New Gaming Project

[Apprentrice5]

Hi Guys,

I'm soon (hopefully) going to be getting a decent paid job and am hoping to do one final PC build before puting money together to save for a house of my own lol. i have been browsing the web for a few days and have come up with the following spec. im aiming to spend no more than £2000, im currently coming in under that, but just wondering what your opinions on the build will be and if you have any improvements i could make to it.

CPU - i5 3570
Motherboard - Asrock Z77 Extreme6
RAM - Corsair 16Gb 1866 Vengeance
Primary Drive - Samsung 256Gb 840 Pro Series
GPU - 2 EVGA GTX 660ti Superclocked+ 3GB (SLI)
PSU - OCZ ZX Series 1250 Fully Modular

I'm Stuck on 3 Cases:
NZXT Phantom (White)
Coolermaster Cosmos 2
CM Storm Stryker

For CPU Cooling with the NZXT and the Stryker i'd be looking at a BEQuiet Dark PRO 2, and with the Cosmos i'd look at the H100.

Any response will be greatly appreciated

 

[Erick Aguilar]

Why get 2 660's when you can get a 680 or a 7970?

 

[Apprentrice5]

I'd kinda like a dual card setup

 

[paulpicks21]

You could save a bit on the psu, 1250watt is overkill. A high quality Corsair or Antec 850watt will be plenty.

 

[Apprentrice5]

Always up for saving money any particular one you would suggest. I'm looking for a fully modular one

 

[chris1neji]

As someone else mention I would consider a single powerful card over two running in sli/crossfire configuration. I personally haven't seen or ran into this issue but I visit other forums people with duo cards do run into more problems or issues. point being single = works better and is less headaches.

Another thing are you sure 256GB will be enough storage for you especially with music, games, videos, documents ? Some modern games today are easily 10 - 20 GB's.

 

[Apprentrice5]

Thanks for the reply chris, regarding the hard drive i will be using some from my current machine (apologies forgot to put it in OP)

And for the GPU what card would you suggest ?

 

[Apprentrice5]

Slight Alteration to the original spec, no difference in price but with a few different things

CPU - i7 3820
MOBO - Asus P9X79 Deluxe
CPU Cooler - Corsair H100
RAM - 16Gb Corsair Vengeanced 1866Mhz
Boot Drive - OCZ Vector 256Gb
GPU - EVGA GTX 680 FTW 4Gb
PSU - Corsair Professional AX860
CASE - NZXT Phantom

Any thoughts?

 

[Gary]

Looks good, I prefer HAF cases by Coolermaster though

http://www.coolermaster.com/category.php?category_id=3584

 

[Spidey1976]

I have the same mobo and a Corsair AX series PSU (AX850) - Built this spec back in May '12 and went with the i7-3930K and the GTX580 - been very happy with the set up so far... running Skyrim on ultra and creating Blu Ray disks from a 1080p video cam.

I don't know much about the sandy's, but I keep hearing good things about the 3770K