just too expensive for the performance compared to the other ATI offerings)

also, on that HDD i would recommend against a 7200.12 version of Seagate drives....from what ive seen they are under performers compared to pretty much every drive out there, and most of em have low life span(correct me if i'm wrong)

EricFX1984 said:
well the gtx470 performs similar to the hd 5850 but cost less and runs coolers
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the only thing correct in that statement is that performance is similar....the 5850 is less expensive(reference design vs reference), and runs a hell of alot cooler than a gtx 470..
 
W.Feather said:
the only thing correct in that statement is that performance is similar....the 5850 is less expensive(reference design vs reference), and runs a hell of alot cooler than a gtx 470..
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thats what I said... maybe you misunderstood me (I guess I could have wrote it better, I will fix it)

hell the 5850 is $280 - $360 depending on what card you buy

the gtx 470 is $350 to almost $400

the gtx470 runs hot and can double as a heater for your entire house

the 5850 is nice and cool

the gtx470 will raise your electric bill

the 5850 will lower your electric bill when compared to last generation ATI cards

I am guessing that you misunderstood what I was saying up top

maybe I should have wrote it a little better

benchmarks dont lie, its they are close... the gtx470 is alittle faster but nothing to write home a about and certainly nothing to warrant the extra cost over the 5850

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-465-fermi-gf100,2642-4.html
 
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i never said the performance wasnt similar.....i said that was the only thing you posted that was correct.....
 
W.Feather said:
the only thing correct in that statement is that performance is similar....the 5850 is less expensive(reference design vs reference), and runs a hell of alot cooler than a gtx 470..
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yeah I misworded that, it should have said that the 5850 was cheaper and ran cooler... the way I wrote it would imply the opposite (which would not be true)

that is not what I was going for, simple mistype

as far at the seagate 7200.12's go... they dont seem to have any major issues... its the 7200.11 that had issues.... and that was only with the early firmware
 
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