so, I'm planning to get a new rig, dose this look good?

[Spyisaspy12]

I'm not really interested in getting parts atm but my parents are planning to buy me a new rig for my bday. how does this look?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883229285

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CyberpowerPC Gamer Ultra 2098 (GU209 Desktop PC AMD FX-Series FX-4100(3.6GHz) 8GB DDR3 500GB HDD Capacity AMD Radeon HD 6670 1GB Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit

I'm not really interested in playing games that demand alot of power ( like bf3), just some tf2 and maybe starcraft 2

[stevems]

I suggest that you should get a better graphics card if you intend to play games. The 6670 isn't that great.

[Spyisaspy12]

I suggest that you should get a better graphics card if you intend to play games. The 6670 isn't that great.

I actually am planning ot buy a new one after I get this rig.

[stevems]

Then don't get the 6670 for the rig and use the money that you would have spent on the 6670 towards the graphics card you would get after you purchase your rig.

[Software2]

I know you said you weren't interested in buying parts, but just quickly checking the prices of each of those individual components, it's significantly cheaper to buy the parts and put it together yourself. I know you might not care about the price since your parents are paying for it, but trust me, your parents care. If they're willing to spend that much, why not use that much money getting an even better rig?

Not trying to start an AMD/Intel argument, but right now Intel is just so far above AMD in terms of performance that it really makes sense to at least consider going Intel. Tom's Hardware has some excellent info comparing your selected AMD with an Intel i3.

Since you said you were planning on upgrading your graphics card, you might want to consider upgrading that low end processor, too. AMD just won't be able to do that as well.

Today, Intel's LGA 1155 platform remains the best bet for a gaming rig. And not only for its budget-oriented performance, which is great, but also for its potential. Start with a cheap Core i3 and an inexpensive discrete GPU. Then, upgrade later to an Ivy Bridge-based chip and a faster graphics card without imposing any sort of bottleneck. SLI and CrossFire are both viable with a fast-enough CPU (even splitting PCI Express connectivity between two x8 slots), and the $180 Core i5-2400 is a gaming beast that AMD's overclocked processors cannot touch.

AMD simply cannot counter those advantages right now. We must look to the Piledriver architecture and hope that our current assessment can be reevaluated later this year.

[Spyisaspy12]

I know you said you weren't interested in buying parts, but just quickly checking the prices of each of those individual components, it's significantly cheaper to buy the parts and put it together yourself. I know you might not care about the price since your parents are paying for it, but trust me, your parents care. If they're willing to spend that much, why not use that much money getting an even better rig?

Not trying to start an AMD/Intel argument, but right now Intel is just so far above AMD in terms of performance that it really makes sense to at least consider going Intel. Tom's Hardware has some excellent info comparing your selected AMD with an Intel i3.

Since you said you were planning on upgrading your graphics card, you might want to consider upgrading that low end processor, too. AMD just won't be able to do that as well.

Today, Intel's LGA 1155 platform remains the best bet for a gaming rig. And not only for its budget-oriented performance, which is great, but also for its potential. Start with a cheap Core i3 and an inexpensive discrete GPU. Then, upgrade later to an Ivy Bridge-based chip and a faster graphics card without imposing any sort of bottleneck. SLI and CrossFire are both viable with a fast-enough CPU (even splitting PCI Express connectivity between two x8 slots), and the $180 Core i5-2400 is a gaming beast that AMD's overclocked processors cannot touch.

AMD simply cannot counter those advantages right now. We must look to the Piledriver architecture and hope that our current assessment can be reevaluated later this year.

alright, shall do. I just hate this low tier pc I have. hardly can play amnesia with good fps. with this new rig, I could at least do livestreams and such

[rawrnerozero]

All I can say is change to intel and definitely change case...

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

Yeah , intel's chips are cheaper AND more powerful almost universally across all price points.

[rawrnerozero]

Yeah , intel's chips are cheaper AND more powerful almost universally across all price points.

Any ways back on topic, I just read again you weren't looking for games with high demands(bad on my part derp) so I agree with Omega with the option of AMD for price/peformance wise.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

ACTUALLY, I wasn't really being sarcastic there. As of the 2000 and 3000 series the only price point AMD holds is the 50-100$ range, which is really... ugh. My Q6600 holds its own against that shit and I bought it in 2006 for less than 200$. I mean you can TRIPLE the performance of that price-range for another 80$.

They really get by on the fact that people still THINK that they have better price/performance still. For the most part they even lost their TDP and Wattage advantage when intel jumped the shark on their manufacturing processes.

Their 8-core has a SLIGHT advantage if you're looking at the 200$ range, but that's sort of counteracted by the fact that you'll get much better performance in video games (and almost everything else) with the i5-3570 because nothing on earth is optimized for 8-cores.