-building as soon as possible
-without OS
-monitor,keyboard for gaming.
-no overclocking
-no SLI/crossfire
-budget $900 with tax and shipping
-plays mainly league of legends, mw2, wow, bf3
-satisfied with 1920x1080 with max settings in bf3
both are great, however i would take amd radeon's build and spend the extra for the 7950. Performance wise the 7870xt is close, but if you overclock the 7950 you are right there with 7970 performance
thank you guys both for helping me out, im gonna be using both to move around to see what i can do, the mouse on the second one is not needed, so i think i would be fine there, again thanks so much