Time to build a new desktop, could use some suggestions for CPU/Mobo

[Synergy]

I have always been a AMD guy as well. I have a Phenom XII 965@3.4 with 4Gb of ram that I build last year and it works for anything I do. The last thing I want to add is a SSD but gun stuff always takes my money away

Just what I am looking to buy,
ASUS M5A97 EVO Socket AM3+ 970 ATX AMD Motherboard $124.00
&
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz $129.00

8Gb of RAM and start with a Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 7,200 RPM SATA 6.0 and a SSD drive

[Synergy]

hehe you are welcome, but keep in mind.... my dual hard drive RAID came at 194 mbs average speed. Most SSD's today will do around 250 mbs while having 32 times less space and costing 2-3 times more. Pick an SSD that hauls at 350+ mbs if you want a quickly loading PC.

560ti is more than sufficient for 99.8% of modern games, so for other applications it will pass in flying colors

Oh and I am running AMD processor and card with no regrets or complaints.

I could just run a OCZ Agility 3 SATA III 60 Gb SSD since I have 2.0TB NAS.
The OCZ
Read Speed Up to 525MBps (SATA 6Gb/s); Up to 280MBps (SATA 3Gb/s)
Write Speed Up to 475MBps (SATA 6Gb/s); Up to 260MBps (SATA 3Gb/s)

[jonzer77]

Just what I am looking to buy,
ASUS M5A97 EVO Socket AM3+ 970 ATX AMD Motherboard $124.00
&
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz $129.00

8Gb of RAM and start with a Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 7,200 RPM SATA 6.0 and a SSD drive

I am still rocking the mobo that came with the package lol. It was $189 for the mobo and proc at Fry's since I didn't have any major needs for a better mobo. I mainly wanted the processor because it wasn't overly expensive and still good at encoding video. I wanted to make "copies" of my blu rays and encode them so they were still HD but not 33gbs a piece. That with a hyper 212 does a good job of cooling the proc even in the summer, granted it doesnt get too hot here by the ocean lol.

[resident-shooter]

I could just run a OCZ Agility 3 SATA III 60 Gb SSD since I have 2.0TB NAS.
The OCZ
Read Speed Up to 525MBps (SATA 6Gb/s); Up to 280MBps (SATA 3Gb/s)
Write Speed Up to 475MBps (SATA 6Gb/s); Up to 260MBps (SATA 3Gb/s)

imho 60gigs is eh for W7+ 2 or 3 large programs that you use very often, but it should work

[JDay]

Oh and I am running AMD processor and card with no regrets or complaints.

I have a Phenom II 955 x4 in my desktop and an i5-560m in my laptop. The i5 is almost at fast as the Phenom II yet it only has half the cores and is a mobile processor. Unless Bulldozer is a game changer my next desktop will have an Intel CPU.

[JDay]

I could just run a OCZ Agility 3 SATA III 60 Gb SSD since I have 2.0TB NAS.
The OCZ
Read Speed Up to 525MBps (SATA 6Gb/s); Up to 280MBps (SATA 3Gb/s)
Write Speed Up to 475MBps (SATA 6Gb/s); Up to 260MBps (SATA 3Gb/s)

I'd spend the extra $8 and get the Vertex 3 60GB.

[resident-shooter]

I have a Phenom II 955 x4 in my desktop and an i5-560m in my laptop. The i5 is almost at fast as the Phenom II yet it only has half the cores and is a mobile processor. Unless Bulldozer is a game changer my next desktop will have an Intel CPU.

I had several intel CPU's and they are overpriced.

[BOFH]

I built a new PC a few months back based on a Gigabyte X58A-UD3R with an Intel i7 950 and its been a great system for the money. The CPU will run at 4.2 GHz without issue, scores about 12500 using the 64bit Geekbench. As a bonus it runs OSX without issue.