Gaming Rig for WoW Player - Help!

liang852

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This is my first time building a computer. I'm not completing sure whether the parts are compatible with each other or if i am missing anything.
Any recommendations or suggestions are welcome! My budget is $900+ this computer is meant for gaming, primarily WoW and SC2.
Monitor size is 1600 x 900. I am interested in building the computer as soon as possible. I plan on overclocking once im more familiar with the computer.

Case: LIAN LI Lancool PC-K58W Black 0.8 mm SECC, Plastic + Mesh ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
HDD: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
$80 - PSU: NZXT HALE 90 HALE90-650-M 650W ATX 12V v2.2, EPS 12V v2.91 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply (BOUGHT)
GPU: MSI N460GTX Hawk GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500K
MOBO: ASUS P8P67-M PRO LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
DVD: ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner - Bulk - OEM

Thanks in advance!
 

atypicallemon

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You might want to check this out http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-directx-11-performance,2793.html it is tom's benchmarks of WOW cataclysm with different cpus and vid cards. Everything looks nice but for the price difference I would go with a ASUS EAH5850 DIRECTCU/2DIS/1GD5 Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ Eyefinity http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121375&cm_re=5850-_-14-121-375-_-Product 209.99 (179.99 after MIR) which is pretty close to what you are going to pay for the 460. It has slightly better performance for only $10 more.