Best Gaming/Casual PC under $700?

[syed2007]

Approximate Purchase Date: This Month (parts may be bought at two separate times)

Budget Range: $700 or less

Parts Not Required: Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, Hard Drive. Optical Drive, OS

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Amazon then Newegg.
Amazon is more liberal when it comes to returns.

Country: USA (Maryland)

Overclocking: Maybe (latter)

SLI or Crossfire: Either is fine. Will add an additional GPU latter.

Additional Comments:
- Building myself
- Most be quite so I can watch movies (does liquid cooling help)
-dual monitors
- HDMI port (2)
- Don't game a lot, but when I do I want it to be good.
- Computer Science Student so I may run heavy applications latter.

AMD or Intel: Whichever gives me the most performance and works nicely with everything.

Case size can be any, but a bigger case should run cooler and quieter right?
The case can't be nerd looking but I would prefer something that looks kinda modern or classy.

 

[o1die]

I would check newegg's daily shellshocker specials for a combo package. They had the Intel 3570 with decent board, case, power supply, hardrive (ssd is sometimes offered, highly recommended), etc, for around $500 last week. I would skip liquid cooling; the cheaper units aren't worth it. Get a good 120mm aftermarket cooler such as the coolermaster hyper 212 instead.

 

[syed2007]

Yeah but the combos have a lot that I don't need. Like HDD, SDD, Optical Drive, keyboards, etc.

Can you check this setup?

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/forum2.php?config=tomshardwareus.inc&cat=31&post=361181&page=1&p=1&sondage=0&owntopic=1&trash=0&trash_post=0&print=0&numreponse=0&quote_only=0&new=0&nojs=0