Gaming/video editing PC

[jaskee]

Hi everyone,
Any recommendations or changes for this PC spec below? my cash limit is £1250.00 with the intention of it lasting more than 2 years.

Case
COOLERMASTER CM STORM TROOPER - GAMING ENTHUSIAST CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics

Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z77-V: PCI-E 3.0 READY, WIFI, SLI, CROSSFIREX

Memory (RAM)
16GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (4 X 4GB)

Graphics Card
3GB AMD RADEON™ HD7950 - DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD10EARX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£69)

Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE INTEL CPU COOLER (£19)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Total Order Price £1,233.00

any help appreciated

 

[mantadog]

Swap the HDD for a Caviar Black, a faster drive which will aloow faster startups, faster loading of games and faster transfer of video. Worth the upgrade for sure.

8GB of RAM would probably see you through 2 years to be honest, for gaming your probably going to be looking at using a full 8GB in 2 years time. It is very easy to add more later if you wished to, 16GB is an awful lot at the moment even for video editing, especially combined with an i5 2500.

Other than that it will play every game maxed out, and will still be going strong in 2 years.

 

[jaskee]

thx for the info, i swapped out the hard drives but will probably keep the RAM since i have a lot of applications up at the same time (fraps, games, etc).