If you're that new to the game just practice on pubs (or dm/mge) and maybe lobbies. No point in clogging up the newbie mixes if you're really just new to the game. It should be for learning competitive, not just noobs who think they might later want to get into it.
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Why would you spend 2k on a pc and not bother to overclock it? A 680 is one of the biggest wastes of money you could get, a 7970 or even a 7950 would be faster. Hell you could get two of these 7950s for the same price. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202030.
For psu go with a seasonic, especially since you're ready to dish out $120 on a no name brand one that's only 80 plus. This one is pretty good with 750w 80+ gold fully modular.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151087

But I guess you don't have to crossfire (micro stuttering, even though its really not a big issue anymore), so than a 900w psu is going to be way overkill. If you need to make a build in 3 years that needs that much power (which it won't since things are getting more power efficient, not the opposite), its more than likely that the technology will become cheaper (like most things in computer hardware). Future proofing your system is stupid. Build it for what you actually need right now, not in a few years. Watch linus' video on it if you don't believe me.. it's just a stupid idea.
The only advantage the 3770k has over the 3570k (which would even still be dumb for you if you're not OCing, get the cheaper non K version) is that it has hyper threading which mainly just helps in video editing and multi threaded programs. For general gaming it won't make much of a difference at all. Definitely not worth the extra $100 you're spending on it...

16gb of ram is overkill unless video editing, or for some reason playing 10 games at once. The only reason to even spend $2000 on a pc like this is if you NEED to play in ultra settings on all of these games on multi monitors. A 7870 with a phenom ii 955 would be able to play any of those games (bioshock, guild wars, etc) fine. Those aren't even very graphics intensive games. Do you need to have 80-90 frames per second in games? Is that worth it to you over say 40-50? The most price efficient price (based on testing, read the tomshardware articles system builder marathon articles, which compare the performance of different price range builds, $600, $800 and $100 and the best value was the $800. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/build-a-pc-overclocking-gaming,3440.html) is $800 approx. For $2000 you're really not getting much more performance for your money.

again the DOA gpus is not because the company amd did anything wrong, that has to do with the manufacturer (msi, asus, gigabyte, etc) or the vendor (newegg, amazon, etc.).
Do you have a 120hz monitor to be able to view all of this at? If not than you definitely shouldn't need a 680, unless you're doing 3 monitors at 60hz.

Wait i thought all those fov things could allow you to do wallhax and crazy shit like see behind yourself. I'm going tostick with the stock 90 degrees that looks sketchy.

thx :)

Lol ^

Go to micro center to get the 3770k for $230 instead of $300+. Much better deal. Also, the fact that you got a DOA card doesn't mean anything. Usually that's just the vendor's fault. For example I bought a msi 660 ti from newegg and it was DOA, but ordering the same card from amazon it was fine. Not that newegg is a bad company, but apparently amazons version of the packaging was better•
That case is such a waste of money lmao, $160 for a case lolz. but whatever your choice.
But 680 + 3770k will be pretty nice, though a 8350 + 7970 would be much better especially when you started streaming and such.

but whatever, waste your money. Lolz. A $800 build would work just fine, even a $500 one.

WANT SO MUCH. MOVE TO BOSTON. PLS GOOBY

How do you even disable aero? I know my razr game booster automatically did it in some games, but I'd like to permanently do it.

By far my favorite song ever ^

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Holy crap how did you get that field of view? Graphics looks like anus but the FOV is nice. Also what hud? Like the croshair, looks nice.

happens to me too
I can get over 100 200 fps in other games, hell my computer can do 40fps stable in metro 2033 maxed out at 1080p, but tf2 goes down from 50fps and then up to 120 (cap it at 132, probably could go to 400fps at some times).
Ithink its just because tf2 is badly optomized, and more cpu reliant.

My god I hate ashville ^
But maps like snakewater process gully and gpit are good, along with 6s viaduct.

>get a pc

KN hud looks nice, I liked shlaners modification of it (now he uses kbn which I dislike). Gmang doesn't look that good but the damage indicators and health numbers are really clear and easy to read.