Help Shaving a few Euro's off the price

Ant-Dub · May 3, 2013

Hi,

With some help from a few people I've ended up with the below Gaming setup, but I'd like to shave a few € off the costs if I can without losing much if any of the performance.

Any suggestions?

The GPU is the only thing I can't change as I'm getting this for a ridiculous price.

I haven't started looking for a Monitor yet or Keyboard & Mouse, any suggestions on these would also be great.

Tower
Cooler Master CM Storm Enforcer - USB3 (SGC-1000-KWN1)
Motherboard
ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 S1155 Intel Z77 DDR3 ATX ( Z77 Extreme 4 )
CPU
Intel Core i5-3570K ( i5-3570K )
CPU Cooler
Coolermaster Seidon 120M, 120*27mm radiator, PWM 600~2400 RPM ( RL-S12M-24PK-R1 )
Graphics Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SUPERCLOCKED 2048MB GDDR5 DVI HDMI DP Graphics Card ( 02G-P4-2662-KR )
Memory
G.Skill 8GB (2 x 4GB) Ripjaws-X DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz CL9 ( F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL )
PSU
Corsair 750W Enthusiast Series TX750 Modular PSU ( CP-9020040-UK )
Hard Drives
SAMSUNG 256GB 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/SEC INT ( MZ-7PD256BW )
WD 1TB CAVIAR BLUE 64MB 7200RPM 3.5" D ( WD10EALX )
Keyboard & Mouse
?????????
Monitor
????????

Thanks in advance.

13thmonkey · May 3, 2013

lose the water cooling, a good air cooler (hyper 212 perhaps) would be quieter, cooler and cheaper.
PSU is too big get a good 500-600 unless you plan to SLI in the future.

garrettk4 · May 3, 2013

Could drop the Samsung 840 Pro to the other version Samsung 840 and cut some euros there.

Ant-Dub · May 3, 2013

13thmonkey :

Hi Monkey,

Thanks for the suggestions.

Do you think its worth it saving €16 to switch from the Water Cooler to the Air Cooler you suggested?
I could save €14 by dropping from a 750 to a 650 and possibly another €14 to go down to 550, again worth it?

Ant

g-unit1111 · May 3, 2013

Post your country of origin and the store that you are buying from and that will help to suggest parts. If you don't know of one use the master sticky at the top of this forum.

13thmonkey · May 3, 2013

Ant-Dub :

you wanted a few euros, that's 44 which is 5% of the price, maybe 7%, thats a GPU upgrade, therefore worth it (not that you want to do that, although waiting till may might be great idea) none of those components are adding value beyond their cheaper options so why pay for it, just make sure you pick a good PSU.

Ant-Dub · May 3, 2013

garrettk4 :

g-unit1111 :

Hi,

I'm in Ireland but that won't make a difference as I'm getting all of the items through suppliers in the UK + Ireland that I deal with that, are doing me good deals on.
The current set up is costing €864.

Dabs.ie is one I was checking out to start me off.

Ant-Dub · May 3, 2013

13thmonkey :

Ant-Dub :

you wanted a few euros, that's 44 which is 5% of the price, maybe 7%, thats a GPU upgrade, therefore worth it (not that you want to do that, although waiting till may might be great idea) none of those components are adding value beyond their cheaper options so why pay for it, just make sure you pick a good PSU.

Suggestions noted, thanks. They'll all add up.

Ant-Dub · May 3, 2013

Seems I stick to 1 or 2 games for a long time I'm gonna drop the SSD down from 256gb to 128gb and save 10%.
Gonna leave the PSU as I'll only save 1.5% and it'll leave me room to add another GPU further down the line.

Thanks for the advice so far guys.

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