New build $1600

[elbrandon29]

NZXT Phantom 820 CA-PH820-G1 Gunmetal Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Seagate SV35 Series ST1000VX000 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

ASUS VN247H-P Black 23.6" 1ms (GTG) HDMI Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor

EVGA 02G-P4-2678-KR GeForce GTX 670 FTW 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

SAMSUNG Black SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model SH-118AB

NZXT HALE82-N NP-1BN-0750A-US 750W ATX 12V 2.3 and EPS 12V 2.92 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active ...

CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B

ASUS P8B75-V LGA 1155 Intel B75 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit - OEM

CORSAIR Hydro series H50 High Performance CPU Cooler

Subtotal: $1,672

 

[realchaos]

Use of this build? In general, it seems you're not overclocking so you don't need liquid cooling. A stock is fine but if you find them unreliable then a hyper 212 evo is more than enough. Are you planning to to SLI the 670? If not, get a 500-600w psu.

 

[Italian bear]

New builds from scratch are always tough. You try fit in great performance and still not leave it too costly, sharp double edged sword. If I was allowed a quick personal opinion it would be to choose a corsair PSU and cheaper corsair case simply because they are truely great and trusted brand and outstanding quality. Also if you get the cheaper i5 3570k instead of the i7 3770 you might be able to spring from the gtx 670 to the 680 and lose mininal cpu performance. Also you have a quality cpu and quality gpu but cheap mobo. Not that it means it's bad in performance but it makes sense to let quality components sit on a quality mobo.

This is my first "real" post hope i gave some insight even marginally!! Good Luck tho!

 

[realchaos]

New builds from scratch are always tough. You try fit in great performance and still not leave it too costly, sharp double edged sword. If I was allowed a quick personal opinion it would be to choose a corsair PSU and cheaper corsair case simply because they are truely great and trusted brand and outstanding quality. Also if you get the cheaper i5 3570k instead of the i7 3770 you might be able to spring from the gtx 670 to the 680 and lose mininal cpu performance. Also you have a quality cpu and quality gpu but cheap mobo. Not that it means it's bad in performance but it makes sense to let quality components sit on a quality mobo.

This is my first "real" post hope i gave some insight even marginally!! Good Luck tho!

Seeing as it's your first "real" post, the beginning was nice. It's not really a cheap motherboard, it's more of a standard motherboard for no overclocking. No need to grab an expensive z77 motherboard if you're buying a locked cpu. The performance difference between the gtx670 and 680 is minimal for the price difference, stick with the 670. Rather than dropping down to a 3570k, an i5-3470 is a better choice since he's not overclocking. I do agree that he might be spending too much for a case, but if he really likes it then he can keep it.