I'm putting together a budget gamer, and I'd like opinions on this set up. Concerns would be, OC the 2500k on the Asrock board(adequate board, heatsink?) looking for 4.0-4.5 on cpu. Ram good choice? I mostly just want to know if there are better choices near the price range of the items listed? Most choices were made by looking at newegg most purchased items in there perspective catagories, at the approximate price I'd like to pay. Help me fine tune this purchase.
Budget - about $500-$550
What country - US
brand preference - None
Old parts - 7200rpm sata drive (500GB), Win XP
Shopping - newegg
Games - Guild wars2
WHEN do you plan to build it? - 3weeks
Gaming Resoulution - not sure it's for my son he is not a super high res gamer, right now on an old Radeon 4850. Probably has it on 1024 0r 1280 medium to high settings(19" monitor)
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115072
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157293
G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231416
EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130625
CORSAIR Builder Series CX500 V2 500W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139027
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1 "Heatpipe Direct Contact"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835103065
Total: $570. plus some rebates bringing it down another $45. or so.
All this said it would be nice to spend less on the cpu like the Intel Core i3-2120 Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz LGA, priced a $100 less then the 2500. Does the i3-2120 have any OC potential? between the i3-2120 and the GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB which would be the bottleneck?
Budget - about $500-$550
What country - US
brand preference - None
Old parts - 7200rpm sata drive (500GB), Win XP
Shopping - newegg
Games - Guild wars2
WHEN do you plan to build it? - 3weeks
Gaming Resoulution - not sure it's for my son he is not a super high res gamer, right now on an old Radeon 4850. Probably has it on 1024 0r 1280 medium to high settings(19" monitor)
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115072
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157293
G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231416
EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130625
CORSAIR Builder Series CX500 V2 500W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139027
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1 "Heatpipe Direct Contact"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835103065
Total: $570. plus some rebates bringing it down another $45. or so.
All this said it would be nice to spend less on the cpu like the Intel Core i3-2120 Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz LGA, priced a $100 less then the 2500. Does the i3-2120 have any OC potential? between the i3-2120 and the GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB which would be the bottleneck?
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