Help with 1700$ budget please

[AngryGamer]

Hello everyone, I just created an account to ask for some feeback on a new rig.
I live in Canada so I'm going to purchase all the parts from http://ncix.com/index.php

My budget is 1,700$ without the monitor.

Until now I've already settled on a few parts:

CPU: Core I7 930 - 300$
Mobo: Asus P6X58D-E - 250$
GPU: EVGA GTX 480 - 500$
Memory: Corsair CMX6GX3M3A1600C9 - 150$
Price up to now: 1200$

I'd like to get some recommendations on:

-a good power source (no plans on using SLI)
-a good case (with good airflow and noise cancelling, especially from the video card fan) with a USB 3.0 port IF possible
-should I go for a Sata 3.0 hard disk ? Will it make a difference ?
-what do you guys think of the components above ? any alternatives for that mobo ?

I'll be using this rig for gaming and I plan on keeping it for at least 2 years with no additional upgrades (except maybe a hard-disk).

 

[Emulex]

what about ssd. that will be a dog without an ssd.

sata 3.0 yes with that 256/300/600gb ssd

 

[Chapbass]

How set are you with those parts? that 480 is eating a ton of that budget.

 

[Chapbass]

Also, going with an 800 series i7 will be faster than that 930 I believe. Is there a big reason why you chose those parts?

 

[AngryGamer]

The 870 is more expensive and the 1156 platform has no triple channel memory. 930 is a best buy atm for me.

As I said, I want to keep this rig for at least 2 years so a GTX 480 will still be relevant in the future. Anything cheaper today will mean bigger investments later.

 

[Sp12]

The 870 is more expensive and the 1156 platform has no triple channel memory. 930 is a best buy atm for me.

As I said, I want to keep this rig for at least 2 years so a GTX 480 will still be relevant in the future. Anything cheaper today will mean bigger investments later.

No, triple channel memory shouldn't matter to you unless you're running a datacenter/server that actually moves 30+GB in and out of memory a second.

The i7-870 is a fair bit more powerful than the 930:

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=41316

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=41447

Has 33% lower TDP compared to the 930 (better overclocking) and has a 3.6 turbo vs. 3.06. A P55 build also means you can drop to 4GB memory and a P55 motherboard (at least 100$ in savings).

Cheaper today with upgrades tomorrow gives you higher overall price/performance.

Also, if you're thinking about Sliing that 480 at some point in the future (more than 6 months out), it doesn't actually turn out to make sense. By the time you're looking to buy another for a performance boost people/retailers selling the card new want ~50-75% of release price, and there will be another single-GPU card out by the time with more performance than your dual cards for the same price, while also avoiding SLI BS like microstutter, driver issues, and game-dependant scaling.

 

[Rifter]

The 1156 i7 is not any more powerful than the 1366 i7

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/107?vs=46

OP i would stick with the 1366, you get the advantages of triple channel memory and 16x/16x PCIe for if you decide to go SLI, or 16/8/8 if you want to tri-fire tri-SLI.

For PSU a quality 750w or 850w would be great for that system, but if SLI is a option later and that 480 being a power hog i would go with a 1000w to be safe. Corsair/Seasonic/Antec/XFX all make quality PSU's you wont go wrong with any of them.

SATA III on a spindle disc is 100 FIX THE FUCKING PERCENT SIGN useless, they dont even come close to using up a SATA II channel. For SSD though SATA III is a good idea.

Do you plan to OC?

 

[fire400]

corsair 750w PSU

One GTX 460 is better unless you playin' on something larger than 1080p or do SLI 480.
I wouldn't opt for a the 480 card just because you don't want to replace it in two years. Take advantage of the FST forum.

Go with an SSD, don't matter the size. The performance don't matter if you install games on a regular 7200rpm hard drive just as long the OS is being crunched through the processor from the SSD drive.