I used to be a PC gamer but after I moved here the seemingly best option at the time was to buy a console. After having burned my money away so far I'd like to go back to playing games on a nicely setup PC. I have 2 builds in mind. One requires a little more saving than the other.

I'm open to any thoughts or suggestions.
Build 1
AMD FX-8320 149
Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ 90
SAPPHIRE DUAL-X 100370L Radeon R7 265
HyperX 8GB (2 x 4GB) 95
Corsair CX 430 50
Kingston SSDNow V300 64
Some cheap cabinet 567+40

Build 2
AMD FX-8320 149
Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ 90
ASUS DirectCU II R9270X 179
CORSAIR CXM series CX600M 600W 64
2 x 4GBRipjaws X Series DDR3 95
SanDisk Extreme II 2.5" 120GB 75
Some cheap cabinet 652+40

 

Ask here: https://acurazine.com/forums/technol...thread-824518/

 

I've built numerous systems on the Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX, it's a great little motherboard, as long as you don't try to use the raid function

 

I'll keep that in mind. Only thing I hate about Asus is the fact that they don't have any good support for fixing your own shit in the laptop line up. Recently had a lot of issues with my wife's laptop and they basically said to reload windows because of the new MB I put in I'd have to spend a hundred bucks. Figured it out later but they wouldn't send me a copy or or anything. That really really pissed me off.

 

The Chassis


The hardware


The Mobo


Processor


Copper cooling tubes


Starting off with 8GB and will upgrade later


The gem in all of this