Which spec looks better

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Celer

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Zalman Z9 Case with Blue LED
Corsair GS700 700W Power Supply
AsRock 970 Extreme AM3+ Motherboard
AMD FX-8320 Processor
Zalman CNPS9900MAX-Blue Cooler
Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600 Pro Gold
Sapphire 3GB 7970 Graphics Card
Seagate 1TB 3.5” Internal Hard Drive
DVD-RW
Windows 7 Home Premium

Or

Zalman Z9 Case with Blue LED
Corsair GS700 700W Power Supply
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Cooler
AsRock Skt 1150 B85M Pro4 Motherboard (Max support 32GB)
Intel Core i5 4670K (3.4Ghz) Quad Core Processor (New Haswell Socket)
Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600 Pro Gold
Asus 2GB GTX670 Graphics Card
Seagate 1TB 3.5” Internal Hard Drive
DVD-RW
Windows 7 Home Premium

Thanks.
 
First one has a better graphics card but a weaker CPU, and the second one has a slightly stronger CPU but a weaker graphics card.

It's a tough one, but the first one would probably give better performance in games because of the stronger graphics card.
 
I don't think the motherboard on option #2 supports overclocking. Needs a Z87 chipset.
But for gaming, I think option #1 would give more FPS.
 
I heard that the first motherboard has something that is being phased out? Which is why my friend changed the motherboard on the second one.
 
Celer said:
I heard that the first motherboard has something that is being phased out? Which is why my friend changed the motherboard on the second one.
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No. It's running the AM3+ socket which still has two more "generations" so to speak of processors coming out for it. It's the newest tech from AMD right now.

Same as said before, first will give better gaming performance. If that's all you're planning on doing I would go with the first myself.
 
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