OS & Specs

Should I get windows 7 or 8. Also are these good specs? I'm trying to keep this build around the $1,000 range. Thank you in advance.

MSI Computer Corp. Motherboard North Bridge AMD 970 & South Bridge AMD SB950 Chipset ATX DDR3 800 AMD AM3+ Motherboards

AMD FX-6300 FX-Series Six-Core Processor Edition, Black AM3 FD6300WMHKBOX

Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache Internal Desktop Hard Drive Bulk/OEM

Asus VE228H 21.5-Inch Full-HD LED Monitor with Integrated Speakers

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan

GIGABYTE GV-R787OC-2GD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Car

CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Logitech Gaming Keyboard G105

A4 Tech XL-750 Gaming Mouse

SAMSUNG DVD Burner SATA Model SH-224BB - OEM

MSI ATX Mid Tower Chassis Case for Computer, Black (TC-128)

Or

ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core i5-2500K Quad-Core Processor 3.3 GHz 6 MB Cache LGA 1155

Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache Internal Desktop Hard Drive Bulk/OEM

Asus VE228H 21.5-Inch Full-HD LED Monitor with Integrated Speakers

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan

GIGABYTE GV-R787OC-2GD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Logitech Gaming Keyboard G105

A4 Tech XL-750 Gaming Mouse

SAMSUNG DVD Burner SATA Model SH-224BB - OEM

MSI ATX Mid Tower Chassis Case for Computer, Black (TC-128)





I would do the second build and Windows 7 64 if it were me but amd makes a solid cpu as well I feel the Intel is a little better for games.   You can't go wrong with either of them

I would get windows 7 yes windows 8 can run games a little bit better but its going to by a headache to get use to. Other then that your builds looks really good. They look like they are going to be really good gaming computers.