Suggestions before I buy?

[kiwimonster]

Mobo - ASUS P8Z68-V LGA 1155 Intel Z68
CPU - i5-2500K
RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB)
GPU - MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III PE/OC GeForce GTX 570
HDD - None until they drop in price have an external
SSD - Crucial M4 128GB
PSU - SeaSonic X750 Gold
Heatsink - Noctua NH-D14
Case - COOLER MASTER HAF 932

I think this should be about right I was looking to spend about $1500 comes in at around $1300. I may drop down in GPU since the new ones are right around the corner and a GTX 560 Ti should fit me well or would I notice a huge performance increase in the 570. I do realize since I am not running SLI I don't need the 750W PSU but it is currently on sale cheaper than the 650W so why not. I no longer play WoW, I do play SWTOR and want to run Skyrim and Battlefield 3 on Ultra if not high at 1980x1080. Also is there any difference in the G. Skill Sniper Series vs. the G. Skill Rip Jaw series? Any suggestions/recommendations on changing anything before I buy? Thanks.

[chaud]

Get a 6950 to hold you over instead. It won't do it on Ultra but on high sure. New cards in Feb. for midrange from AMD, unknown for Nvidia.

[Deleted]

Quality rules in regards of the PSU.

VGA: http://www.pc-erfahrung.de/grafikkar...rangliste.html perhaps it helps.

RAM doesn't matter at all as long as it's DDR3 1600.

[kiwimonster]

You are suggesting 6950 to hold me over to the next generation (6xx) Nvidia right? I mean I could look into forking out the extra dough and get the HD 7970 in a few days. I am selling off my PS3 and Xbox 360 so I could use the extra cash on that.

Thanks again for all the help.

[chaud]

Next Nvidia gen will supposedly be 7XX, they are skipping 6XX to catch up with AMD for marketing. If you aren't in a hurry, March is a good time to build. Ivy Bridge and new AMD GPUs over more of the range, maybe we see some Nvidia stuff by then. If you are in a hurry, the 7970 is nice but going to be expensive. Likely will start around $650 instead of the $550 it should be.

[vesseblah]

Would recommend waiting for two weeks to see if Radeon 7970 cards will actually materialize or be just a paper release. It will for sure affect the pricing of everything. Changing card from GTX570 to R6950 or GTX560ti will be a downgrade for all games, and about 20% fps loss in BF3.

[kiwimonster]

Thanks Chaud and Vessel. I am not in a huge hurry at all my current set up can run SWTOR fine on low settings at 1680x1050. March isn't far around the corner at all I think I am going to hold off until then. Sorry for the wasted time, but thank you again for the insight.