Hi! I'm building my first gaming PC probably mid-late summer, and I have all the parts selected for the most part, but I'm still tweaking it right up until purchase time.
I want to use this pretty much exclusively for gaming. I would be playing games like Battlefield 3, Crysis, Mass Effect, GTA. Mostly modern shooters and action-adventures. I want this build to MAX any game. Battlefield -> Ultra Settings, Crysis -> Very High, etc.
My preferred site is newegg.
These are the parts I have chosen so far.
Case - Cooler Master HAF X
CPU - Intel Core i5-2500K
CPU Cooler - Cooler Master Hyper 212+
Motherboard - Asus P8Z68-V Pro Gen3
RAM - G. Skill Ripjaw 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600
Graphics Card - EVGA GeForce GTX 680
System Drive - Crucial M4 128GB
Storage Drive - Seagate Barracuda 1TB
Optical Drive - Asus 24x DVD Burner
Power Supply - Corsair AX750 750W 80+ Gold
Monitor - Asus VH238H 23" LCD 1080p
Total - $1847
I want to keep this build between $1500-2000, obviously cheaper being better.
For the CPU, I will probably get the i5-3570K Ivy Bridge and a new Z77 board to go with it, as I won't be building until after Ivy Bridge is supposed to be released. I was thinking this Asus board.
I also am probably going to be getting the EVGA Superclocked GTX 680, once it is available on newegg.
The only other thing I'm still unsure about is the CPU cooler. I don't know what to get out of these three: the Hyper 212+, X6 Elite, or TPC-812 (not yet released)
Any and ALL advice is greatly appreciated. I want this build to be able to max ANY game for quite some time before I need an upgrade. Any recommendations I will look at, as I am always tweaking this build. Thank you in advance!
I want to use this pretty much exclusively for gaming. I would be playing games like Battlefield 3, Crysis, Mass Effect, GTA. Mostly modern shooters and action-adventures. I want this build to MAX any game. Battlefield -> Ultra Settings, Crysis -> Very High, etc.
My preferred site is newegg.
These are the parts I have chosen so far.
Case - Cooler Master HAF X
CPU - Intel Core i5-2500K
CPU Cooler - Cooler Master Hyper 212+
Motherboard - Asus P8Z68-V Pro Gen3
RAM - G. Skill Ripjaw 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600
Graphics Card - EVGA GeForce GTX 680
System Drive - Crucial M4 128GB
Storage Drive - Seagate Barracuda 1TB
Optical Drive - Asus 24x DVD Burner
Power Supply - Corsair AX750 750W 80+ Gold
Monitor - Asus VH238H 23" LCD 1080p
Total - $1847
I want to keep this build between $1500-2000, obviously cheaper being better.
For the CPU, I will probably get the i5-3570K Ivy Bridge and a new Z77 board to go with it, as I won't be building until after Ivy Bridge is supposed to be released. I was thinking this Asus board.
I also am probably going to be getting the EVGA Superclocked GTX 680, once it is available on newegg.
The only other thing I'm still unsure about is the CPU cooler. I don't know what to get out of these three: the Hyper 212+, X6 Elite, or TPC-812 (not yet released)
Any and ALL advice is greatly appreciated. I want this build to be able to max ANY game for quite some time before I need an upgrade. Any recommendations I will look at, as I am always tweaking this build. Thank you in advance!