Logan, I Beat Your $650 build from July

Hardware Build a PC
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Got this for around $650. Here Are the specs.

Processor: intel i7 3770k

MotherBoard: Intel® Desktop Board DZ77GAL-70K Extreme Series

Graphics cards: 2x Radeon 6950 crossfire

RAM: 16GB  (4x4) G.skill Ripjaws DDR3 1866

Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 750w 80+bronze non modular

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM HDD

Case: Apevia X-Trooper Black/Blue ATX Mid-Tower

Disk Drive: That iHas124-04 thing that is like $15

and that's it. Special thanks to my brother who is upgrading his graphics cards and as such gifting me the 2 6950s for free, also to his friend who is a best buy employee and as such getting me the motherboard and cpu combined for $265, and to cyber monday, because everything else i got was on sale for 30%-50% off. so i got this absolute beast of a computer for around $650. i think i beat you on that video back in july Logan. i think i got you beat.

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nice score man 

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i am so damn lucky

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Antec PSU can be bad at times. Notorious for coil whine. Watch out for that. Also, adding an SSD would benifit this system greatly. Otherwise looks good.

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is coil whine just an irritating noise? not well versed in the afflictions of power supplies.

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I considered an SSD but i don't know, may grab a small one for the OS.

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you need to get a 7970. maybe later upgrade and then sell the old gpu's?

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thought about it, but the most strenuous game i will play anytime soon is BF3 and these will run it on almost full ultra. and these are free.

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Prices now are different from July. Computer component prices fluxuate constantly and usually become obsolete fairly quickly. Also, this time of year, things are a lot cheaper than normal *cough* Christmas *cough*

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Ive had 2 antec power supply's ( "HCP-850" 850W Gold and a "HCP-1200" 1200W Goldand both of them blew up in different pc's at different locations. So i'm not realy trusting there supplys annymore

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even so i doubt you could throw together a 650$ rig that is better than this

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Shipping and tax would bring this to 300 dollars. 

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just read two reviews from people who thoroughly tested this PSU at different levels of Wattage. it is a good PSU and can hhandle up to 1000w before its safeties shut it down before it blows up, so i think i am safe with this one.

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while you were very resorcefull as to use black friday deals to your advantige you should do a $650 rig with out any specail events or promotions like that

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1. It's not a contest

2. It's easy to beat someones build from 5 months ago, theirs of which was not around Christmas/holidays.

3. Beating someone elses build from 5 months ago, and then challenging someone to beat the current build you made is not a fair challenge. You can only ask me to beat that build in 5 months from now, which would probably be pretty easy.

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First off, i was not trying to make it a challenge, i was responding to the one Logan Posted, nor did i intend to be abrasive in any way, which my the wording of your posts it seems as though you have taken offense in some way. i was happy that i scored this build for $650 and so i decided to post it and see what people thought. that is all.

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"even so i doubt you could throw together a 650$ rig that is better than this"

Sounds like a challenge to me. And no, I'm not offended. I'm just saying, boasting about beating someones build from 5 months ago with tons of lowered holiday prices seems kind of pointless.

Not saying you did a bad job on the build.