I’ll close out the year and have a Christmas post with specs lists. These are hardware lists with nothing on Windows. I really don’t know if I’d ask for a copy of Windows 7 or go with Windows 8.1. I’m leaning to Windows 8.1, though, given what I’ve written about it.
So now, if I were to buy a PC these days, it would have one of these 3 combinations:
| Intel Core i5 (Haswell) | AMD FX (Piledriver) | AMD APU (Richland) | |
| CPU | Intel core i5-4670K | AMD FX-6300 | AMD A10-6800K |
| MB | Z87 motherboard | AM3+ motherboard | FM2 motherboard |
| GPU | nVidia geForce GTX 760 | AMD Radeon R9-270 | (on-chip Radeon 8670D) |
| RAM | 2 x 4gb DDR3-1600 | 2 x 4gb DDR3-1866 | 2 x 4gb DDR3-2133 |
| SSD | 160 GB SSD | 160 GB SSD | 160 GB SSD |
| HDD | Seagate 1TB (2x in RAID 1) | Seagate 1TB (2x in RAID 1) | Seagate 1TB (2x in RAID 1) |
| ODD | dvd writer | dvd writer | bluray writer |
| MCR | 3.5" card reader | 3.5" card reader | 3.5" card reader |
| casing | Coolermaster 690 III | Coolermaster 690 III | Coolermaster Elite 361 |
| PSU | Coolermaster Silent Pro M2 700 | Coolermaster Silent Pro M2 700 | Coolermaster Silent Pro M2 600 |
| HSF | Coolermaster V8 GT | Coolermaster V6 GT | Coolermaster Vortex+ |
