Whats the best gaming build I can get for 2k

Xabran

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Hello all I want to build a new pc. I am hopeing some of you kind folks can give me some choices on whats the best I can get.
I would like to keep it under $2000, I can build a deent machine for this cant I?
I want to OC it.
I am going to use it for mostly gaming but also want to put a
Ceton InfiniTV 4 Quad-tuner Card for Watching Digital Cable TV on the PC, PCI-Express x1 Interface
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815706001
I can record 4 shows at the same time with this so I want at least 4TB of HD space so I can make this a media server to run my other tvs off it.
I use a Sony Bravia 40" LED 3D tv as my monitor.

I was thinking of Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor so if I am gaming and someone wants to stream a movie or tv show from my pc at same time I should not notice it much. It also supports HT (not sure if I will ever need this) and I wont be building another PC for a long long time so this one needs to last
.
I would like a 512g SSD drive for the OS and my games.

I was thinking of Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler for the OCing

Was thinking of GTX 670 for the GPU but not sure wich one is the best and I will probably add a second one to it later but not right now I think one will run most games for now and when it cant I'll add the second.
From what I have read the
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
is a decent board.
I want either WIN7 64 or Win8 64 not sure wich is best, as I want it to be a media center leaning towards 7 as 8 no lnger includes WMC from what I read.

So thats what I am looking for whats the best rig I can get for what I want?

Thank you all in advance for any and all help you provide me.


 

Wolfshadw

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Probably the best advice I could give would be to get a $1200 gaming system and an $800 HTPC system. I don't think you're going to be able to game on one monitor and watch TV on another monitor from the same systems. Visually, you probably can, but the audio is likely only to come from the active window, or if audio does come from both, there will be no way to separate the two. You cannot separate gaming audio to your PC speakers and TV audio to your HDTV speakers.

I actually came up with this build a while ago for an HTPC:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD A6-5400K 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($73.24 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard ($66.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot Gamer 2 Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($104.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Silverstone ML03B HTPC Case ($58.60 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Antec EarthWatts Green 380W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($49.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($15.98 @ Outlet PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ Outlet PC)
Other: Ceton InfiniTV 4 Quad TV Tuner ($199.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $719.74
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-13 23:48 EDT-0400)

Not sure if the prices have changed.

That leaves you with about $1280 for a gaming system and here's what I've come up with:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($219.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($134.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($42.03 @ NCIX US)
Storage: OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($89.98 @ Outlet PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 2GB Video Card ($225.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cooler Master HAF 922 ATX Mid Tower Case ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 600W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($15.98 @ Outlet PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ Outlet PC)
Monitor: Asus VS247H-P 23.6" Monitor ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1283.89
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-14 00:02 EDT-0400)

-Wolf sends