Judge My PC

mato-andrew

I'm getting about $1500 back in my tax return this year, and I'd like to build a new gaming rig. I figured I'd post the possible specs/choices to people who know, and see if anyone would care to criticize or comment on things. I haven't put a gaming rig together in a couple of years, so I may have missed something.

A couple of points:
-I'd like to keep the actual tower to no more than $1200 in cost.
-I'm generally loyal to Intel & Nvidia
-I'm linking from Newegg because I didn't look up the components elsewhere (i.e. amazon) yet.

Here are the choices so far:
case: LIAN LI PC-9F (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112304
ps: 600W OCZ modxstream (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341017
mobo: ASUS P8Z68 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131792
cpu: Intel Core i7-2600k (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070
gpu: Asus GTX 560 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121446
ram: DDR3 SDRAM 1600 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220558
hdd: 500 gb caviar green (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136358
dvd: 12 BD-R (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136241

Skull2185

Guilty!

subedii

I think you'd have better critique of the specs in this thread:

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/156472/computer-build-thread-forget-sandy-bridge-e-i-want-some-raspberry-pi/p1

mere_immortal

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/156472/computer-build-thread-forget-sandy-bridge-e-i-want-some-raspberry-pi#Item_890

Probably get a lot more replies there, although looking initially I'd switch out the i7 for an i5 2500k with a decent cooler. Overclocks to more than you need.

Esh

There's a thread for this in the Technology Tavern sub-forum.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/156472/computer-build-thread-forget-sandy-bridge-e-i-want-some-raspberry-pi#Item_726