Pulling The Trigger Soon - Final Thoughts?

[Airek]

Approximate Purchase Date: Next week or two. (seeing if Black Friday shows anything interesting)

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Internet, Movies

Parts Not Required: Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: NewEgg

Country: USA

Parts Preferences: Intel i5 2500k

Overclocking: Never have, but will be learning.

SLI or Crossfire: In the future.

Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080

First section of parts list will be what I have already ordered/own and am using/reusing:

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive

OCZ GameXStream 600W ATX12V Power Supply

Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor

ASUS VH236H Black 23" 2ms Full HD Widescreen LCD Monitor w/ Speakers

This is what I will be ordering within the next week or two:

ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6950 Dirt3 Edition 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory

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After way-too-much research, this is what I have come up with. The power supply being used is only temporary, if it will work for me at all. I have absolutely no intention on using it for more than a month. Sooner if I can manage money-wise.

I have an external Sony USB DVD burner/reader that will act as my disk drive.

I also plan on upgrading the hard drive at some point, possibly SSD, but can't quite yet.

I feel like I'm leaving something out, which is possible with all the link insertions I put in. If anything looks amiss, feel free to let me know! My pride is dropped and I'm ready to know if this is a good build or not so I can be done with research and be on my way to a decent little computer.

 

[CDC Mail Guy]

hard drive is already deactivated Go for a WD 320 Blue. "Inexpensive" @ $102.99
(limited to 320GB because????)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136074

PS: SSD is REALLY worth it

 

[DaTT]

Is the power supply not sufficient? If not, why?

 

[Airek]

Yes, the hard drive is deactivated, but it's the one I currently own. I'm simply reusing it until I can upgrade to SSD, etc.

I think the PSU will be fine for now... next year I plan running Crossfire, which is the reason I want to upgrade the PSU in the near future.

 

[fffblackmage]

Just keep using your current PSU until you actually want to run CFX.

 

[Ken g6]

I like your three choices, mostly.

I feel like I'm leaving something out

If you're overclocking, then you should get an aftermarket CPU cooler. Hyper 212 Evo, or the slightly cheaper Plus, probably. There are bigger coolers, should you want to go all-out.

The one problem with your build is that the little fins on the RAM might run into some coolers. Probably not, but here's some for $40 without them.

Edit: Sold out? These sticks of RAM are pretty reliably $45.

 

[mfenn]

Your choices look fine, though I would get this Corsair DDR3 1333 kit which saves you $5 and guarantees that you will never have to worry about clearance issues. You will not notice the 1% difference between DDR3 13333 and DDR3 1600.