Will all this work together?

Rebel6624

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Hi all i need some help with my first build. I'm trying to get as much bang for my buck as possible my budgets around 800$ so any advice on that end would help allot. I know i need help on picking out a graphics card and i'm not to sure about the motherboard. So anyway plez take a look at all that i choose and point out any mistakes or give any advice thanks ahead of time:

Motherboard: Intel BOXDX58SO2 Socket LGA1366 Motherboard - ATX, Socket B (LGA1366), Intel X58 Express, 1600MHz DDR3, SATA 6.0 Gb/s, RAID, Dual Gigabit LAN, SLI/CrossFireX Ready, USB 3.0

RAM: Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3 1333MHz Memory - Non-ECC, CL7, Unbuffered DIMM, 240-pin

Prosseser: Intel BX80601960 Core i7 960 Processor - 3.20GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 4.8GT/s QPI, HyperThreading, Quad Core, Bloomfield, LGA 1366, Retail

Hard drive: Seagate ST3750525AS Barracuda 7200.12 Hard Drive - 750GB, 3.5", SATA 6Gbps, 7200 RPM, 32MB

GPU: GTX 550 Ti

this is all ive chosen so far (the important parts i hope :sweat:)
 
Siggy 600$ build.

Just change the i3 2100 to an i5 2400 and your set. The total would be 670$. Saved tou a whole bunch of money for similar/better performance.

550 Ti review
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-550-ti-gf116-radeon-hd-5770,2892-6.html

As you can see the 550 Ti is worse than the 460 768mb version, the 460 768mb version is worse than the 6850. So 550 Ti<460 768mb<6850 1GB

460 768mb vs 6850
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/315?vs=291

As for CPU.

i5 2500K vs i7 960
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/100?vs=288

i5 2400 and 2500K are similar, only difference is the stock clock. Do you plan to overclock?
 

Rebel6624

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no i dont plan on overclocking yet maybe in the future thou. as i understand it i should change my GPU to something like this and my processor from a i7 to a i5 will i need to change my motherbored to?