My Current Indefinitely Planned Build

[GAMESaROCKN]

I do not plan to build my own personal desktop PC for gaming and general use any time in the next few years due to student loans. Though as this is a friendly and relatively new forum, I just thought I would share my currently planned build to do my part to help build the community and received some feedback from those who wish to comment and give their opinions and advice.

 

COMPONENT

   

PRICE

 

E-RETAILER

                               

Processor

Intel Core i7 3770K

329.99

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=70540

   

Heat Sink

Swiftech H220

132.99

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=79583

   

Video Card

EVGA GeForce GTX 680 SC Signature 2

519.99

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=73119

   

Sound Card

Asus Xonar DGX

48.99

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=73088

   

Memory

 

Crucial Ballistix Tactical Low Profile DDR3 8GB Dual Channel Kit

70.99

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148656

Motherboard

MSI Z77 Mpower

219.99

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=76119

   

Hard Disk Drive

Seagate Barracuda 1TB

79.98

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=65701

   

Solid State Drive

Intel 520 Series 60GB

94.14

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=67709

   

Optical Drive

Asus SBC-06D2X-U

89.98

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=68739

   

Power Supply

OCZ ZT 750W

119.99

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341052

Fans

 

Silverstone AP123

102.45

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=79523

   

Case

 

Fractal Deisgn Arc Midi R2

109.99

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=78227

   

OS

 

Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 64bit

150.58

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=77185

   

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office 365

104.98

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=79340

                           

Keyboard

Filco Majestouch 2 Yellowtop Cherry MX Blue Tenkeyless

149.99

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=74409

   

Mouse

 

SteelSereis Kinzu V2 Yellow

38.99

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826249071CVF

Mouse Pad

SteelSeries 4HD

19.99

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=42502

   

Headset

 

SteelSeries Siberia V2 Yellow Navi Natus Vincere

83.99

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826249088CVF

Audio Mixer

SteelSeries Cross Platform Audio Mixer

39.99

 

http://shop.steelseries.com/us/audio/steelseries-cross-platform-audio-mixer.html

Monitor

 

Asus PB238Q

257.47

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=75619

   

Webcam

 

OPTI-UP Gaming GS1100B

109.99

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=77902

   

UPS

 

Logitech C920

114.99

 

http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=16875

                         

TOTAL

     

2990.43

             

 

Thank you for your time reading my first forum topic and any comments, opinions or advice that you may give.

            -GAMESaROCKN

[GAMESaROCKN]

Apologies for the sloppy components list. The table from Excel to Word to the forum did not go well. I will find somewhere in this forum topic to attach a copy of an .rtf file from Microsoft Word of the forum topic for those who wish for it to be easier to read.

 

It has been fun to post this forum topic!

[vkadurin]

Personally i will switch the GTX 680 with a single Radeon HD 7970. :)

[Guest]

Ok, I think it all looks pretty good however this close to a new chipset release its worth holding off to see if the newer chipset is any better, also a 60GB SSD really is not enough, even for a boot drive and a boot drive alone its a bit small, 128GB or even 90GB does nicely

 

Also if you buy Crucial RAM buy the Tracer stuff, the LEDs are awesome and can be turned off if you dislike them.

[GAMESaROCKN]

Here is the .rtf file.

PC Build.rtf

PC Build.rtf

[GAMESaROCKN]

Ok, I think it all looks pretty good however this close to a new chipset release its worth holding off to see if the newer chipset is any better, also a 60GB SSD really is not enough, even for a boot drive and a boot drive alone its a bit small, 128GB or even 90GB does nicely

 

Also if you buy Crucial RAM buy the Tracer stuff, the LEDs are awesome and can be turned off if you dislike them.

I plan to use Intel SRT and I believe that a 60GB SSD is the largest possible capacity, so a larger one is not an option if I decide with SRT.

 

The Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer's LEDs really are awesome, but I prefer the yellow stickers on the memory dims to match the colour scheme.

[GAMESaROCKN]

Personally i will switch the GTX 680 with a single Radeon HD 7970. :)

I prefer the look of the EVGA card. Otherwise I might go with a single Radeon HD 7970.

[Guest]

I plan to use Intel SRT and I believe that a 60GB SSD is the largest possible capacity, so a larger one is not an option if I decide with SRT.

 

The Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer's LEDs really are awesome, but I prefer the yellow stickers on the memory dims to match the colour scheme.

I'm pretty sure you can get yellow LEDs in some models but yeah I see your point, the RAM itself will stick out a bit, if you want yellow RAM have you seen the Mushkin Radioactive? aint much more yellow than that.

 

Also if you look at Zotac Nvidia Cards some of them have yellow accents as thats Zotacs colour scheme, will match build very well.

 

http://www.zotac.com/products/graphics-cards/geforce-600-series/gtx-680/product/gtx-680/detail/geforce-gtx-680-4gb.html