What, are you mad that your brand-new $500 purchase can't render a game better than my 4 year old PC? Hell, I could upgrade right now for $300-400 and lob a new graphics card in there, and I'll be right up there at ultra for another long, long time.

Maybe this will get some people to realize how and why consoles hold back gaming so badly.

Less powerful than $500 PCs too.

Thanks. I'm definitely planning on building my first PC within the next year. It'll likely be around the new year when I'll have money to do it. I'll probably open up a blog type thing or something where I'll show what I'm going for and ask people for their input/advice.

I think I just realized that you are trying to build together a PC from this and that part. You should totally show me what you got going on. Perhaps I can help. I'm upgrading my PC myself. If you have any questions and stuff, just reply and I'll get to it. Best of luck!

I actually read that this morning. I was just checking to see if I still had access to my college's academic journal database (I graduated last May) and, thankfully, I do. Since I've always been a lucid dreamer (not just aware that I'm dreaming but able to control basically every aspect of the dream) so I usually…

In concerns with what Robotdude said, it's all true. However, they're all pretty much great. It's obvious, however, that some have more priorities than others. Asus, for example, has the best cooling solution. Their temps are the lowest of the bunch typically. However, their clocks aren't as aggressive as everyone…

The differences are basically:

Well the main difference is the different aftermarket coolers, and with automatic GPU overclocking, this is fairly important today. MSI, Gigabyte, and Asus all have really good cooler. The EVGA one is okish. Of course the stock versions are pretty much the same from each company.

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People banding together to overcome what they couldn't as individuals is truly impressive.

I wonder how many of these are just cases and how many actually have the game in them.

I've seen good cosplays and bad cosplays, this one falls in the latter category.

AMD's are great, but if you want the best Intel is better. It is like comparing a Ferrari and a Nissan GT-R. The Ferrari is faster and better, but the GT-R is still really fast and drives great for way less money.

Depends on what you're doing. If it's primarily a gaming rig then the FX series is a good value. Most games are never nearly as CPU intensive as they are GPU intensive. But if you're thinking of doing more heavy work, ex: movie editing/converting, rendering etc. , you're better off pushing for a mid level Intel. I…

I picked one of these up with a MSI 970 mobo and 16 GB of GSKILL Ripjaw RAM for just shy of $300. With the 660 GTX I have with it, it plays TombRaider on Ultra at a steady 60 frames per second. Except for Cyrsis 3, I haven't run across a game it can't play that well.

For the 6 months that I've had my FX6300 there's really not much I can say about it. It just works. For gaming there really isn't any reason to buy anything more expensive than that, spend the money you save on a better GPU instead.

Well, at the moment I have an AMD FX-8150 and it works great for all the games I've been playing. I'm currently bottlenecked by my XFX Radeon HD 6850 but I'm about to buy the EVGA GTX 780 Classified tomorrow. Then I'll be upgrading to an i7-4770k with the Asus Maximus VI Hero motherboard. All that said, this processor…

The FX-6300 is a great processor for the price point/performance ratio. I went with one and have no complaints.

In all fairness, it was very slightly less dead back in October, when the user posted the comment to which you just replied.