Building my first PC!

[GremlinP]

Hello everyone! I'm going to be building a new PC that will primarily be used for gaming. I'm looking to spend about £1,000 and I've got a keyboard/mouse but will need everything else. I don't know too much about which components are best but I've been reading posts for the last week and came up with this build:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £189.95
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
1 x Iiyama ProLite E2409HDS 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £139.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £88.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 650W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXV2UK) £74.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £72.00
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £56.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £52.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £44.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-7280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £1,023.97 (includes shipping : £20.10).



What do you guys think? Cheers =D

 

[IC3]

In my opinion its a good decent build, but on your place i would read about ivys bridge heat problems...and see tests against sandy i5 2500k.

 

[jamiehavok]

from what i read the heat problem is only a problem if you go above like 4.6 ghz ish but because of the architecture improvement that's like a 2500k near 5ghz anyway.

build looks good but if you want to add a second gfx card for crossfire later, a slightly more expensive motherboard would be better as that only supports 4x in the second pcie slot. so like this one would be better
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-390-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261

 

[Smoogels]

Ivy Bridge is OK. Heat problems occur when overclocked. The ivy bridge also clocks a little better compared to sandybridge so you would get a small increase in performance.