2500k with geforce gtx 680 or 3570k with geforce 560 ti

go for the 2500k and 680.

What will you use for a motherboard and PSU?

Ivy bridge is a very small improvement over Sandy Bridge not to mention Ivy is actually a bit worse overclockers due to heat. 2500K + 680 all the way.

2500k is a Z68AP-D3 motherboard- didnt say a power supply on the website- worrying. and Asus P8Z77-V LX Motherboard with 750 Watt Branded Power Supply. hmm, wonder how upgradable those motherboards are.

2500K and 680. And if you're running at 1080p, you shouldn't really need to OC, anyway. It's hard to make a 2500K be the bottle neck.

the performance isn't too much between 2500k vs 3570k, but there is a massive performance from going to gtx 560ti to gtx 680.
no doubt 2500k + 680.

The Intel® Core™ i5-2500K and the GTX 680.

i7 3570K + eVGA 680 + MSI Z77-G65 (or Asus Sabertooth Z77). Throw-in a nice after market cooler. Yes, IB suffers from heat issues if you over clock. But, you should be fine as long as you do not overstep the line. General opinion is 4.2 - 4.5 (max) would keep the volts under control. As long as the volts do not exceed Intel's limit, you would be fine.

Pay $20, get your i5 3570K protected with Intel's amazing tuning protection plan
http://click.intel.com/tuningplan/.

I;m confused.com the difference in price on the cpu's are about £10-20 and on the gpu's are like £200?? Why not get the 680 and the 3570??

the 680 is a waste of money, when you look at the 670's performance.. its so close as to be negligible but costs way way less.
the 2600k is also a better choice for general use... some newer games will benefit from hyperthreading. yes most games wont use it but its better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it...
it will oc just as well and perform pretty much identically as the 3 series ivy because it can oc better and that little extra will close down any gap that there is performance wise...
so i would say neither...
get the 2600k and a gtx 670. overall your looking at pretty much the same performance but for less money overall...

No point in getting i7 2600K. If you really do not want IB, i7 2500K. Period.

However, the choice should be i7 3570K, GTX 670 (if not GTX 680) plus Intel's fine tune plan protection for $20.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8PFM

Wow, this is easy 2500K + 680, the difference between the 3570 and 2500k is closer to nothing, the difference between a 560ti and 680 is not even debateable.

i found out that the same store for 50 pound more do an extra terror byte hard drive and have the gtx 680 with the i5 3570k. but if the 2500k is not much different to the 3570k then all im getting is the expanded harddrive right?

That combo sounds like a pretty good deal, actually. Which 1TB HDD is it?

In the olden days a bigger hard drive would add to the performance of the computer. Is this still true? will a TB extra increase performance?

Not really, that's why I asked which 1TB HDD it is.

its a 2tb Sata Hard Drive. The 1tb is also a Sata

What brand and model?

both are S-ATA/300. didnt have any other info.

Hmm, that's strange. I really can't tell you if the 2TB drive is any faster, then. Even if it was, it wouldn't be MUCH faster, but it would be very helpful to know what RPM both drives are.

In any case, that deal sound pretty good, but if it's a slow drive, it's not so good. No info; no way of knowing.

o thats the interface

Well, they're obviously gonna be SATA II or III, so that doesn't tell us much. SATA II (or SATA/300 as it's listed) is fine for HDD's though.

excellent thanks!

No problem.