New PC Build

[Sinfonia]

I'll be building a new PC soon, but I was wondering what people's opinions were on my parts, as I haven't really followed lately with PC components. Are there any changes people would suggest, moreso in the SSD, MoBo, and PSU (Is 850 enough, if I plan to get another 580 at some point in the future to SLI?) areas?

My budget is going to be around $1600-1800.

Here's what I have so far:

Case:
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower Compucase Case with USB 3.0 ($155)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119160

MoBo:
ASRock P67 EXTREME4 (B3) ($160)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...D=xorf50rmck5g

CPU:
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W ($225)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115072

CPU Heatsink:
ZALMAN CNPS9900MAX-B 135mm Long life bearing CPU Cooler Blue LED ($70)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16835118074t

CPU Thermal Compound:
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM ($12)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835100007

RAM:
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) ($100)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231445

Video Card:
ASUS ENGTX580 DCII/2DIS/1536MD5 GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB ($490)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121429

SSD:
OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) ($125)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=17ixt10ue8n9l

HDD:
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb ($65)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-185-_-Product

OS:
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit English 1-Pack ($100)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832116986

PSU:
CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-850HX 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply ($165)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139011

DVD Drive:
ASUS Black 24X DVD+R ($20)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...D=6ptlu22d4mau

Total right now is 1687 before taxes+shipping...

[D Brisc]

Looks good imo. If the GPU comes in a 580 ti version get that. But, I have no clue if they come in that version I'm to poor to even look. They run a little better, just my two cents on the GPU. And the SSD the Vertex 3 is a little better if I remember correctly. If I'm wrong someone feel free to point it out.

[Sinfonia]

Ah thanks, I'll take a look now.

Also, is there a better suited CPU Fan/Heatsink? I didn't really look that hard at heatsinks and took the first highly rated 1155 compatible one on newegg.

[kailtas]

D Brisc : Vertex 3 does not exist in 60GB version. Only 120/240/480GB. But yes, it is better.

Heatsink:
Option 1 : Noctua NH-D14 - Considered the best CPU air cooler.
Option 2 : Cooler master hyper 212 - A very good budget air cooler.

Option 3 : Wait for the Corsair H100 closed CPU watercooler with a 240x120 MM radiator. It will fit perfect on the top of your Cooler master HAF 932. It comes with 2x120MM fans.

To do this you will need to move the 230MM fan already installed. But fear not, there is room for a 230MM fan on the side panel of your Case. So you will not have to get rid of it.

The H100 will be fairly expensive tho. Dont be suprised if its 50% more expensive than the Noctua NH-D14 and the H70.

[Sinfonia]

After reading up on the Noctua cooler, I'll be going with that.

I think I'll stick with my 60GB Vertex2 SSD, as I'm only really using it for the OS/WoW for now.

---------- Post added 2011-06-06 at 11:54 AM ----------

Right now, my rig is looking like...

Case:
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower Compucase Case with USB 3.0 ($155)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119160

MoBo:
ASRock P67 EXTREME4 (B3) ($160)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...D=xorf50rmck5g

CPU:
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W ($225)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115072

CPU Heatsink:
Noctua NH-D14 120mm & 140mm SSO CPU Cooler ($90)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835608018

CPU Thermal Compound:
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM ($12)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835100007

RAM:
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) ($100)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231445

Video Card:
ASUS ENGTX580 DCII/2DIS/1536MD5 GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB ($490)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121429

SSD:
OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) ($125) ($95 with Combo deal with OS)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=17ixt10ue8n9l

HDD:
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb ($65)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-185-_-Product

OS:
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit English 1-Pack ($100) ($70 with combo deal with SSD)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832116986

PSU:
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series RSA00-80GAD3-US 1000W ATX 12V v2.3 / EPS 12V v2.92 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply ($199) (Will be $169 with combo deal with the case)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817171056

DVD Drive:
ASUS Black 24X DVD+R ($20)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...D=6ptlu22d4mau

Total right now is 1732 before taxes+shipping...

[llDemonll]

60GB is a very small drive for WoW + OS and leaves almost 0 headroom for patches/etc

[Drunkenvalley]

60GB is a very small drive for WoW + OS and leaves almost 0 headroom for patches/etc

Are we playing the same game? o.O There should be near 20gigs of space left. :'3

[Cantii]

Stay away from Arctic Silver, pleeaaaase. It's a sub-par TIM. Go with Arctic Cooling MX-2 or OCZ Freeze (this is actually sold at Amazon and not Newegg... I need to pick up another pack of it, it's such a good TIM)

[Kouki]

Id Switch Up The Case to the Coolermaster HaF-X. "Normal/nvidia edition"

Id Switch to a coolermaster Hyper 212plus or a V8. cooler.

The hard drive is limited in size what about other games?, why not take advantage of smart technology on that mobo?
Get a 120 gig intel solid state drive, and a 1tb western digital drive with that mobo you can combine them and the solid state will act as cache memory.

That or you can get a momentusXT its a hybrid drive 500gigs.

[Skelly]

Are we playing the same game? o.O There should be near 20gigs of space left. :'3

Well 60GB really = about 56 gig after formatting.
Wow is 25 GB, Windows 7 is about 16 gigs.
That leaves with the the BARE MINIMUM 15 gigs WoW needs to patch.
I really suggest getting at least 80GB

[Asmekiel]

Stay away from Arctic Silver, pleeaaaase. It's a sub-par TIM. Go with Arctic Cooling MX-2 or OCZ Freeze (this is actually sold at Amazon and not Newegg... I need to pick up another pack of it, it's such a good TIM)

Why stick with MX-2, when MX-4 is here already.

[Drunkenvalley]

Well 60GB really = about 56 gig after formatting.
Wow is 25 GB, Windows 7 is about 16 gigs.
That leaves with the the BARE MINIMUM 15 gigs WoW needs to patch.
I really suggest getting at least 80GB

Oops, 15gb yeah. That's what I'd initially written too. However, you're padding on WoW; it's only 23.6gb here.
The remaining 15gb should handle patches fine for a long time ahead.

Sure, a new SSD would still be lovely, but I think it's a bit of crying "Wolf, wolf!" three days ahead. >>;

[Skelly]

Oops, 15gb yeah. That's what I'd initially written too. However, you're padding on WoW; it's only 23.6gb here.
The remaining 15gb should handle patches fine for a long time ahead.

Sure, a new SSD would still be lovely, but I think it's a bit of crying "Wolf, wolf!" three days ahead. >>;

My WoW folder is actually 25.0 I swear! Must be because I have 83957 addons

[D Brisc]

D Brisc : Vertex 3 does not exist in 60GB version. Only 120/240/480GB. But yes, it is better.

Heatsink:
Option 1 : Noctua NH-D14 - Considered the best CPU air cooler.
Option 2 : Cooler master hyper 212 - A very good budget air cooler.

Option 3 : Wait for the Corsair H100 closed CPU watercooler with a 240x120 MM radiator. It will fit perfect on the top of your Cooler master HAF 932. It comes with 2x120MM fans.

To do this you will need to move the 230MM fan already installed. But fear not, there is room for a 230MM fan on the side panel of your Case. So you will not have to get rid of it.

The H100 will be fairly expensive tho. Dont be suprised if its 50% more expensive than the Noctua NH-D14 and the H70.

Ah, wasn't paying that close of attention just saw it was the Vertex 2 haha.

[Cantii]

Why stick with MX-2, when MX-4 is here already.

Honestly, MX-4 isn't better than MX-2, it's pretty much the same. MX-2 is usually less expensive, so go for that IMO. But really, if you can find OCZ Freeze, that trumps all. OCZ Freeze dropped my temps by a solid 6C over AS5 and 3C over MX-2.

[Xuvial]

I don't know why Corsair's expecting for H100 to be a hit since the NEED for watercooling has greatly died off with SB chips. I suppose they're aiming at those who are running older-generation CPU's where heat was truly the limit on overclocking...or SB owners who despise seeing their temps cross 50/60c...but other than that, H100 sales will be meh.
H50/H70 sold tons back when people genuinely needed them to OC their first-gen i5/i7's.

[DeltrusDisc]

Hmm, I'd say drop to a GTX 570, as the 580 doesn't have a huge performance boost. Use the cash you save on the difference to up yourself to an OCZ Vertex 3 SATA III 120GB SSD!

You will not be disappointed.

(Waiting for flame from Xuvial.... lol)

[Chickensoup23]

I don't know why Corsair's expecting for H100 to be a hit since the NEED for watercooling has greatly died off with SB chips. I suppose they're aiming at those who are running older-generation CPU's where heat was truly the limit on overclocking...or SB owners who despise seeing their temps cross 50/60c...but other than that, H100 sales will be meh.
H50/H70 sold tons back when people genuinely needed them to OC their first-gen i5/i7's.

Still have my i5 760 with an H50 Did the job, and will keep doing it. I overclocked a whole 1.3 GHz more on AIR on my 2500k than my 760.

760 = 3.2 GHz
2500k = 4.5 GHz, and it was easy.

Pretty sure I could push it to 4.8-5GHz on AIR if I tried real hard. This is using a Silver Arrow cooler.

[Xuvial]

Hmm, I'd say drop to a GTX 570, as the 580 doesn't have a huge performance boost. Use the cash you save on the difference to up yourself to an OCZ Vertex 3 SATA III 120GB SSD!

You will not be disappointed.

(Waiting for flame from Xuvial.... lol)

Hey I don't flame :S

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforc...0-ti-review/18

580 is nVidia's flagship card and they weren't going to make it so easy just to flip over to a 570 for "similar" performance, the jump from 570 to 580 is quite noticeable. A 560 can be OC'd to reach a 570, a 570 can't be OC'd so easily to reach a 580. Since OP is getting a DCII model it would be silly not to OC...a 580 races even further ahead due to better OC headroom. I read somewhere that apparently 580's arrive slightly downclocked at only 782mhz stock, pushing it to 850mhz is a joke.

[Sinfonia]

Yeah I was perusing ways to save money (as I'm probably ~$50-70 over budget atm, which is fine, but I don't want it any more than this)... but I can't bring myself to drop any of the parts I have, lol. Definitely keeping the 580/i5 and would like an SSD, but not sure which SSD would best fit my needs. I upped my budget a bit and have the Vertex3 120GB in my shopping cart now. Right now... my PC is looking to be around $1900 with taxes+shipping. Are there any changes you would make to drop my price that would be viable?

(img doesn't include OS/thermal paste, which is still included in the total above)