Do I have a good system configuration?

[weberdarren97]

I have a computer I like to call Big Blue. She wears a Phantom 530 from NZXT with 2x200mm on top as exhaust, 1x120mm radiator on rear for processor cooling, 1x200mm on front for intake, 1x140mm on side for intake, and 2x120mm on bottom for intake.

The motherboard is an ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0, CPU is AMD FX-8350 with ASUS Optimal BIOS overclock (gets to about 4.4GHz), RAM is 8GB of Radeon Memory at 1866MHz at 9-10-9-27, GPU is ASUS R9280X-DC2T-3GD5, HDDs are 2x Western Digital Black 320GB, has two generic DVD/CD read/write optical drives, and front bay mounted USB3 multi-card reader which gets its USB from a PCIe to USB3 header card while case mounted USB3 gets it from the MOBO's on-board USB 3 header. The whole inside is illuminated via a blue and green LED strip. And it is all powered by a Cooler Master V1000 to allow additional wattage for future upgrades.

What I want to know is if this is a good system configuration or not. Please no AMD haters, if all you like is Intel then go to someone talking about Intel. Same goes for Nvidia.

 

[Rocket_Man]

Yes! All I have to say about it is that if you are/considering building or upgrading, I would shoot for higher capacity WD Black drives with maybe an SSD; and do you really need that many USB 3.0 ports? I love the Phantom series (I have a 630 myself), and it will look great with the LEDs once you're done with it!

 

[sammy sung]

Is it a nice set-up, for now? Sure is. To a degree?

I'm far from an AMD hater. I haven't owned(personally) an Nvidia GPU since my GTX 295. I've gone like this

6990
7990
2x 290's
2x 390's

My upgrade path has been silly, but I've had the money at opportune times. Anyway, if this were a new proposed build you were bringing to us I'd have a wildly different opinion. The FX line-up is aged at this point. The 8350 vs the 3570K argument is dead, buried and mourned. If your purpose is gaming, the facts speak for themselves.

Since this is an existing build you're looking for an opinion on, here it is. This tower should play many if not most games at 1080p maxed out. There are exceptions however, and that list will continue to grow. the 770/280X were the 1080p kings for quite a while. That time has passed us by.