is this a good gaming pc

[jamezzee]

Case
NZXT PHANTOM WHITE GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7-2700k Quad Core (3.50GHz, 8MB Cache) + HD Graphics

Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3: PCI-E 3.0 READY, SLI, CROSSFIREX

Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (4 x 4GB KIT)

Graphics Card
1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti 448 CORE (Ltd Edition Superfast Card)
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Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

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

Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£72)

Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO II A.L.C ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER (£59)

Fan Controller
NZXT Sentry 2 Fan Controller with upto 5 Fitted Case Fans

Sound Card
Asus Xonar DG 5.1 SoundCard & Headphone AMP *Award Winner* £20

Network Facilities
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)

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)

Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE

Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

Monitor
ASUS VG236HE 23

Eyefinity / GeForce 3D Vision
NVIDIA GEFORCE 3D VISION 2 WIRELESS STEREOSCOPIC KIT (£119)

Keyboard & Mouse
LOGITECH® K200 USB MEDIA KEYBOARD (£10)

Mouse
LOGITECH® G500 LASER GAMING MOUSE (£48)

 

[Rakk]

Well, if you are just gaming, then 16GB of RAM is complete overkill , 8GB will be perfectly fine (in fact for a lot of stuff 4 would be fine).

Were you planning on overclocking? If not doing so you could happily drop the cooling down as you wouldn't need the water-cooling

 

[AndyL]

Yes it is but if you are only going to be using it for gaming (i.e. not doing any HD video editing or 3D Modelling) then the i7-2700 CPU is massive overkill! you should at least drop to the i7-2600 or even the i5-2500 CPU and spend the extra money saved on upgrading another part of the system. Also unless you are planning to overclock (which I recommend you dont) then the liquid cooling is not necessary.

EDIT: beat to it by Rakk by a couple of seconds