Pipson said:
that is a nice looking mouse, whats on your take on it? compared to the one im posting below
Here my set up that i should be purchasing in one week or so but, the ? means unsure atm and still doingresearch
Xion Predator 970 Gaming Series Mid Tower Case w/ 2 External Removable HDD Bays
Maximum Case Cooling Fans, blue led
AMD FX-8350 / 8320 ?
Asetek 510LC Liquid Cooling system w/ 120mm Radiator
ASUS M5A97 V2 / Asus M5A99X EVO ? (atm im leaning more towards the m5a97
4GB (2x2GB) PC12800 DDR3/1600mhz Dual Channel Memory (Kingston Hyper X Blu Series w/Heat Spreader)
8GB (2x4GB) PC12800 DDR3/1600mhz Dual Channel Memory (Kingston Hyper X Blu Series w/Heat Spreader)
600 Watts Power Supplies (Corsair 600 Watts CX600 Gaming Power Supply, 80+)
VTX3D HD 7870 Black Boost Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
500GB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s Cache Hard Drive (Single Hard Drive)
128 GB Plextor PX-M5S Series SATA III Gaming MLC Solid State Disk
24X Double Layer Dual Format DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE. (BLACK Colour)
Windows 7
Razer Deathstalker Expert Gaming Keyboard ?
Razer Deathadder 2013 Essential Ergonomic USB Gaming Mouse with Rubber Side Grips ?
Benq GL2450HM 24" LED LCD HDMI Monitor- Speakers
Ok so the mouse I went with because it has 40 programmable options for gaming along with 7 different LED colors you can choose from, plus it had that black matte finish incase you get sweaty palms and matched my tower so for my look it will be black and blue.
The Monitor you had BenQ i notice they have gotten alot of good reveiws and the specs look pretty decent so 16.7 mil colors and 4ms refresh how ever the 20 on contrast ratio you may want to look more into for gaming, the higher the CR the better the gaming so for my selection the ASUS VX238H has the 16.7 mil colors with a 1ms refresh rate (Im told anything under 6ms is good) along with a 80,000,000:1
contrast ratio which is excellent for gaming and that specific model is getting dam good reveiws pretty much every where you look. but its a 23inch I know for the smae specs on a 24inch you are looking at 10-20$ more.
The processor I decided after fighting back and fourth with my self with the i5 3570K. The FX-8350 was getting a really good reveiw from cpubenchmark higher then the previos AMDs and i5s now for gaming it was 50/50 compared to the i5 depends onwhat game , the thing i noticed tho is alot of the newer games like crysis and far cry 3 were doing better where as the older games like skyrim were doing better on the i5. in the end they are both great processors but since im building a box to be solid for the future of gaming I went with the 8-core since it looks like alot of the gaming companys will be forced to make more multi core games because of the PS4 and Xbox one will both be 8-core units. The future to me i think is in the 8-core.
The water cooling was one of the first things I looked into on my selections and for what im gonna be doing is just a single GPU with no OC cpu and on the forums including on this site they advised water cooling isnt even needed for that setup infact even with a OC 4.2 - 4.5 it isnt really needed. So that means less maintenance with airflow setup and Im all about that so im getting some pimped out led fans and my case has a top mount fan so that should be more then fine for me or even if i decide to oc it a lil in the future.
That mobo ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0 AM3+ you should check out the reveiws of it on newegg that is what changed my mind to buy it, alot of happy people even with OC and i think i saw some doing dual GPU on it aswel, the only thing tho try and confirm your memory works well on the mobo before you get it. I know for me since im going with 1866 sticks that were not listed in the manual as recommended for that mobo i decided to get them because someone in the forums for that mobo on newegg and installed them and they ran just fine, cool ass sticks too they have built in leds hehehehe. And just make sure the memory is dual channel i recommend 2X4 sticks of 8gb nothing more then that is needed.
The keyboard was TUFF funny enough, the way i play it with my left hand on the 10key so i would have to move my keyboard over to the far left, the keyboard i selected fixes that by having a gaming key section on the left side.
I like your ssd along with hdd i was originally gonna do that but im already over budget as is hehehe , in the future tho ill be doing that, just make sure to look up how to install ssd and hdd into a new build i know they have a specific way to be setup like the hdd does not get plugged in until after the ssd has windows installed and i think even updaten.
The video card you are in the correct spot that 7870 or GTX 660 or higher is recommened to play the most gpu intensive game out there right now Crysis 3, so for a good rig built to last deffinately get a 270$ or higher gpu. I went with the GTX 660 Ti OC for 279.00$ becuase of the reveiws on it alone.