re: Is this custom built computer good?

Thanks for the responses.

I appreciate it.

Looking forward to anyone else that has an opinion.

Gonna keep this short since I doubt you'll take any of this advice. Also had a long shitty day.

Based on the build specs alone, especially if he built this from scratch (i.e., this wasn't the culmination of several upgrades), this guy is kind of stupid.

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Specs:
AMD Radeon 5850 graphics card

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I had one of these briefly. 5850 will perform about on par with a 7770. You'll be able to run games, mostly at medium settings. You should be able to run starcraft 2 at high/ultra settings.

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12 GB ram corsair dominator ddr3

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The frick is this? 3 sticks of 4GB? Does he think socket 1150 is triple channel despite the 4 DIMM slots with the clearly labeled channels?

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Seagate barricuda 500 GB hard drive

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Probably should find out what fricking year the Barracuda was manufactured.

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Asus motherboard (don't know specific model- is this important?)

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Find out the model. Not because it will affect what you should offer, but because I want to see if he is even more retarded than suspected.

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Intel i5 4670R CPU

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... Typo? Or did he really get a Crystal Well? I bet that Intel Iris Pro graphics 5200 die is being put to excellent use. Where did he even buy this fricking thing? They aren't available on the retail market. But since you said it was 3.2GHz, I don't know. The 4670R has a stock clock of 3.0 and a turbo of 3.7... Did he use that liquid cooler to get a whole 200MHz more out of the stock frequency?

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Liquid cooled

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Details? I want to see what 1337 liquid cooler he has on the monster 4670R.

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Custom cooler master case with adjustable LEDs
System temperature diagnostics screen
5 fans

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Pics? I want to guess his age based on how the case looks. It would be fun.

What brand Power Supply?

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How much would you pay?

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I would not buy it. Especially if that's seriously a fricking Crystal Well in a gaming machine. But it would be at least a "playable" awkward little fricker, so let's say $350-400. You don't need his crusty arse keyboard.

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jimmies a little rustled?

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By what?

Just tired and unmedicated.

peoples stupidity with computer building. usually you are chock full of great help with not one iota of malicious content.

that post spoke otherwise haha

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I am definitely tired of seeing Craigslist rigs with an extra chromosome, though.

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It's crazy what people think their machines are worth with 3 year old hardware and unoptimized components.

I trust myself and won't buy shite without a board discussion.