Need input on gaming rig

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Good day forum!

I'm soon looking to build my very first rig, and I will be looking into Eyefinity at some point in the near future. It's going to be a AMD build, this is what I have found out so far:

MoBo: Asus Crosshair Formula-Z

CPU: AMD XF 8350 

Gpu: Asus Radeon HD 7970 DirectCU II 

Ram: 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2400MHz

PSU: Corsair Series HX1050

Cooling: Corsair H100i

ODD: Samsung 24x Sata DvD Writer

HDD: 500GB Western Digital Caviar

Case: Corsair Obsidian 800D

I will be looking into some overclocking of both the CPU and GPU. I would love to hear any input about the build, and what could be better.

-Cheers

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This looks like a pretty hot build, but as you are spending big bucks, you may aswell buy a little SSD for you OS and a few games to get a bit of extra speed!

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Budget?

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Get the asus sabertooth pci 3.0 its on newegg, it will be better imo, it has pci 3.0, if you wait the ROG board will be updated soon I bet.

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I'd just grab 16Gb of ram.

Get a 1 or 2Tb harddrive. 

 

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agreed, dont get 500gb, you might as well buy 1tb, 500gb is overpriced