Originally Posted by
kataoki
Hi i just bought a new setup myself and thought to give you some advice about it. Was a guildie of mine who suggested this setup and its pretty good for the money (about the same budget as you)
CPU I went for a
Intel Core i5 3570K 3.40GHz - Costed me a 239 Euro wich was in a local store in my town, pretty sure its cheaper via online orders. Great CPU standard boosts up to 3.8 ghz. Asfar i can read on forums its one of the best CPU's to overclock, with up to 4.8 GHZ Stable (with the right cooling). I have installed a Corsair H100 Liquid cooling to clock but my motherboard doesnt allow me to clock (derp, didnt read enough info on a mobo) So with a right motherboard you can do magic with this one.
RAM I went for Kingston DDr3 1600 2x 4 GB. Was 75 Euro for these, nice self cooling, and if you setup the RAM in the bios to finetune them. Later on i heard of a friend of mine telling to get 4x 2 GB rams cause they work even faster, but i didnt know then.
GFX NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti, TI Version is almost on par (benchmarks) with the more expensive cards (660 Ti was 339euro, the high end cards are above 600) Its a good card and im able to play farcry 3 on very high while i livesteam it in HD and watch on a second screen...
Biggest mistake was my motherboard, went for ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8H77-V LE, apparently you cant clock as easy on this, on all h77 series btw. Theres also a useless gpu on the motherboard wich is a waste, and standard it has only stereo jacks. Lesson learned, dont save money on the motherboard... Was 109 euro ><
What i defo happy about, SSD! This was new to me and amg, its fast. Usual when i wake up and turn on the PC when i walk downstairs, i heard windows and skype turn on. Now, when i get to my door i already hear windows and skype pop up xD I went for a samsung SSD 830 series 119 GB. Costed a 129 Euro.
I already had my case,psu, sata dvd rewriter and Sata HDD for storage, so didnt have to buy them (all together a 250 euro saved) SSD will be a future opgrade for me, hoping the prices will drop a bit.
Comes at a 891 for the hardware stuff, plus a 250 for the stuff i already had, it costed 1141 Euro, and if you like like i did, i bought that Corsair H100 cooling for the cpu.
Hope this is of any help in buying new hardware, i was happy to get some help on this, do as you please with it :P