System Builder Marathon, Dec. 2011: $1200 Enthusiast PC

12:00 AM - December 20, 2011 by Don Woligroski Table of contents 1. AMD's FX-6100 Gets Its Big Chance 2. CPU, Motherboard, And Cooler 3. Video Cards, Power Supply, And Case 4. Memory, Hard Drive, And Optical Drive 5. Assembly And Overclocking 6. Test System And Benchmarks 7. Benchmark Results: Synthetics 8. Benchmark Results: Media Encoding 9. Benchmark Results: Productivity 10. Benchmark Results: Crysis And Just Cause 2 11. Benchmark Results: F1 2010 And Metro 2033 12. Power And Temperature Benchmarks 13. FX-6100: A Surprising Processor Bottleneck

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