YAGamingBuildT

[fire hazard]

1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.

Gaming

2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread

$1600

3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.

USA

4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc.

Nope

5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.

None
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.

Yup

7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.

OCing the i5
8. What resolution YOU plan on gaming with.

Depends

9. WHEN do you plan to build it?

ASAP
10. Don't ask for a build configuration critique or rating if you are thin skinned.

Bring it


Current build parts

CPU i5-2500K

Mobo GIGABYTE UD3 B3

GPU EVGA GTX 570

RAM G.SKILL DDR3 PC1600 8GB (2x4GB)

SSD Corsair Force 120GB

HDD Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB

PSU Corsair 650W

Case HAF 922

Hey guys. I'm prob going to pull the trigger today on my first build in 3 or 4 years. LMK what you think about what I've posted above. Also I'm looking for a recommendation on a monitor and some speakers. Willing to spend $300-350 on the monitor and $100-120 or less on the speakers.

 

[mfenn]

First off, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to nicely list and link your parts. I'd save $20 by going with some RAM without annoying heatspreaders, but other than that, you're looking good!

For a ~$300 monitor, your main decision is whether or not you want the image quality of IPS (Dell U2311H) or the response times of 120Hz (LG W2363D).

 

[jterrell]

I am looking at the same build except with a 2gb 6950 and a 932 case.

Newegg has tons of 1155 mobos now all of a sudden.

 

[fire hazard]

First off, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to nicely list and link your parts. I'd save $20 by going with some RAM without annoying heatspreaders, but other than that, you're looking good!

For a ~$300 monitor, your main decision is whether or not you want the image quality of IPS (Dell U2311H) or the response times of 120Hz (LG W2363D).

You linked me back to my mobo instead of new RAM . I agree though, I hate the heatspreaders on that set. Whats the popular set among overclockers right now? I know cheaper RAM usually does just as well as more expensive RAM but I've been outta the game for a while so I wasn't sure if that still applies with DDR3 and all.

And on the monitor.. I'll prob go with the Dell.

 

[mnewsham]

RAM

 

[llee]

If you're just gaming, I don't see the point in buying a hard drive. Could you explain? I see you already skipped the ODD, good choice.

This is a pretty good case and IMO looks way better than those cruddy HAF cases. It also has USB 3.0 ports for your new SB build. Make sure you use promo code: HARDOCPX3X9E by tomorrow to get $15 off.

 

[mnewsham]

If you're just gaming, I don't see the point in buying a hard drive. Could you explain?

I'm not sure i understand this question...

 

[llee]

I'm not sure i understand this question...

If his primary purpose is gaming, his SSD should take care of that. Unless he's ripping galleries of movies or FRAPping it up, a hard drive would be pretty useless.

 

[mnewsham]

If his primary purpose is gaming, his SSD should take care of that. Unless he's ripping galleries of movies or FRAPping it up, a hard drive would be pretty useless.

-looks at my hard drive-

I have 220GB in games installed right now :$

And then another 15GB on the SSD.

 

[Davidh373]

If his primary purpose is gaming, his SSD should take care of that. Unless he's ripping galleries of movies or FRAPping it up, a hard drive would be pretty useless.

Do you only own 4 games?

My steam library is 600+GB... and many other people have huge libraries as well. I also own 12 hard copy games including WoW, which with all the patches is around 42GB last time I checked... How is even a quarter of that going to fit on a 120GB (unformatted) SSD?

 

[mnewsham]

Do you only own 4 games?

My steam library is 600+GB... and many other people have huge libraries as well. I also own 12 hard copy games including WoW, which with all the patches is around 42GB last time I checked... How is even a quarter of that going to fit on a 120GB (unformatted) SSD?

Yea i just looked at steam and my 220GB is only my installed stuff i have 40 games i DONT have installed at the moment and i havent even thought about installing my hard copy games

 

[llee]

Wow, I really bit the cheese on this one. I only keep 4-5 games (30GB) installed at any time. I didn't realize that others might be using up hundreds of gigabytes of data for games that they occasionally play. I guess we all have our tastes and preferences.

 

[Davidh373]

The thing is, I actually touch about 60% of my games every month. I tend to jump around a lot unless I've got a new game like Batman AA where I beat it 3 times through without blinking.

 

[Athadeus]

I use 30gb on my 120gb ssd, no games installed to HDD. I think the average enthusiast GAMER (not hardware) can be okay with 120gb SSD.

 

[mfenn]

You linked me back to my mobo instead of new RAM . I agree though, I hate the heatspreaders on that set. Whats the popular set among overclockers right now? I know cheaper RAM usually does just as well as more expensive RAM but I've been outta the game for a while so I wasn't sure if that still applies with DDR3 and all.

And on the monitor.. I'll prob go with the Dell.

Sorry about that, I intended to link to the one that mnewsham suggested.

RAM