£500 - £600 Custom pc help

pro xxx assassin

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I have managed to get £450 towards a new gaming pc ( im only 15) and will shortly be able to get to a total of around £550 - £600, the main games i play are wow and starcraft but with my new pc will be hoping to play all sorts of games on the high quality as at the moment i only have an i3 with no graphics card...

From various research i have come up with the following possible specs for my computer , if you know and better components or ones that are cheaper and are as good please comment as i need all the help i can get

I5 2500k or 2500 ( is it worth overclocking, and if so have i got good enough cooling?)
Asus p8p67 motherboard

or

would i be better going amd?

8gb corsair vengeance ram ( found good deal )

(forgot other stuff :p got spreadsheet but cant access it at the moment :)
 

ps3hacker12

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Asus ATI Radeon 6950 HD 810MHz 1GB PCI-E HDMI DirectCU II: (£174.99)
http://www.ebuyer.com/271723-his-hd-6770-1gb-gddr5-dual-dvi-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-graphics-card-h677f1gd

one of this 120mm case fan (you can have a max of three if you want for optimal cooling):
http://www.ebuyer.com/65697-120mm-blue-led-fan-4pin-molex-connection-120mmledblue

samsung F3 500GB HDD: (£30)
http://www.dabs.com/products/samsung-500gb-spinpoint-f3-7200rpm-16mb-sata-6605.html

4gb 1600Mhz ram (DDR3): (£25.99)
http://www.dabs.com/products/kingston-hyperx-blu-4gb--2-x-2gb--1600mhz-ddr3-non-ecc-cl9-dimm--kit--741W.html

DVD-RW drive: (£12)
http://www.dabs.com/products/best-value-liteon-24x-int--dvdrw-black-sata---s-w-6M84.html

i5-2500K (£163.31):
http://www.ebuyer.com/251596-intel-core-i5-2500k-3-3ghz-socket-1155-6mb-cache-retail-boxed-processor-bx80623i52500k

OCZ modstream 700W PSU PSU: (£59)
http://www.dabs.com/products/ocz-technology-psu--modxstream-pro--700w---uk-5D16.html?refs=50121

Gigabyte GA-P67-DS3 (Crossfire compatible mobo £79):
http://www.dabs.com/products/gigabyte-ga-p67-ds3-b3-lga1155-intel-p67-ddr3-atx-7JWD.html

XIGMATEK Asgard case: (£28)
http://www.dabs.com/products/xigmatek-asgard-chassis-77R3.html

comes to £581.97
but im sure you can find better deals if you shop around.

you could also go with a GTX570 but it is more expensive.
GTX570:
http://www.dabs.com/products/kfa2-geforce-gtx-570-732mhz-1280mb-pci-express-hdmi-798R.html?q=gtx%20570

[EDIT]:
just saw you said wow, you should go for an Nvidia graphics card if you plan on WoW, as for that i3 which i3 is it? some i3's such as the i3-2100 are great, and can beat quad core processors such as the phenom 955.
 

yummerzzz

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Also, if you really want a boost in performance, TH recommends that you buy an i5-760 as the are only a tad worse than the SB i5's and you don't have to build a whole new system.