Treating myself after promotion at work!

[hallsworthdannyt]

Below is the Spec I am thinking of going for, Primary use will be Gaming, with General Internet usage (HD Youtube content) and HD video editing of family videos here and their. My thinking is I could have gone all out on a CoreI7 and GTX680 but the cost increase tied to performance increase at 1080p didn't really sit well with me and I couldn't justify that extra cost. I will also be adding a 120GB SSD Boot drive from my previous system to the following spec.


Case
CORSAIR OBSIDIAN SERIES™ 650D GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-3570K (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z77-V: PCI-E 3.0 READY, WIFI, SLI, CROSSFIREX
Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (4 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 670 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 16MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W PRO SERIES™ HX750-80 PLUS® GOLD MODULAR (£119)
Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO II C240 DUAL RAD LIQUID CPU COOLER (Special Offer) (£69)
Monitor
IIYAMA G2773HS 27" PRO GAMER, 120Hz LED PANEL, 1MS RESPONSE (£289)

 

[keynes]

Hi,
Are you planning to overclock the cpu? I'd suggest a caviar black as a secondary drive and a cheaper monitor . If you are going to get up to 60fps on games the progamer wouldn't give you any significant advantage compare to the 60hz IIYAMA 2z monitor.

 

[hallsworthdannyt]

Hi

Yes id be looking to overcock to 4.2GHz plus some of the games id play on this rig would be capable of between 80-100fps and i thought it would be good to play at those frames instead of being locked to 60fps because of the 60Hz refresh rate.