Budget Sandybridge spec check

[FishPolice]

Decided to be nice to my son and buy him a new rig. He's always had to make do with my old pcs in the past and he's so been looking forward to Skyrim.

He will be gaming at 1680 x 1050 and already has the rest of the rig (keyboard, mouse, screen, sata DVD drive etc).
I plan to give it a moderate overclock to around 4 - 4.5ghz


Already got these 2 bits as well from my last build:

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5830 (not the most capable card in the world but will tide him over till xmas -hopefully)


Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail (£139.99) £167.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-360-IN

MSI P67A-G45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** (£74.98) £89.98
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-169-MS

Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) (£19.99) £23.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-GD

OCZ ZS Series 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (£45.82) £54.98
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-056-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1098

Cooler Master HAF 922 Case - Black (£71.66) £85.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-176-CM

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) (£24.99) £29.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-252-SE&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1664


Budget is pretty limited and I was originally gonna get a much cheaper case like the Zalman Z9 but then I started looking at the Cooler Master HAF 912, Corsair Carbide 400R, Cooler Master CM-690, and kinda got carried away...still can't make up my mind on the case tbh...

I've got a Cooler Master 212 Plus in my system but I hate how fiddly it is to fit so I thought I'd give the Gelid Tranquillo a go this time.

Is there anything amongst this lot that you'd change?

For example, I keep seeing spec posts mentioning the Z68 boards. Is it worth a move away from P67 at this sort of budget?

Finally, is that PSU good enough? He's never gonna go crossfire or SLi (not unless he gets a paper round).

Thanks for looking. Feedback much appreciated as always

 

[stulid]

Cheaper/newer chipset - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-364-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

http://www.kitguru.net/components/m...-z68ap-d3-z68-review-bargain-buy-of-the-year/

Finally, is that PSU good enough? He's never gonna go crossfire or SLi (not unless he gets a paper round).

Yes and it can cope with bigger graphic cards too.

 

[FishPolice]

Cheaper/newer chipset - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-364-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

http://www.kitguru.net/components/m...-z68ap-d3-z68-review-bargain-buy-of-the-year/

Interesting....looks like Fishpolice jnr might be going 2nd hand again....