Building a moderate gaming rig. Need Help!!!

[Abhishek Bhattacharya]

I want to build a moderate (or maybe light... I shall leave that to your better judgement) gaming rig with these specs:

AMD 3.5Ghz AM3+ FX 6-Core Edition FX-6300 (FD6300WMHKBOX) Processor

ZOTAC NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 2 GB GDDR5 Graphics Card

MSI 970A-G43 Motherboard

Kingston HyperX DDR3 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) PC RAM (KHX1600C9D3B1K2/8GX)

Some optional stuff like:
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO Cooler

Now I'm stuck in two areas:
1. The wattage of the PSU required. I'll be buying the appropriate Corsair product.
2. WD Blue WD10EZEX 1 TB
vs. WD Caviar Green 2 TB (WD20EZRX)
vs. Seagate Barracuda 2 TB (ST2000DM001) ? I want an HDD which is fast (7200 rpm) but also has good write quality and drive life.

My budget is around Rs 37000 +- 3000 (i.e. ~ $650 +- 50, not taking into account inflation)
I would also appreciate any other advice you might want to give about the CPU, Mobo, RAM etc.

 

[Abhishek Bhattacharya]

Hi, the MSI 970A-G43 and all of MSI's 970 chipset based motherboards has issues with their VRM's, I would recommend getting the following motherboard instead:

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/

For a PSU i would recommend any of the following, it may sound to much, but it's worth getting a higher wattage PSU for better future expandability:

http://www.flipkart.com/seasonic-s12ii-620-watts-psu/p/itmd5xz46hjzzrax?pid=PSUD5XZ4GCGRASAY&ref=32ff97cc-0e86-4da9-ac24-9a5ae0354bc2
http://www.flipkart.com/corsair-cmpsu-600cxv2uk-600-watts-psu/p/itmd5xz4qhbpvvzk?pid=PSUD5XZ4EFXTQNG7&ref=1bf6330a-37da-49cd-88a9-7477a837df03

Go with the Seagate Barracuda 2 TB, I've only ever used Seagate and never had any issues, WD are good as well, but i don't have any personal experience with WD. The Kingston memory is fine.

thnx werner123. I have some queries regarding the mobo you recommended. It doesn't have a VGI port (I guess it wouldn't be required though, as the graphics card has one already.) And does it support NVIDIA SLI tech.? (should I require that in future). In fact my initial choice was this:

ASRock 970 Extreme3 Motherboard
http://www.flipkart.com/asrock-970-extreme3-motherboard/p/itmdd4d9tffp8kvd?pid=MBDDD4B3SJXHHMSR&otracker=from-search&srno=t_1&query=asrock+extreme3&ref=9be00926-8030-4504-825a-4c5e9dff0501
No VGA here too...but this one is like a dream come true. But I figured, I wouldn't require such a good mobo for my needs.