New PC for a friend

[zepthus]

Hi Guys,

one of my mate asked me to build a pc for him purely for gaming, what could i add or remove from this list? also what is a good router? i heard that billian 7800n is good for gaming or is there something better i can get?

Case: Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced (RC-932-KKN5)
Heatsink: Noctua D14 All-In-One
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K
Mobo: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO Motherboard
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM
SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 2.5" – 120GB – (VTX3-25SAT3-120G)
PSU: Corsair 750W HX-750
RAM: G.Skill 8GB (2x 4GB) RipJaws Dual Channel Memory – PC3-12800 (1600MHz) DDR3 – 240-pin DIMM – Non-ECC – Unbuffered – CL 9-9-9-24-2N (F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL)
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD Superclocked Video Card – GDDR5 1280MB 320Bit VRAM – 797 / 3900MHz Clock – PCIe 2.0 – 2x DVI-I, HDMI & Display Port – PhysX & SLI Ready – DirectX 11 & OpenGL 4.0 (012-P3-1573-KR)

will also be getting 2x case fan and memory cooler as well with this.

[Deleted]

I'd say... Get the HAF X instead of the 932, but I guess it's personal choice.

I'd also save some money by grabbing the Samsung 1TB F3 instead of WD.

[taekvideo]

Yea Samsung Spinpoint F3 is a better deal, it's just as fast.
Also there's really no reason to get a ram cooler... ram doesn't overheat unless you give it a stupidly high overclock, and overclocking ram doesn't really give much of a performance benefit.
Lastly there's no reason to spend so much on a PRO motherboard unless you plan on doing crossfire or sli.

Edit: lol all that is just money saving tips... guess you could use the saved money to upgrade to a 580 instead of a 570 xD

[zepthus]

is there a much difference between 570 and 580?
what mobo would u recommend?

---------- Post added 2011-08-04 at 01:16 PM ----------

also i had bad experience with samsung i had 2 of them before they both failed after few months.

[Sephiracle]

ASUS' missed the mark on the motherboards this time around. Some people still stick with them but quite a few have had issues that are sometimes not solved even with BIOS updates.

MSI, Gigabyte, ASrock are some other brands you may want to look at.

I would consider avoiding anything OCZ, especially SSD's. Really unstable and bad reviews from a lot of people.

[taekvideo]

is there a much difference between 570 and 580?
what mobo would u recommend?

---------- Post added 2011-08-04 at 01:16 PM ----------

also i had bad experience with samsung i had 2 of them before they both failed after few months.

Don't know if you had bad luck with their other products but the Spinpoint F3 has a low failure rate.
The 580 is better, though you'd be better off just saving the money imo. 570 is more than enough for all modern games.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128512 is a good mobo for cheaper
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128495 is even cheaper if you don't mind micro atx boards (I like them because they tend to be cheaper... never had a problem)... it doesn't have any legacy ports (IDE, Floppy, PCI, etc) so if you have any old crap you want to put in it you can't :P

[Skelly]

580 is roughly 15% better than a 570, but usually comes with a 50% larger price tag.

[zepthus]

i think i might just stick with 570 and get another 570 exactly the same model when bf3 comes out to make an sli.

i got most of these parts from the build of the month list i thought these were the best parts for the price :/