Spec me £1000 gaming PC

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Building a rig for my brother with a budget of £1k. He needs everything apart from the OS (so include monitor, keyboard, mouse etc). It will be used for general internet and moderate gaming. It needs to be quiet (hence the H60 and Apache fan) and preferrably no LEDs.

Here is a quick spec I came up with. Any suggestions on how to improve this for the money or reduce the cost without too much of a performance hit? Is everything compatible? I'm not up to speed with motherboards - it would be useful to have a board that will take Ivybridge a few years down the road and capacity to add another GTX480.

EVGA GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (015-P3-1480-KR) £184.99
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £167.99
BenQ G2450HM 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £143.99
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) £127.99
Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-GEN3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £105.59
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT064M4SSD2) £76.99
Corsair Hydro H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775/AM2/AM3) (CWCH60) £62.99
Corsair Builder Series CX 600W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-600CXUKV2) £59.99
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1333C9) £37.99
BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £31.99
Samsung SH-S222AL/RSMS 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Beige/Black/Silver) - Retail £20.99
Akasa AK-FN058 Apache Black Super Silent 120mm Fan - 4 Pin PWM £13.99

Sub Total : £862.90
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £20.10
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £176.60
Total : £1,059.60
 
Made some changes, hope you dont mind:)


YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (015-P3-1480-KR) £184.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £167.99
1 x Iiyama ProLite E2409HDS 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £125.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-GEN3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £105.59
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £94.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £83.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT064M4SSD2) £76.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £52.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £37.99
1 x Logitech G400 3600DPI Gaming Mouse (910-002279) £24.98
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler (Socket Intel® Socket LGA1366/1156/1155/775/AMD Socket FM1/AM3+/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £21.98
1 x LG GH22NS70 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
1 x OcUK Black Gaming Keyboard (5105GU) £10.99
Total : £1,032.58 (includes shipping : £20.10).





• Powerful PSU, has the power to run a pair of GTX480's
• Better case has four fans fitted as standard.
 
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Cheers Stulid. Are the CPU cooler and case fans likely to make it a more noisy system?

Can the case fan LEDs be easily turned off?
 
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Thanks Stulid.

I did consider a 560ti (448 core) instead of the 480 but benchmarks show that the 480 is slightly more powerful and is cheaper, although more noisey under load. Assume this is correct?

Is there an alternate case I could consider? I really want to avoid LEDs if possible, but at the same time have something with some cable management and decent airflow potential.
 
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