Hey everyone. Been lurking since I joined a while ago. I should be moving house very soon and want to upgrade my PC shortly after I do as my old faithful is showing her age now (far past beginning to show it, she's got a Pentium II which I've managed to overclock and 4gb RAM with a ATi 4870 I remember upgrading shortly after they came out - think I had a...3850 in the stock build, haha 
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Anyhow, I have some funds aside, and (at the moment anyway) don't have a *huge* amount of my income tied up
This is what I've been looking at so far:
Antec 902 v3 Case
Intel i7 3770k Ivy Bridge 3.5ghz (Overclocked to 4.6ghz)
BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro Cooler
Gigabyte GA-Z77X UD3H (Z77 Chipset)
8gb Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
650W Corsair Enthusiast PSU
GeForce 660Ti 2gb
OCZ Vertex 120gb SSD
Things I'm still not quite sure about:
Amount of RAM - I'm really torn about whether to bother spending an extra £30 or so and getting 16gb. To be honest, I probably could, but I'm really not convinced that I would actually use it.
Motherboard - While I've always been interested in PCs and such and have an average knowledge of brands and the like, this will be the first PC I've owned where I've actually chosen the mobo. As a result, I have no clue what to look for in one or what makes one better than the next.
Anyhoo. If you guys have any advice for something I should either change, or check out, please feel free to chuck it in the hat. While I'll be using this primarily for gaming, I do do the occasional little (seriously, not very much at all) bit of picture/video editing. I may also think about installing some DAW software too (something like protools or the like) but to be honest the odds of that happening aren't very high at all.
Cheers guys!
-Pellit
)Anyhow, I have some funds aside, and (at the moment anyway) don't have a *huge* amount of my income tied up
This is what I've been looking at so far:
Antec 902 v3 Case
Intel i7 3770k Ivy Bridge 3.5ghz (Overclocked to 4.6ghz)
BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro Cooler
Gigabyte GA-Z77X UD3H (Z77 Chipset)
8gb Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
650W Corsair Enthusiast PSU
GeForce 660Ti 2gb
OCZ Vertex 120gb SSD
Things I'm still not quite sure about:
Amount of RAM - I'm really torn about whether to bother spending an extra £30 or so and getting 16gb. To be honest, I probably could, but I'm really not convinced that I would actually use it.
Motherboard - While I've always been interested in PCs and such and have an average knowledge of brands and the like, this will be the first PC I've owned where I've actually chosen the mobo. As a result, I have no clue what to look for in one or what makes one better than the next.
Anyhoo. If you guys have any advice for something I should either change, or check out, please feel free to chuck it in the hat. While I'll be using this primarily for gaming, I do do the occasional little (seriously, not very much at all) bit of picture/video editing. I may also think about installing some DAW software too (something like protools or the like) but to be honest the odds of that happening aren't very high at all.
Cheers guys!
-Pellit
