Doug_the_Mug

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Hi, my current machine is currently on the way out and I am thinking of building an upgrade. As I am new to this I thought a bit of experienced advice would be wise, heres what I already had in mind:

Mobo: Asus P8Z68-V S1155 £129 http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-p8z68-v-s1155-intel-z68-ddr3-atx-7HXD.html?refs=469740000-473330000-42180000-4294944455-50626

CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K £165 http://www.dabs.com/products/intel-core-i5-2500k-3-30ghz-lga1155-6mb-79Q8.html

RAM: Corsair XMS3 4GB DDR3 1600MHz £31 http://www.dabs.com/products/corsair-xms3-4gb-ddr3-1600mhz-dimm-240-pin-76XF.html?refs=418700000-55250000-4294960364-42670000

PSU: Corsair Memory TX650 V2 650W £65 http://www.dabs.com/products/corsair-memory-tx650-v2-650w-enthusiastseries-7CHB.html?q=CMPSU-650TX

Case: Antec Dark Fleet DF-10 Mid Tower £55 http://www.dabs.com/products/antec-dark-fleet-df-10-mid-tower-gaming-case---black---no-psu-7KP0.html?refs=50882

HDD: Seagate 500GB Barracuda SATA-600 7200RPM £31 http://www.dabs.com/products/seagate-500gb-barracuda-sata-600-7200rpm-16mb-7C61.html?refs=4294946772-52100000-450300000-50410

Optical drive: Sony DVD-ROM 18X SATA £10 http://www.dabs.com/products/sony-dvd-rom-18x-sata-ddu1681s-0b-blk-74NQ.html

Network card: Edimax WiFi 802.11n 32-bit PCI £15 http://www.dabs.com/products/edimax-wifi-802-11n-32-bit-pci-adapter-card-6ZT2.html?refs=4294946755-50060000-4294946783

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium OEM 64-bit £75 http://www.dabs.com/products/microsoft-windows-7-home-premium-oem-64-bit-1pk-68YS.html?q=windows%207

Total: £580

I guess I just wanted to check that everything would be compatible, and that I'm not wasting any money anywhere/not budgeting enough. Overall budget is under £600, I intend on gaming on it eventually, things like Left4Dead, but right now its a bit of an emergency replacement so I will add a decent graphics card later.

Thanks a lot :)
 
Looks great, seems like you will want to SLI in future though so keep in mind that you wont want to get anything more powerful than a GTX 460/HD 6850 or GTX 560Ti or it is going to eat more than 650W in SLI.