HI! Recommend some games IB...

HAlf of those the op will hate, because old game or old style graphics (such as antichamber)
Also op, your attitude for games annoys me. Graphics aren't everything.
Also, I get the feeling you spent about 5 times as much as me in my build for pretty much identical specs. Bar a slower 2tb hdd (Mine is 7200rpm)

GAmes:
Metro last light
BIoshock infinite
Spec ops the line
CRysis 1-3
Skyrim with hd mods, maybe (just because it's choppy with a shit pc, and the story didn't progress, because you were doing unrelated things, doesn't mean it's bad)
Alan Wake maybe

blazblue.

Beat you to it.

Half Life 2.

I know that graphics aren't everything but my last pc crapped out on me because of a power surge that fried everything except the cpu and ram - a 2tb hdd with anime also passed away XD[size=1](it's sad really)[/h] So i had to buy another pc since replacing the mobo and graphics card on the older one wasn't worth it... And since I was spending I decided to buy something decent.
I know that I've spent a lot to build this pc since all the parts were bought on ebay and there aren't sales on ebay unlike physical stores(Microcentre) or like newegg... adding to that the cost of shipping to an European country raises almost every parts price by ~50-60$ if not more... BTW how much did you spend on yours and what specs do you have? Mine cost around 1800$ inb4 3-4 times of what it would have cost in the US...
The 2TB is just for storing anime, manga and TV series so the 5900rpm speed doesn't hurt that much since there aren't many files moving around.

Dragon Age: Origins.
Mass Effect.

Here's the whole pc with the prices in the US i guess:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/YVh9
So i guess that 400$ were spent with shipping costs and higher prices... oh well still much much cheaper than buying at local stores which raise prices like there's no tomorrow. just an example - a reference 7950 was ~400$ :(

Uhh, those are no reasons to support nt playing good games with interesting graphics... that wasn't really anything.

Also, almost literally 3 times... I spent 700 on mine. Posted in australia, which is more expensive.
Amd phenom ii x4 955 be
8Gb 1600mhz vegeance ram
7850 msi 2gb oc
2tb 7200 seagate hdd
650w psu
Works perfectly

still, you didn't need to buy :
case
mobo
cpu cooler
and those alone are >400$
[size=1]also 3770k is better than 955be
iceq x2 7950 > msi 7850 oc [/h]

War Thunder. Bioshock Infinite. Minecraft. Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombies. Crysis 3. Guild Wars 2. Arma II: Combined Operations. Dayz (Needs Arma II: Combined Operations, free mod). Arma III. Feed the Beast. Steins;Gate VN. Total War: Shogun 2: FALL OF THE SAMURAI.

Fuck you, minesweeper is the best game ever, period.

Pro-tip: Buying identical HDD (model # + size, less restrictive with newer firmware) allows you to set up a RAID array, which can dramatically improve read/write performance and provides redundancy if one of your drives should ever bite the bullet.

Also never go with any manufacturer for your video card than XFX if you're building a high-end system.

Other than that, nice specs. If you want something that will push your hardware to it's limits, if only because of terribly inefficient code written by Czechs, try ARMA III.

Nothing else I can suggest that others haven't, really. Except for maybe Portal 2, Killing Floor, Borderlands 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, and Monaco. For now, that is.

Well no shit, I have them already... those were included in the $700 >.> I wouldn't be posting if I didn't have them. I was keeping the list short.
Case is an aerocool something.
Mobo is a Ga-970a-d3
Cpu cooler is a Zigmatech red scorpion (and no, you don't NEED one, the cpu's usually come stock with one)

And despite the 3770k being much better, and the 7950 being better than the 7850, I still slam games in high def. We did a 3d benchmarking thing, and got similar scores to a 7970, and got fairly average physics scores, cause the cpu is older, but it still did it fairly flawlessly

My nigga, I was about to recommend that.

Depends on what raid... Raid 0, yes.. but if one fails, you will lose everything.
Raid... 5 I think, you have one for backup, but it pretty much makes one drive redundant except for if one fails.

I'd say gigabyte is one of the better ones to head for (in australia at least) you get a decent length warranty from them, and they do have good quality cards.

There's are quite a few different types of RAID arrays, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10. I rarely run into 2, 3 or 4

10 (1+0), in my opinion, is pretty much the go to array for consumers, all the performance benefits of 0 with the mirroring capabilities of 1.

5 is generally the standard for corporate set-ups, block-level striping with distributed parity, in essence it requires all drives but one to be functional, meaning any of your 3+ drives could fail and you'd still be in the clear. A downside is that you'd suffer some performance loss while one of the drives is non-functional, that and you'd only get the storage capacity of one drive in exchange for three if you have three identical drives. But, when dealing with corporate data, this level of security is mandatory.

If you're really paranoid about data loss you could go with 6, block-level striping with double distributed parity, two drives could fail and you'd still be good to go, though this is normally only used within fairly large data centers.

Going with Gigabyte is a good compromise if you're dealing with a budget. I have very fond memories of their motherboards, a P4 my parents got me back in the day when they were top of the line still runs, 10 - 12 years later.

Still though, for video cards, no one can match XFX's long reputation of reliable, powerful products.

[font=Verdana]Farcry 3 because boobs.

(But seriously, it's because of the light effects.)[/font]

Yeah, I don't know all of them off hand, but 0 is pretty much the most common in normal builds from my understanding, and seems the better option, as you said.
And eh, I misjudged. Thought you didn't know what you were on about, but you do. Nice save.

Still, searched XFX on one of the best sites for parts in australia (PCCASEGEAR.com.au Seriously the cheapest I can get, it's where I get all my parts from) and it didn't show anything... showed some older 68's in google, but nothign present. Does XFX do anything current? Or are they more top end?

I didn't say that you don't have them... I just assumed that you had them from a previous build since you didn't mention them as parts that you bought + I wasn't aware of the low prices of the parts that you posted so I thought that just the parts that you posted cost ~700$ - my mistake.
Still, all you're providing are pc parts that are older/less powerful and thus cheaper than mine...
I know that there's a cpu cooler that comes with the cpu itself... but still when i stress tested with prime95 the temps got near 80c in less than 40min with the stock cooler, while with noctua after a more stressful test the temps didn't go higher than 58c after more than an hour -> so you see the point(possible future overclock capabilities) -> the same goes for the model of 7950(his iceq x2) that i bought: It has pretty good cooling and overclocking is possible. It can achieve/surpass stock performance of 7970 ghz edition.

Still from what I saw from the Australian site that you provided, the prices were higher than what i could find on ebay but maybe the final cost is lower because it is based in Australian and shipping is very low.