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I am starting to build/order all my parts for my PC and i would like to know if anyone has any upgrades that could be used.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/d6di

 

OR direct parts here

 

Corsair Vengeance Blue 8 GB (2X4 GB) PC3-12800 1600mHz DDR3 240-Pin SDRAM Dual Channel Memory Kit CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B – Corsair $44.99

 

ASUS HD7870-DC2-2GD5 Radeon 2GB DDR5 VGA/DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort GPU Tweak Utilities PCI-Express 3.0 Graphics Card HD7870-DC2-2GD5 $329.99

 

Seagate Barracuda 7200 1 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST1000DM003 $80.68

 

Asus 24xDVD-RW Serial ATA Internal OEM Drive DRW-24B1ST (Black) $16.99

 

OCZ Technology OCZ Agility 4 64G SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-Inch SSD Up to 47K Random 4K Write IOPS with Max 300 MB/s Read (AGT4-25SAT3-64G) - $69.99

 

OCZ ZT Series 650W Fully-Modular 80PLUS Bronze High Performance Power Supply compatible with Intel Sandy Bridge Core i3 i5 i7 and AMD Phenom - $99.99

 

Corsair Hydro Series H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CWCH100) $102.74

 

Gigabyte Intel Z77 LGA 1155 AMD CrossFireX/NVIDIA SLI Dual LAN Dual UEFI BIOS ATX Motherboard GA-Z77X-UD5H $179.99

 

Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit (Full) System Builder DVD 1 Pack - Microsoft Software; DVD-ROM $89.13

 

Corsair Obsidian 650D Aluminum Mid Tower ATX Enthusiast Computer Case - Black CC650DW-1 - $158.51

 

Intel Core i5-3570K Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1155 - BX80637I53570K $214.99

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7870 is a bad choice, considering you can get the 6970 or the 6950 for 100$ less, and they're both superior cards.

The only features the new cards present are honestly technological updates,but none of which can't be found in most of the 6000 series cards.

So, if you haven't ordered the parts, it would save you money to get a 6950 or 6970.

A few of the 6950 and 6970s were actually on sale for 189.99 earlier this week.

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I disagree. The performance increase from the 6xxx cards to the 7xxx is significant. I would actually recommend an 850 watt psu minimum and a newer Nvidia card if you want performance that will last you a while. I honestly would consider an AMD cpu setup to offset cost if that is a concern. Ultimately up to you.

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7870 is gonna be 75W cooler than the 6970, that is a large heat offset alone thanks to the 6xxx "Northern Island" cards being manufactured at 40nm and the 7xxx "Southern Island" cards are 28nm. It's also gonna feature PCIe 3.0 vs 2.1, WDDM 1.2 support for Windows 8(Along with DirectX 11.1 vs 11), and is based on AMD's entirely new architecture. I personally would stick with the 7xxx series.

 

Your total TDP is roughly 342W. CPU 77W, Motherboard 50W, Videocard 175W, Hard drive 20W, SSD 5W, RAM 20W, Optical drive 15W. That's probably a bit high for the HDD/RAM/optical. If you choose to do SLI video with a second 7870 in the future you'd be loaded to 79% which is still within reason. Unless you're planning on doing some crazy video card setup in the future I would stick with the PSU you chose personally.

 

The SSD uses Indilinx's newest controller(who OCZ owns) and benchmarks extremely well but is very new and not well tested in the long term, I would go for it myself just keep the rest in mind. Going up to the larger 128G drive will add good amount of speed if you wanted to spend a bit more.

 

The board has UEFI which is excellent, death to the BIOS and 16 bit legacy.

 

Only thing I might change is ordering it with 16G of RAM instead of 8G, it just still uber cheap and can't hurt.

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Looks good to me. Honestly, anything above 1,200 dollars seems excessive to me. If 1,500 is your price range for a gaming PC then I'd say that you're set for a long time time as games get more intense in graphics and whatnot.

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Newegg has an MSI TwinFrozer GTX 670 for $409.00 after rebate...I just bought one, it out performs the ATI/AMD card, and it's a lot less cash right now, it was hard for me to make the switch, I tend to like ATI a bit better, but the performance/$$ is something I couldn't pass up.

 

Do you have a MicroCenter where you live? They sell that CPU for 189.00, and the motherboards are about the same price, but when you buy mobo and CPU...you get another $50 off....that's a pretty big saving over Newegg. The only catch is that it's in store pick up only. I just bought my mobo and CPU there, and bought the rest from Newegg.

 

I know that your video card is only $329...but if you can do the Micro Center deal, the savings would allow you to step up to the 670 without going over budget.

 

Looks like you will have a pretty kick arse machine!

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Looks good to me. Honestly, anything above 1,200 dollars seems excessive to me. If 1,500 is your price range for a gaming PC then I'd say that you're set for a long time time as games get more intense in graphics and whatnot.

I think I paid around $1,500 for my PC in 2009 and it can still run just about anything maxed out. So yeah, a $1,500 PC will last a while.

 

...I mean, besides that SSD I bought...

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Am running, an asus P7P55 Lx, an lga1156 i5-760(2.80g) quad core, 4 stk of g.skill 2G (8gigs)D.C. DDR3-1333 (10666)cl8-8-8-21, 1.5v, a W.d HHD cal Black series 500g, 32mem-buffer, coolermaster HAF 912 case w/ 4-120mm case fans, A sparkle 460 Gtx 786m, an Ultra x4 750w modular PS. Mobo 89.00, Cpu 198.00 on sale, Mem 4g kit-42.00 (x2) Video card about 190.00 w/rebate, case 69.00. Ps about 119.00 running at stock, played Doom3, bioshock 1, 2. far cry2, Crysis2, metro 2033 on a Win Xp 64bit O.S A DIY system 4th build my soon to be upgrades a 660 ti Gtx, going from 8g of mem to 12 Gigs, 2Stk (4) 2 stks(2) and maybe 850 w Ps, waiting bioshock INf- Aliens C.M's co-op so i can Rock,done all three stalkers

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