Budget Build Review

mind telling us your budget, preferred store to buy from and what your pc will be used for?

Sure thing.

This will be as close to a gaming machine as I can get (hopefully decent for BF3) with some photo and audio work done on it as well. Nothing major though. I would eventually like to serve out media to other devices around the house.

I chose these products based on maximizing performance and budget. So I chose a sub $200 Mobo and GPU. The RAM is based mostly on the bench testing found in a Tom's comparison article from earlier this year. The i7 CPU is not really an option to choose from. I will end up with it due to outside circumstances.

No preferred store as long as they are well reviewed and priced. Although I will say that I am a bit partial to NewEgg.

Thanks again for your input.

go ahead with what you picked out

I'd go for the 560Ti over the 560. Not much of an increase in price, but a much better card.

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you are on a budget but still managed i7-2700k  
that's good
if you do gaming then try to include ssd

Ya the i7 2700k is available to me through a very special deal. That's actually what prompted this build. I just couldn't pass up this CPU for the cost.

If you're not paying full price for the i7 2700k, stick with it. If you are, drop down to an i5 2500k. There just as good, if not better for gaming.

since you are getting it at low price then do not leave this opportunity
2700k is best stick with it, it is also good for general purpose and support hyper threading too
take a look of this
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Go for radeon hd 6950 ddr5 graphic card. It has much higher performance than gtx560 or gtx560ti. And price difference is very low. about 2000 INR.

This topic has been moved from the section CPU & Components to section Systems by Mousemonkey

How about this card? I've never owned an XFX but again I don't know if I can pass up a special purchase on this card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

*EDIT - I just noticed that this card is PCIE 2.1 x16. Is this a mismatch for the board listed above?

Best answer selected by nickybh.

Thanks again to everyone who gave me their input. As you will see I did take some recommendations.

Here is my build.

Asus P8P67 EVO
Intel Core i7 2700k
Geil EVO Corsa 16 GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1333
XFX HD 6950 2GB DDR5 Double D
Corsair TX750 PSU
Corsair 600TM Case
Corsair H60 CPU liquid cooling

Legacy SATA HDDs

Does anyone have any experience with OC in a system with similar build? Or a reference I could look into for potential OC of the system? I have looked around a bit but most have quite different systems.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks again.