Shadowfold

Very nice review. *cough* looks almost exactly like the Jetway 790GX Sapphire likes rebranding boards. I know they made a 790FX PURE that was actually a DFI 790FX-LP-UT in disguise.

Case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811147075 PSU 550w Corsair - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817139004 Corsair 4gb DDR2(my kit does 1000mhz easy) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820145184 Phenom II 720 + MSI 790GX(great board, I have one myself) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDet...st=Combo.165035 HD 4870 Video Card - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814150352

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I'm a long time PC builder and my friend damian got me to sign up. I like building, tweaking, overclocking and gaming custom PC's. I have been for awhile. I've had a large array of hardware from Athlon 6000+'s to Phenom II 940's and HD 2900XT's to HD 4830's. I'd have to say my favorite piece of hardware was my old HD 4850. That thing kicked butt. I'm enjoying a 4830 crossfire setup right now and I plan on going with a single 4870 1gb soon and crossfire'ing that later on. I might grab a PII 720BE soon as well I like death/prog/melodeath/avant/neoclassical metal too

Been using AMD for the past 9 years. Haven't had any problems with them. That only works on some boards and even then it's not 100% stable. Honestly tho, they never really went anywhere. The 9850/9950 was on par with the Q6600/E8400 in gaming and normal usage, the Phenom II is what put them ahaid of Intel price/performance wise.