Need some thoughts on my current build. may need upgrades.

Thomas Lee

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Jul 10, 2013
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Gigabyte 970-D3 (May upgrade to any of the following ASUS M599FX PRO, ASUS M5A99X EVO, ASUS M5A97LE) Please help choose which i should upgrade to!
AMD Phenom X2 (may upgrade to a bulldozer)
16GB DDR3 Patriot Viper 1600 RAM
Samsung 840 series 120 GB SSD
Gigabyte HD 6850 Graphics Card

I also have another drive which i use for regular storage. but is this a decent build? I was able to run some high end games with this build on my old PC with the same CPU but it was on 4GB DDR2 but with the same graphics card too..
 


One question, is there going to be a difference if i use a 970 chip on a 990 motherboard? and also what is the difference between 970 and 990? I assume 990 is better. but in what way is it better?