God damn deals lately. Picked up a money maker at Tiger Direct for a case. Then it all started.

Frys had an i7 3770k for $222
WD Mainstream 2TB $69
Tigerdirect has a Seasonic 660xp2 for $80
pny gtx 770 2gb for $280 after rebates

Just need a motherboard and memory and make a go of it. I am leaning towards Asrock because they have the remote turn on from a completely off state. I was thinking ASRock Z77M. Memory.... i have no idea. some 8gb stick.

I have an SSD sitting aronud that will handle Win 7 and XBMC.

Just throwing this out there, love my Asrock Extreme 6/gb . If you dont need tri-sli, Extreme 4 has all the same features with just 2 pci-e slots~

that is an atx form factor? i need micro atx.

My brother is a software engineer and he built my pc. This sounds like molecular genetics.

Mine is ATX, but I would still recommend asrock to anyone. I have had 2 separate mobos, both very good overclockers and high quality, and the reviews speak for themselves.

Ok thinking seriously about getting a gaming rig and I can get the following for $625 from Craiglist and need to see if it's worth that and any good....

Specs....

OS- Windows 8 64-bit
Case- Cooler Master Storm Scout 2
CPU- AMD FX 6300 3.5 ghz 6 core
Motherboard- Gigabyte 970A-UD3
Video card- Gigabyte HD 7850 2GB SC
Power supply- Corsair CX500
RAM- corsair vengance 8gb (2x 4gb)
HDD- WD 500gb 7200rpm
Misc- Tenda Wireless PCI adapter

New or used? If its new, deal is ok. If its used? meh, you could likely build it new for that much or less.

Slightly used...

That pricing is slightly better than Newegg. With a little bit of looking you can do much better.

Forgot to mention that deals includes a 24'' inch Asus monitor...don't really know if that changes opinions or not lol.

With the monitor its a better deal. I bet if you looked hard you could find an even better one though. Depends on how hot you are on it.

I'm just not very good at searching for parts or building lol...

Got my rig finally going last night. Seriously ground shipping from tigerdirect takes forever. Couple of issues:
--The (Free) Raygo case I got has a rolled metal bar right next to PCIE 3.0 socket. It blocked my HDMI cable from going in all the way... ugh. Had to take pliers to bend it out of the way.
--XBMC does not play nice with my GTX 770 when setting to "Match refresh rate to match video" is enabled. IE Watching 24fps video causes stuttering on video when XBMC changes the refresh rate. Yet if I manually change the refresh rate myself in the Geforce Control Panel it plays just fine. A minor annoyance. Playing all content at 24 or 60 plays fine. It is only when the video player tries to change it will it stutter.
--Went to register my GPU online at PNY (lifetime warranty), the serial number is only on the video card itself rather than on the box or anything. That is crazy and now I have to take apart my rig tonight to get to it.
--I heard a minor coil whine after a while. It was sporadic and not too annoying.


A few bumps in the road. Ran the Bio Shock Infinite Benchmark and the slowest segment was 55 fps. Avg was 120 fps. I am happy.

same reason i havent registered my 780

Simply for me to brag. I just hope all my rebates come in. Some things I have already. (The SSD was free with a net top PC I built previously) I have 360 Controllers from my two RROD Xboxes. Mouse and keyboard from my previous computer. etc.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $222.00)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright TS-120M(BW) 56.2 CFM CPU Cooler (Purchased For $42.90)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste (Purchased For $7.49)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (Purchased For $84.99)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $59.99)
Storage: A-Data S510 Series 60GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Western Digital 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $69.00)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $74.99)
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (Purchased For $279.99)
Case Fan: Rosewill RFA-80-K 33.2 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $4.99)
Case Fan: Rosewill RFA-80-K 33.2 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $4.99)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 660W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $79.99)
Other: Raygo Computer Case (Purchased For $0.00)
Other: Microsoft 360 Wireless Receiver (Purchased For $16.99)
Total: $948.31
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-09 12:31 EST-0500)

The other nice thing is all I have to upgrade is the motherboard and I can get some SLI to fit under the Power supply. Not bad.