Any advice getting a new PC

[dicertification]

Personally I would stick with a 2600k if it's still in your budget. People seem to underestimate the value of hyper threading and the extra cache. Especially while encoding, and multitasking at the same time.

[Fuzzykins]

Follow Fuzzykins' built. Except, change the CPU to a i5 2500k, and also change the GPU from one 580, to two GTX 560Ti. Also, you can change the PSU to a Seasonic brand. Oh, and keep the 8GIG of ram but change them from 1333Mhz to 1600Mhz. Timinigs have very little impact ( and i mean very little) in the speed of DDR3 ram.

Lolwat?
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...ce-Spreadsheet
SLI 560 vs 580 is very minimal, ~10-15%, and leaves you VERY little room to upgrade. Xuvial covered why that PSU is awesome. Doesn't Sandy Bridge prefer 1333 mhz RAM, or was that 1600Mhz? *googles*

Standard Sandy Bridge processors may default to a 1333MHz memory

- http://techreport.com/articles.x/20377

I don't get why people are telling you to downgrade to an i5. The difference is minimal for gaming, but for modern applications such as video processing, audio processing, or Folding@Home, the i7 2600k takes the cake and there's no reason why you shouldn't take the i5 2500k over it.

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cheers for the replies all, ill have a closer look at em over the weekend and see how and where to spend my money.