Please help me review my buld

cardwej

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Hello, I'm looking at building a gaming computer for the first time. I've been looking at parts from Newegg.com. I plan on using the computer for college online classes and gaming specifically guild wars 2 and far cry 3.

here are the specs
Motherboard: Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3 AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD

tower: COUGAR Evolution Black SECC ATX Full Tower Computer Case with Dual 12cm COUGAR TURBINE HYPER-SPIN Bearing Silent Fans, USB

memory: Kingston HyperX XMP Blu Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory Model KHX16C9B1RK2/8X

Storage: Seagate DB35 Series 7200.3 ST3160215ACE-H 160GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Plus adding additonal drives as i need them possibly upgrading to SSD later on

Optical Drive: SAMSUNG DVD Burner SATA Model SH-224BB - OEM

Video Card: SAPPHIRE 100351SR Radeon HD 7970 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card OC with Boost

PSU: CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC

CPU: AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4100WMGUSBX

I have a little experience working with hardware. I plan on gaming on a 1080 P HDTV as well as a 1080 P Monitor
 



For the games you are trying to play, that cpu is a terrible choice, it's anemic performance would be a detriment.

Also you would never see the full potential of the GPU with it, ugly stutterfest...


What is the budget you want to keep within?