Another rate my build :)

[DrewSG3]

ASUS VS Series VS247H-P Black 23.6" 2ms LED Backlight Widescreen LCD Monitor

EVGA 01G-P3-1460-KR GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W

ASRock Z68 PRO3 GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Mobo

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9Q-16GBRL

SeaSonic M12II 620 Bronze 620W ATX12V V2.3 / EPS 12V V2.91 SLI Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Rosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case, comes with Three Fans-1x Front Blue LED 120mm Fan, 1x Top 140mm Fan, 1x Rear 120mm Fan, option Fans-2x Side 120mm Fan

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Gaming build, nothing to hardcore.. though I'm wonder if I'll need a stronger to keep the gaming up at 1080p?

 

[paperwastage]

SSD?

3rd party HSF for overclocking?

 

[fffblackmage]

Getting more than 8GB of ram doesn't do much, though ram is fairly cheap anyways.

Waste of ~$100 or so on the i7 when you could have gotten an i5-2500k instead.

It's not crucial for a gaming rig, but an SSD would have been nice too.

 

[Kinesis]

Recommend dropping the i7 back to an i5 and using the difference in cash to beef up the video card to 2 GB level. The VRAM will help with the eye candy in games and speaking of that I would recommend the AMD 6950 2 GB giving you better price, more VRAM and equal or better gaming performance.

 

[DrewSG3]

Thanks for the input guys, no aftermarket cooler for now.. don't plan on overclocking right away.

As for the i5 vs i7, is there a big difference in encoding? I forgot to include that in the OP.. I do a lot of blu-ray encoding.

As for the video card, I'm gonna grab this one instead.. Only $50 more after rebate XFX Double D HD-695X-CDFC Radeon HD 6950 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity

 

[mfenn]

I agree with scaling back the i7 to the i5 and reducing the RAM to 8GB in order to fit a better GPU into the build. The 6950 2GB is a good choice.

As for the i5 vs i7, is there a big difference in encoding? I forgot to include that in the OP.. I do a lot of blu-ray encoding.

If you're ripping them from the disk, that will be the limiting factor, not how fast you can re-encode them.