Second opinion on part choices

[snowraptor]

The budget is about $1500 and it's mostly going to be for video editing and gaming. There's not going to be any overclocking and as the links would indicate, this is coming from Newegg for Canada.

I think these parts should be good but I figured I should get a second opinion just in case. The current price is $1245

Case: Thermaltake Chaser MK-I (VN300M1W2N) Black SECC ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

GPU: EVGA 025-P3-1579-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) HD 2560MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I72600K

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL

HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

PSU: CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX650 650W ATX12V v2.31 / EPSV12 v2.92 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Active PFC High Performance Power Supply

CPU fan: Rosewill RCX-Z300 92mm Ball CPU Cooler

 

[manofchalk]

EVGA cards have a reference heatsink on them, which is louder and performs worse than a custom. The amount of VRAM doesn't matter until you run out of it, which on a single 1080p monitor you wont.
This card will be much cooler.
MSI GTX570. $260
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127682

Caviar Blacks are quite expensive, the equivalent Seagate Drive sells for less (or not, I blame Newegg Canada).
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840

A good aftermaket CPU heatsink to get is the 212 EVO. Best budget air-cooler around.
CM Hyper 212 EVO. $35.50
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099

 

[snowraptor]

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