newbie needs help

[redbull2075]

Hi all

I built my last high end gaming rig 8 years ago so I am a little rusty but keen to start again, i am ditching my 27" imac

I am looking to run all games on the very best settings @ a resolution of 2560 x 1440

as well as import and a little editing of family home movies in AVCHD format

I am mainly interested in FPS, simulators and am looking to have a look at Skyrim etc

I am about to purchase the following kit and just wanted to know if there were any glaring errors in my choices.. I have stuck to the usual suspects as mentioned i am out of touch

shopping list after watching utube and reading various reviews =

Asus PB278Q 27 inch Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor (2560x1440, 5ms, VGA, DVI-D, DisplayPort, HDMI)

Logitech G500 Gaming Mouse

Microsoft Sidewinder X4 Keyboard

Slimline USB External DVDRW/DVD RW

Arctic Silver 5 3.5g Thermal Paste

Akasa AK-CC7117EP01 K32 High Performance Intel Cooler for LGA775, LGA1156 and LGA1155

WD Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gbps Power Saving Internal Hard Drive OEM

Corsair TX750V2 Enthusiast Series 750W ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Bronze PSU

Corsair 16 GB Vengeance 240-pin DIMM DDR3-RAM 1600 MHz PC Memory

TP-Link TL-WN951N 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Adapter

Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 Motherboard

Asus Nvidia GeForce 2GB GTX 680 DirectCU II OC Graphics Card

Cooler Master HAF X USB 3.0 XL ATX Case

Intel 3rd Generation Core i7-3770K CPU

Crucial CT256M4SSD2BAA 256GB M4 SATA III

windows 8 64 oem


any advise would be much appreciated !

Thanks in advance

 

[Incrauze]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus PB278Q 27" Professional LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £539.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £269.99
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £251.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD256BW) ** Cash Back Promo ** £209.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Corsair Carbide 500R Midi Tower Case - Black £99.95
1 x Corsair XMS3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX16GX3M2A1600C11) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £73.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
1 x Microsoft SideWinder X4 Gaming Keyboard - Retail (JQD-00006) £32.99
1 x Logitech G400 3600DPI Gaming Mouse (910-002279) £22.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN881ND) £16.99
Total : £1,997.44 (includes shipping : £22.20).

 

[Ripjaw]

Whats your budget? And is it just for gaming?

Edit: Also just a thought if you do have a fair chunk to spend round 1.5/2k then i'd hold off a few more months the next gen intel cpu is due soon as are the new nvidia and ati gpus.