Serious Reconsideration

You can save £60 from dropping the Gen 3 and going with the £100 Asrock Pro3 instead, still a good Z68 board and is highly recommended from a lot of people here, that can go towards the screen still? (I've lost track of whether you need a screen still or not and wtf your budget is. :) )
 
I'm sitting right next to my modem and plugged in with Ethernet at the moment, this isn't only going to be for gaming, its going to be my everything xD
The reason there is a Wireless card in there is because I want to try squeeze as much as I can into my first build.
wired is far better than wireless. the only advantage of wireless is the lack of wires trailing around the house. if your right next to the PC then use a wire fer goodness sake because its a much faster and more reliable connection. you'd get more value for your money by burning a £10 note because at least that would warm the house up a bit.

here is a spec with everything you want, including a 22" monitor, for £1191

not sure what you'd planned on spending when you included the monitor and OS, but considering your original budget for the prebuilt tower alone was £1150, its not too bad:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £254.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi-Tower - Black £139.99
1 x BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £109.99
1 x OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
1 x LG CH10LS20 10x BluRay-ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £52.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT51264BA160A) £49.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
Total : £1,191.94 (includes shipping : £22.20).

if its too much i'll do my best to reduce it, but obviously the performance will take a hit
 
You can save £60 from dropping the Gen 3 and going with the £100 Asrock Pro3 instead, still a good Z68 board and is highly recommended from a lot of people here, that can go towards the screen still? (I've lost track of whether you need a screen still or not and wtf your budget is. :) )

that would also mean dropping the SLI/crossfire upgrade path, because crossfire/SLI at x4/x4 really hampers the cards. x8/x8 is fine and wont affect the cards at all though
 
wired is far better than wireless. the only advantage of wireless is the lack of wires trailing around the house. if your right next to the PC then use a wire fer goodness sake because its a much faster and more reliable connection. you'd get more value for your money by burning a £10 note because at least that would warm the house up a bit.

here is a spec with everything you want, including a 22" monitor, for £1191

not sure what you'd planned on spending when you included the monitor and OS, but considering your original budget for the prebuilt tower alone was £1150, its not too bad:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £254.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi-Tower - Black £139.99
1 x BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £109.99
1 x OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
1 x LG CH10LS20 10x BluRay-ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £52.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT51264BA160A) £49.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
Total : £1,191.94 (includes shipping : £22.20).

if its too much i'll do my best to reduce it, but obviously the performance will take a hit
I actually really like that :D, if I get enough I'm going with this :)
 
Very nice.

Similar in some way to this, if you want to get an idea. The 650D is a bigger case.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18305718

Not sure about the Ballistix, I would definitely trust the HyperX to deliver. You can also leave the CPU overclocking until later if you feel you are getting outside the budget.

Yeah, I don't really need it overclocked as it wouldn't really give me a performance boost?
I want OCUK to stock the lights one :D
 
Different names -waves hands in air-

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Nope the 650D is such a smart case, and I just love how it looks and how it works :), surely I should be able to play GTA IV? I bought it ages ago and was unable to run it decently
From experience. The 650 D is a big case, easy to work in, with good cable routing facilities, plenty of room for large GPUs, pretty well made and mainly tool less. On the negative side there are known (but fixable) issues with the fan controller and fan noise (check this out on this and other forums); if you want to use the front USB 3 sockets you have to connect these to the rear USB 3 sockets thereby using them up as there is nothing provided to connect to the MB header (Bitfenix make an internal adapter but I can't find anyone who has one); the case comes with no user guide at all so if this is your 1st build you may be in for an interesting time. But, having said that, I bought one and I'm about 95% happy with it. Good luck!
 
From experience. The 650 D is a big case, easy to work in, with good cable routing facilities, plenty of room for large GPUs, pretty well made and mainly tool less. On the negative side there are known (but fixable) issues with the fan controller and fan noise (check this out on this and other forums); if you want to use the front USB 3 sockets you have to connect these to the rear USB 3 sockets thereby using them up as there is nothing provided to connect to the MB header (Bitfenix make an internal adapter but I can't find anyone who has one); the case comes with no user guide at all so if this is your 1st build you may be in for an interesting time. But, having said that, I bought one and I'm about 95% happy with it. Good luck!

Check out this Newegg tutorial on Youtube. It fetures the 650D.
http://www.youtube.com/user/newegg#p/u/2/lPIXAtNGGCw

Seen it xD

I do believe the motherboard up there ^ comes with a header internally or something xD
 
The Newegg guy uses some like this http://www.bitfenix.com/global/en/products/accessories/internal-usb3-adapter/
The cable that comes with the case will not fit into the motherboard header but this adapter (if you can find one) solves this and keeps the back sockets free

I can't find one, did your usb cables come with your Motherboard or case?

I think I need to buy a pre braided 24Pin and 8Pin PSU extension because I want to keep wires to a minimum, soo expensive but can't really afford a tool to get out the pins of a normal extension. I think it will take me a good week to get this how I want it xD
 
Definitely build yourself. There's nothing to worry about. Even I a 12 year old did it.

We established I would like 24 hours ago :p

Should I buy an anti static wrist band or not?

I have my wooden desk that I can clear most things off.

Also should I do a test book outside of the case, and last question for 10mins is, the 650D has a backplate for changing the Heatsink bracket, should I mount the cpu and ram outside of the case then do the CPU Cooler in case or out case?
 
I can't find one, did your usb cables come with your Motherboard or case?

I think I need to buy a pre braided 24Pin and 8Pin PSU extension because I want to keep wires to a minimum, soo expensive but can't really afford a tool to get out the pins of a normal extension. I think it will take me a good week to get this how I want it xD
The adapter is listed here http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/Bitfenix-Internal-USB-30-Adapter-pid-13747.html but they have no stock. Caseking in Germany has stock but want about 25 Euro!
The cables came with the case. The are part of the bunch of stuff in the top right behind the front panel and are the ones with the regular USB plugs on them. These need to be threaded through the case and out through an ungrommeted rectangular hole at the top back. You can then put the plugs (if you want) into the USB 3 sockets on the back of the case.
 
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