Hi! I'm a new member, but been watching these forums for a couple weeks. Recently decided to quit smoking, and my incentive is saving money for a new computer (and living longer I guess), and have been rigorously researching price ranges, build guides, etc.
I'm a gamer, and have a budget around $1200 (when the chunk of my taxes come back), and have already invested in a core i5 2500k processor, a xonar DG sound card, an Asus P8Z68-VLX motherboard and a 27" monitor I just picked up on sale from dell; all of these parts together totaling $514.52.
My goal is to have a machine that can tackle skyrim, bf3 and the other eye-candy games out right now at max settings 60 fps constant.
The card I was looking at getting was the msi twin frozr III 560ti 448 cores, due to the overwhelmingly positive reviews about it's power and overclockability, not to mention it's near silent. The other 448 core 560ti's seemed ok, but this one really jumped out to me as the best in the series.
Thinking about a coolermaster case (not sure which one yet) that has good value but space for my parts (and a possible cpu cooler upgrade from stock in the future), and good airflow. The power supply I have picked out right now is the SeaSonic X series X650 Gold (picked this because I want to know I can trust the psu im using, willing to pay extra just for that).
With all that said, is there anything I'm overlooking? Anything I'm doing wrong or should do differently? Any advice or feedback would be a good way to ease my mind that my investment isn't going to waste!
Oh! and i haven't picked out ram yet either, was gonna go for the 8 gigs of ripjaw DDR3.
Just for a recap, these are the parts I have picked out but haven't purchased yet:
GPU---http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127615&Tpk=gtx%20560%20ti%20msi%20448 -$300
PSU---http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=17-151-088&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=2#scrollFullInfo -$140
CASE---??? (haven't decided yet, any suggestions?)
RAM---http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231426 -$42