How much is this system worth?

I'm in the process of building a gaming computer. I searched for the highest performance with lower costs and as of right now my cost is $869.17. Now, I'm curious how much this system is actually going to be worth and if I did a good job or not.

Here's the specs:

• AMD FX-8120 8 core processor
• GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard
• Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4gb) DDR3 1600 mhz
• SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon HD 6870
• Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.0GB/s
• Kingwin KX 1000 watt power supply
• Zalman Z11 ATX Mid Tower case
• Logisys Dual 12” Blue Cold Cathode Light Kit
  
  
  

It won't be worth anything unless you sell it. It's value to you is what's important. I've built several gamers from scratch and still have them. Too valuable to sell. They aren't worth as much as their value to me. I just upgrade parts as I go.

unfortunately thats a tough question if your trying to sell it, its more a question of what somone is willing to pay for something not really what its worth. i hope there is a market for the gaming computer my cousin used to do the same thing 6yrs. ago stoped selling 2yrs. ago maybe the market has picked up.the thing is with computers if you dont sell it in a year it is almost obsolete because your target market are customers who are willing to pay for the new tech. not the old thats. my two cents and good luck.

You need another video processor (or two) and a liquid cooling unit. Nb for $800 though. Might also keep in mind that multiple cores aren't necessary better for gaming compared to the actual core processor speed.

Doer said:

It won't be worth anything unless you sell it. It's value to you is what's important. I've built several gamers from scratch and still have them. Too valuable to sell. They aren't worth as much as their value to me. I just upgrade parts as I go.

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I'm just curious to see how well I did.

Gastanker said:

You need another video processor (or two) and a liquid cooling unit. Nb for $800 though. Might also keep in mind that multiple cores aren't necessary better for gaming compared to the actual core processor speed.

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Is the video card I selected not good enough, or would it just be better for two?

Are you building or buying???

if your buying just get a CPU with the best motherboard & largest PSU. Try to find the other stats to be as low as possible, they always over price shitty ram & shitty video cards.

Once you have a good Motherboard you can upgrade the processor & get a better heat sink. get a good video-card, and ram. much cheaper then trying to buy it as a package.




Also I would make sure to max out the ram before buying the best processor. If you have to drop down a level to pay for 16Gb- ram i would do it.

Its like pushing a pools worth of water through a little hose. Even if you have the biggest pump it wont work well without non restricted flow

RyanTheRhino said:

Are you building or buying???

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Building. All of the listed parts I have already ordered and am just waiting for them to be delivered.

Is there anywhere in the specs above you could see improvement without much money?

I have almost that exact system as my main home work station except 16GB of ram which is excessive...I have a hard time going over 8GB..it is a pretty good processor but its new so doesn't work like it really should with some stuff, performs the same as the old quad cores with a lot of software, if your using Linux its fine though. Just make sure you flash your bios to latest or you will run into some weird problems. I actually had a game that wouldn't work untill a flashed the bios believe it or not.

To be honest I would not consider doing this build again, I upgraded from only the previous generation and honestly its not that much better...but If you have a pretty old computer its definitly worth...The main thing that setup needs is an SSD, you will see a dramatic difference in performance with an SSD. Also definitely get 2 extra monitors and make use of the eye infinity.

A few other comments: Consider 6.0GBS SATA drive instead, Consider getting the MSI HAWK Radeon 5770, they come overclocked out of the box and are fast enough to run any game at max settings with huge resolution (I have lots of games and I have bought 4 of these cards now its probably the best card I have owned, it benchmarks at the same speed as the newer ati cards and is slightly cheaper)





It reallly depends what you plan on doing exactly but for day to day typical stuff this whole build is completly overkill, If your not editing massive videos or working at a science lab or something very out of the ordinary then just get a Phenom II or i6 and 8GB of ram with an SSD instead, they are really just as fast as this new shit for normal everyday computer uses including playing games, but then again I guees you could say your prepared for the future....Personally I should of just stuck with my phenom II x4 945 and 8GB of ram because I can't even tell a difference really and I am a sysadmin, programmer, and do edit and encode very large movies.

The best upgrade right now is an SSD drive by far, an SSD raid array even better. You will be blown away, you will not go back to normal hard drives except for storage. Hard Disks are the biggest bottleneck currently.

Another thing if you buy this board and plan to use all 4 RAM slots just get the DDR3 1600, don't waste your money on the higher clock speeds because its not supported on this board if you use all 4 banks.






I can't even use 1 full core on average and never go over 8GB:

load average: 0.71, 0.79, 0.80
Tasks: 186 total, 3 running, 182 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu0 : 3.0%us, 5.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 91.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 3.9%us, 7.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 88.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu2 : 0.7%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu3 : 2.7%us, 4.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 92.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu4 : 4.3%us, 5.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 90.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu5 : 2.0%us, 5.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 93.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu6 : 0.3%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu7 : 0.3%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 16417164k total, 6815692k used, 9601472k free, 282508k buffers
Swap: 265068k total, 0k used, 265068k free, 4210204k cached

Oh shit nevermind about my motherboard comments, mine is actually the 990FXA-UD5 so some of that might not be relevant.