Building First PC

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So in August some time I will be buying / building a new PC:

So far I have come up with this build, is there anything i can upgrade without changing the price to much:

PCPartPicker part list:
Price breakdown by merchant:
Benchmarks:

CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($169.99
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master V6 GT 93.7 CFM CPU Cooler ($26.99
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($48.99)
Hard Drive: Crucial M4 64GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($79.99)
Hard Drive: Western Digital AV-25 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2GB Video Card ($249.99)
Case: Cooler Master HAF 922 ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99)
Power Supply: Cooler Master 600W ATX12V Power Supply ($74.98)
Optical Drive: Sony AD-7280S-0B DVD/CD Writer ($17.99)
Monitor: Asus VE228H 21.5" Monitor ($132.99)
Monitor: Asus VE228H 21.5" Monitor ($132.99)

Total: $1014.89

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Get rid of one of the monitors, get a 3570K instead of the 2500K and a 128GB M4 SSD instead of the 64GB SSD.

[hapylol]

Don't prepare for parts 3 months in advance. There could be new CPU's and GPU's out by then that could change the game.

SSD/HDD prices could also drop 50% by then so who knows.

Just save up that money and come back at the end of July

[zorbathegreek]

Get rid of one of the monitors, get a 3570K instead of the 2500K and a 128GB M4 SSD instead of the 64GB SSD.

<s>Bad advice IMO. I love dual monitors. Wouldn't give that up. Do you have any use for the 3570K? Are you doing heavy 3d rendering/ video editing? Because the 2500K is more than ample for gaming. And a 64GB SSD is just barely big enough for windows and program files. One game max. Just my 2copper.</s>

Wow my bad. Reading comp fail. But I still would recommend keeping dual monitors

I would go up from a 600W PSU btw. If you want to run SLI in the future, overclock, or add more drives, could be a little thin on 600.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Bad advice IMO

Why?

Do you have any use for the 3570K? Are you doing heavy 3d rendering/ video editing? Because the 2500K is more than ample for gaming.

The i5 3570K is the follow-up to the 2500K. It is slightly faster and supports PCI-E 3.0, making it more "future proof". The "rendering cpu" is the 3770K.

And a 64GB SSD is just barely big enough for windows and program files. One game max.

That's why I said get a 128GB one

Bad advice IMO. I love dual monitors. Wouldn't give that up.

The OP is missing a motherboard. That means that he will HAVE to get rid of one of the monitors to stay around 1000 dollars. I would recommend the AsRock Z77 Extreme4 or the Asus P8Z77-V LX, both are around 130 dollars.

[Kaibhan]

Why?

I couldn't live without dual monitors and if you used them you would know why. It's just one of those things that seems stupid if you don't and indispensable if you do.

[zorbathegreek]

I think the why was more directed at the things he pointed out I was madly wrong about/misread in his post.