Help me finish my budget PC build

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Several months ago I enlisted help from that other site to build a budget PC. Liquid Snake helped a bunch, but I ended up becoming too indecisive on what I want, so I ended up halfway to the finish line.

What I have so far:

  1. Motherboard - Biostar A870U3 AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX
  2. CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 925 Deneb 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core
  3. GPU - XFX HD-567X-ZNF3 Radeon HD 5670 1GB 128-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support
  4. RAM - Kingston HyperX 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory
  5. Fans - 2x 80mm; 1x 120mm
What I need:

  1. Case (I don't mind if the fans I have go to waste, I just want a good case)
  2. Power Supply
  3. HDD (I don't care if it's a SSD or not, I'd probably rather get a higher capacity optical [that means not solid state -- right?])
  4. Blu-Ray Burner (I don't have a Blu Ray player, so I'd like a Blu Ray Burner)
  5. More RAM?

Money isn't an issue as it was before. With that said, I still like deals. I'll pay extra for more quality, as long as it's at some kind of deal. If there's no good quality deals, then I'll take what I can get.

If anyone would like to throw me some suggestions, I'd appreciate it :hamster:

 
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I would advise you cop two hard drives...a SSD to put your OS on (32GB or 64GB is fine) and then a much larger drive (at least 1TB) to store your shyt.

Worth it IMO, if you can find a decent deal on a SSD. Shyt will boot up in like 15 secs. :win:
 
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Get the radeon 6850, its the best card bang for buck right now imo
 
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Liquid said:
Get the radeon 6850, its the best card bang for buck right now imo
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:leostare: i already got the 5670 (based on your suggestion, but that was several months ago)... can i crossfire with it?

and i want to be able to play games at fairly high levels... i guess, i want to max out what it can do with what i got right now. i'll upgrade if i get an itch for more once i get it all set up.
 
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I can't remember, what was your budget back then?

Can you get the power supply right now? All roswill power supplies on newegg are 15% off until tonight
 
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Liquid said:
I can't remember, what was your budget back then?

Can you get the power supply right now? All roswill power supplies on newegg are 15% off until tonight
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it was like... $500-600 i think

i can get the power supply right now, what do you have in mind?
 
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Also, you should really go with an ssd even if it's just to load windows on it. Get a 30GB ssd and a 2tb hdd and you should be good.

$500 and I recommended a 5670? You must not be much of a gamer or I was fukked up. I will have to search for the rest of the parts. Get a 700W psu, rosewill is a budget brand but get decent reviews online.
 
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If dude isn't a gamer nor is using GPU cores for work he needs to just get a ivy/sandy bridge cpu, fukk a GPU. If he is going to be doing light gaming or whatever, get a AMD LLanos cpu. The integrated graphics on them things can beat out some dedicated solutions.
 
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