£750 upgrade ~ advice please

[m4RcU5]

Hi guys, looking to update my old 2.2 Athlon system on a £750 budget. basically binning everything inside the tower (CMStacker101) except the PSU (CM GX 750W '80 Plus' - which should be man enough IMO) and a couple of SATA drives.

New bits and bobs must be quick(ish), upto date, ultra reliable and able to run BF3 ~ hopefully should last me a couple of yrs or so.

Having had a poke around on the forums and reading a lot of recommendations/reviews, I've come up with a shopping basket full of stuff that just about keeps me on budget but if you experts would like to cast your beady eyes over said list and lmk if I should change anything before I hit the "buy" button, that'd be great

Cheers in advance



shopping basket:

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £173.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-360-IN


Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-GD


Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £169.98
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-054-AK


Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6950 TOXIC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex Games £233.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-274-SP


Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9) £65.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-292-CS


Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £74.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-008-CR&tool=3


Sub Total : £620.77
Shipping : £10.00
20.00% VAT : £126.15
Total : £756.92

 

[WrathOfAchilles]

Very similar to what i built and im very happy. I would suggest saving a little bit more though and getting a bigger SSD, 60gb just isnt big enough for top 5 games and page file.

Also, ask about the SSD make, OCZ are full of fail so i had to change to Intel. Not sure about Crucial?

 

[dfour]

With 8 gig you dont need to run a page file for normal and gaming use. Also dont store 5 top games on the ssd and you will be fine. Just the one or two your playing most.

Youu can get g-skill ripjawX 8 gig 1600mhz kits for less than the vengence £48 this week only. Good solid ram.

Otherwise a solid choise of kit there

 

[m4RcU5]

Cheers guys, I'm planning on using the ssd mainly as a system drive as I don't play that many games, would love to but just don't have the time tbh, 2-3 games installed would be my max at any given time (probs bf3 plus the two that come with the g/card) so I figured that 60GB would be plenty for my uses... only downside I can see with the Crucial is the (listed) slower write speed vs the competitors but as I understand it, there's a new firmware that moves the goalposts slightly?

Ripjaw vs Vengeance? .. look into that is next port-of-call ..

Cheers guys, keep 'em coming