Athlon II x4 620

It's the cheapest quad core I could afford. It isn't the best at OCing but for the price i paid i am okay with it haha.

I can't afford intel i5 or i7 mobo or the CPU. The i3 ibenchmarks the same as the 620 but was 100 bucks more and had better OCing capabilities . I was considering a Phenom x 2 550 (not black edition because thats like $70-100+ more) but the benchmarks showed it varied (depending on the game. For games that utlizes multi core processing it was lower but for single core utlization it was higher).

Haha don't give me the sad face Dareeeee !!! *pokes*. If I had more money I would have definitely went with an i5 + i5 mobo combo. :yahoo

nicee!

That's a nice looking rig Onion. Could you give me a link to the video card cooler you referenced.

on the i5 combo, but not all of us can be high rollers like Dare.

AMD is fine for budget builds. That's a nice rig for the price you paid man. Love the way that mobo looks. You skimped on all the parts you should have. I'd suggest a 4850 for a video card, they can be found for less than $100 on ebay. The reference coolers on those are good enough but most vendors made nice cooling for the 48xx's. Sapphire's is the best, I have my Sapphire 4830 on a GPU overclocked from 500 to 800MHz and my VRAM from 700 to 1100MHz and it never even gets close to getting hot, even after 6 hour sessions of MW2 single player cranked up to max at 1280x1024. The integrated graphics in the 790 chipset are nice enough to be used to run a second monitor, I'm able to play Knights of the Old Republic II on one screen and watch Star Wars in Blu-ray on the other with no problems on the 780 chipset. That's a weird lookin I/O man.

AMD is fine for budget builds. That's a nice rig for the price you paid man. Love the way that mobo looks. You skimped on all the parts you should have. I'd suggest a 4850 for a video card, they can be found for less than $100 on ebay. The reference coolers on those are good enough but most vendors made nice cooling for the 48xx's. Sapphire's is the best, I have my Sapphire 4830 on a GPU overclocked from 500 to 800MHz and my VRAM from 700 to 1100MHz and it never even gets close to getting hot, even after 6 hour sessions of MW2 single player cranked up to max at 1280x1024. The integrated graphics in the 790 chipset are nice enough to be used to run a second monitor, I'm able to play Knights of the Old Republic II on one screen and watch Star Wars in Blu-ray on the other with no problems on the 780 chipset. That's a weird lookin I/O man.

Ty =). Hey its all good. 8 seconds to install ET is a major improvement to how long it took before =D.

Also I went with the HD 5770 for a video card. It benches at almost the same level as a HD4870 for the same price ($174.99 Canadian ), but a heck of a lot more efficient on its wattage consumption. To be honest I wanted to get a HD 4870 or GTX 260 but I figure I would settle for the one of the newer cards (good choice? I am really not sure to be honest. I do know it saves a heck of a lot on wattage compared to the latter two).

sexy! Nice job.

sexy! Nice job.

Thanks. Its a budget gaming PC so it can't get much sexier (unless you have more money. Then you get a heck of a lot sexy out of it)