Is this PC good?

[Gondi]

Friend built it for me, get the mobo in a couple weeks, all I need to do is put it in and it is go. Just don't know a thing about PCs. Want to know if it is good bad, need it explained it terms of running which games on which settings lol.

Processor: AMD 6-core Thuban 3.2GHz
RAM: 16GB high performance G.Skill DDR3 1600 MHz
motherboard: High Performance/Ultra Durable ASUS Sabertooth 990FX w/SATA 3, (compatible with newest AMD Bulldozer processors)
graphics: EVGA NVidia GeForce 570 GTX Overclocked Edition 3GB VRAM
cooler: high-performance dual torus copper finned cooler SSD drive: Corsair FX 60GB SSD (for Win system files) HD Drive: WD Raptor 10K RPM 300GB (for Documents and Win logs) SAMSUNG Blue-ray/DVD Drive (Reads/Writes both) ANTEC EasySATA HotSwap HDD Tray (takes regular SATA drives) connected to
SATA3 on mobo
On-board Gigabit Networking
PCI-Express: Intel Dual Server Gigabit Adapter 1000PT Thermaltake ToughPower 875W PSU
Win7 Ultimate
HAF 512 (High Air Flow) case with sound deadening foam inside on sides/bottom/top for quietness and 5 low-noise fans

[ShyguyXPC]

looks fine, but depends on what you plan on running on it.

And as to how it will run games, until you list what games you plan on running no one can say for sure how they will run and at what detail levels.

cooler: high-performance dual torus copper finned cooler

Thats pretty vague for a description, tells us nothing... What Brand/Model of CPU cooler is it?


HAF 512, its 912. Also Corsair doesn't have an FX series SSD, this is all they have: Corsair SSD Hard Drives — Solid-State Drives for laptops and desktop PCs with the highest performance Read/Write speeds of up to 555MB/s read and 525MB/s write.

Was it the GT model you have? If so, that drive is fine, one of the best out there.


As to the Motheboard "compatible with newest AMD Bulldozer processors" don't even bother with the FX series if you ever planned on Upgrading the FX were a flop. The Thuban X6 you have now actually outperforms the FX series 6 core, or at least matches it, the FX series aside from the 8 core, don't outperform the prior gen Phenom II Series at all.

So your fine on the CPU.


Looking at the GPU, notice its the doubled up memory model with 3GB (Stock 570 has 1.5GB), so you should be good to go on almost any game out there, Battlefield 3 Should be able to play on High settings pretty well, just as an example, and games like Skyrim will be able to be maxed out with Frame rates of over 60fps easily.

Skyrim, runs fully maxed out at 1080p on my system with frame rates between 40 and 60+, and I'm just running a single GTX 560 Ti with 1GB memory on it right now, also running a Core i7 940 2.93GHz Quad core, which is actually a faster CPU in overall performance to the 6 core you have, and 6GB DDR3 in Triple channel memory.

[Gondi]

I will post more when I get it running in a week or so.
As it sounds it seems to be all right in what I was looking for. I plan on playing Dark Souls PC release as it will have content the PS3 version will not have. Also playing FFXIV 2.0 which is main reason I bought it. Right now I have to play games like League Of Legends on lowest settings, and Minecraft was a little laggy after so much map was spawned.
Was $900 a good price to pay for it?

[ShyguyXPC]

Doing rough estimates on parts pricing and $900 is a pretty good deal, would of cost at least an easy grand or more for all of that brand new, and assembled.

as to the games, everything you list should run on max settings with the hardware, unfamiliar with the one Dark Souls game, but everything else will run at max settings and really high frame rates, infact most of the system is overkill for those games.

this kind of rig is more for Crysis 2, BF3, Elder Scroll games, Metro 2033, and other high end high demand graphics games.

But yes, it is a good price and will perform great for the games you mentioned.

[Gondi]

Well I plan on playing games like Skyrim and BF3 eventually. Just not high on my priority list, so good to hear it is available. Thank you for the info, I will post the spec sheet when I have my PC turned on.

[SoloCamo]

Welcome to TechIMO!

As already said by Shyguy that PC is a rather good deal that should have zero problem running the games you listed. In fact it's practically identical to my system in my signature and I assure you, besides 64 player matches on BF3 (which I run on a mix of ultra and high settings) I can max every single game out at 1080p. Don't know about Metro 2033 though on max, that game seems to kill gpu's, but the point is the same