My First Personal Rig :D

[Kiryui]

Hey guys I'm relatively new around the forum and have been avidly trying to process ( :D) all that i can and learning all that's relative to pc's in general. So i have this build I've come up with and hope to finish in the coming weeks. Hope you guys can give me some constructive criticism about this project. Would mean a lot to me if you did :D.

1.Budget and Location
Since I'm from Australia the prices of some of these components may differ greatly, from a 10% to 20% increase compared to US parts.
My budget is a minimum of $2300 AUD to a maximum of $2600

2.Aim
This rig will be mainly be used for personal use, rather than a multi-user pc.
This may include media consumption eg. Youtube, movies, music.
Gaming with current AAA titles at reasonably high settings, or running multiple gaming clients eg. MMORPG's
High usage of browsing the internet eg. 40+tabs in Chrome :D.

3.Monitors
I plan on running either a dual monitor set up or a triple monitor set up with all of them at 1080p for multi tasking and gaming.
Don't really know if a 7950 would be enough to power high settings in Eyefinity smoothly. IPS is a must.

4.Reason for Upgrading
Been sharing a pc with the family for the longest time and thought that a personal rig was in order. ^-^

Notes
The case has to be white :D
The rig will be placed in a bedroom upstairs so silence is a big deal.
WIll overclock the cpu and gpu.
Pc that i was using i5 650, 4gb ram, gt 210, windows 7.

Parts/Components picked so far or can't decide upon:
OS-Windows 8 $149

Case- Antec P280 White $160 or the
Bitfenix Shinobi White $80 (note: don't know if getting either of theses two windowed will impact silence a great deal or not )

PSU- Corsair CX-750 Modular 80+ Bronze $119

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme6 Motherboard $155

Cpu: Intel Core i5 3570k $259

RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 1866(2x8gb) DDR3 $189 changed to
Corsair Vengenace Pro 1600(2x8gb) DDR3 $179 (thanks to greenroost1445)

GPU: MSI Radeon HD 7950 3GB Twin Frozr III Boost edition $339

Cooler: Xigmatek Dark Knight Night Hawk Frost Bourne Edition $55

HDD/SSD: Western Digital WD Blue WD10JPVT 1TB 2.5inch drive $89
Samsung 840 Pro series 128Gb SSD $149
Peripherals:
Corsair Vengeance M65 Artic White $69
Swan M10 2.1 System White $149
2x/3x Acer H236HLBID IPS monitors $199 each
CoolerMaster QuickFire TK Cherry Brown Mech Keyboard White LED $109

Total: $2580 with the higher cost parts listed included eg. 3monitors instead of 2/1
Thanks again :)

 

Edit* Changed the 1866mhz to 1600mhz

         Changed the case to the Bitfenix Shinobi White

New total is $2500 

[greenroost1445]

go down to 1600mhz it might save you some money and it's really not much of a difference unless your running a apu

[Austin Powers]

go down to 1600mhz it might save you some money and it's really not much of a difference unless your running a apu

 

Maybe OP intend to use RAMDisk

[Anult]

If you're concerned about silence buy a Fractal Define R4 Windowed as your case.

 

That way you have a window without the concern about high noise from the computer.

[Mario]

Get a cheaper PSU, 750w are overkill, though if you are thinking about running Crossfire later, then keep the psu.

[Kiryui]

Yeah, i really considered getting a lower wattage psu for cheaper too. Seemed to me that i would seek Crossfire as an alternative upgrade in the future, so a psu that could handle that upgrade would still be nice. Thanks for reminding me. :)

[Kiryui]

Get a cheaper PSU, 750w are overkill, though if you are thinking about running Crossfire later, then keep the psu.

Yeah, i really considered getting a lower wattage psu for cheaper too. Seemed to me that i would seek Crossfire as an alternative upgrade in the future, so a psu that could handle that upgrade would still be nice. Thanks for reminding me.  :)

[ShadowRaven]

I would go with these products

         Fracitel define r4 artic white windowed    Newegg  ( $119.99 )

         Asrock z77 extreme 6   Newegg  ( $154.99 )

         Intel I5 3570k cpu   Newegg  ( $219.99 )

         Vengeance pro 16gb ( 2x8 8gb )1600 ddr3  Newegg  ( $139.99 )

         Msi Amd Radeon twin frozr 3 gb gddr5 / oc   Newegg  ( $319.99 )

         Xiematek dark night 2 / sd1283 stealth  Newegg  ( $ 50.99 )

         Xiematek 120mm fan   Newegg  ( $13.99 )

          Samsung 840 pro series 128b ssd  Newegg  ( $149.99 )

           Wd Green 1,5  tb Hd  Newegg  ( $84.99 )

           Corsair 750m v2.3 modular psu  Newegg  ( $ 89.99 )

 

 

                                                                                        sub total = (  $ 1,344.90 ) Components