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    $600 ATX Intel Gaming Critique

    Well regarding the CPU, the prices have been confusing the crap out of me. i5-3470 = $235 = 3.4Ghz i5-2500(k?) = $210 = 3.3Ghz i5-3450 = $200 = 3.1Ghz i5-2400 = $195 = 3.1Ghz I can see the speed is greater in the i5-2500 but the fact that they don't seem to be better the higher the model number...
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    $600 ATX Intel Gaming Critique

    That was actually a typo on my part, meant to say 2 x 4GB DDR3 1600mhz. But yeah. Power supply I can easily change to this, corsair power supplies seem to be the most recommended and reliable anyways. Motherboard is fine, but I might end up downgrading CPU to the i5-2400 SB like I said before...
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    $600 ATX Intel Gaming Critique

    Oh, ok :P So might actually downgrade to the i5-2500 SB, just to save a few bucks then. And get 2 x 8GB DDR3 1600mhz ram. Then I'll still have a computer capable of handling a higher end card and being upgradable easily for future games/hardware. Sorta. What motherboard do you or anyone else...
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    $600 ATX Intel Gaming Critique

    Yeah I know its bad, I guess I'll get something a bit better. But even if I had a board with 2 x PCI Express 2.0 16X ports, the board wouldn't have the bandwidth to operate both simoutaniously so both would be reduced to 8X, making crossfiring pointless. To solve that I would get a board with 2...
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    $600 ATX Intel Gaming Critique

    I purposly left out the gpu, I'm buying one later and I have a 3470 to hold its place. Just looking for critique and stuff. Power Supply (Silencer Mk III Series 600W 80PLUS Bronze High Performance Power Supply) = $90 Motherboard (Gigabyte GA-P75-D3) = $80 CPU (Intel Core i5-3450...
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