Hey everyone! sorry I haven't been my old active self anymore but felt like letting you guys know that there are some really good sales going on at newegg, cyberpowerpc, and ibuypower.
I just bought a new machine from cyberpowerpc, that would have cost me over $1000 handpicking the parts and building myself, and it's coming pre-built!
This is what I got:
CASE: CyberPowerPC X-Titan 100 MID-Tower Gaming Case w/ Side-Window Panel
CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.50 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ CPU 8MB L2 Cache & Turbo Core Technology
HDD: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD
MEMORY: 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/1866MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG V2)
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 AMD 970 ATX w/ GbLAN, 2 Gen2 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 2 PCI
POWERSUPPLY: 600 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready
VIDEO: AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB GDDR5 16X PCIe 3.0
HEADSET: ZALMAN ZM-HPS200 GAMING HEADSET [+0]
FREEBIE_VC1: AMD NEVER SETTLE FOREVER SILVER: 2 Free Games [+0]
KEYBOARD: (Keyboard & Mouse Combo) Razer Cyclosa Gaming Keyboard & Abyssus Gaming Mouse [+0]
It only cost me $755 including shipping. And one of the free games it comes with is the new Thief.
Also, to anyone that goes to cyberpowerpc to take advantage of these sales, make sure you mess around with a few different configurations, specifically with different starting bundles, as this will affect your end-price.
To give an example, this is one of their pre-built bundles with "free" shipping, http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Gamer_Dragon - on the FPS estimate it gets a benchmark of 24 with it's lowest fps being Tomb Raider ultimate at 9 fps, and it's highest fps estimate of 49 on Starcraft II medium settings. This is $765.
This is the one I went with, http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/saved/1FTCHV, it's $680 without free shipping, was $755 after shipping. This estimates to have a benchmark of 134, with it's lowest fps estimate at 34 on Tomb Raider ultimate, and it's highest, also on Tomb raider, at 116 fps on normal.