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Which of these PC's are best?

Chrisis

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Mar 13, 2013
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10,510
#1:
CM Storm Scout II Gaming Midi Tower
Corsair CX 500W PSU
Intel® Core i5-3570K Processor
MSI Z77A-G43, Socket-1155
Kingston DDR3 HyperX blu 1600MHz 16GB
EVGA GeForce GTX 680 2GB PhysX CUDA
Crucial m4 SSD 2.5" 256GB
Samsung DVD Writer, SH-224BB
CM Storm Xornet Gaming Mouse
Logitech Gaming Keyboard G105


Microsoft Windows 8 64bit

#2
Corsair Obsidian 650D Midi Tower Sort
Corsair TX 750W PSU
AMD FX-8320 8-Core Processor
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0, Socket-AM3+
Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1866MHz 16GB KIT
Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz 2GB GDDR5
Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz 2GB GDDR5
Samsung DVD Writer, SH-224BB
Crucial m4 SSD 2.5" 256GB
Western Digital® Desktop Blue 1TB

#3
Cooler Master HAF X Nvidia Edition
Corsair CX 750M, 750W PSU
MSI Z77 MPower, Socket-1155
Intel® Core i7-3770K Processor
Corsair H40 Hydro Series CPU Cooler
Crucial DDR3 BallistiX 1600Mhz DDR3 16GB
MSI GeForce GTX 670 2GB PhysX CUDA "Power Edition"
Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5"
Western Digital® Desktop Blue 1TB
Samsung DVD Writer, SH-224BB
 


All costs exactly the same :) except #3 which is on sale normally a bit more pricey

 


+1

Out of those, I would choose the 1st build solely for gaming, and the 3rd build if you were to do video-editing. The 2nd build would suffer from microstutter with two 7870s in X-Fire, while you'll probably see some better performance. It may have a slight CPU bottleneck though.
But, if possible, build your own PC. It's cheaper, and you can use the money you've saved to put into a better GPU/CPU etc. It's more satisfying and you'll get better results for (less) money.