JayWood2010 said:
Epoch said:
Overpowered CPU and excessive motherboard. you don't need that high end of a CPU for games. An i5 2400 will save you $100 and you wouldnt be able to tell the difference for games or most applications. That is actually a fairly poor choice of CPU for price/performance. See here. There is only a 5% performance gain for the $100 price difference.
Thats a good power supply, Corsair makes some of the best, but you dont need 750 W. 650W would be plenty, and you could still add another graphics card and a couple HDD's if you wanted to later on. My system, which is very similar to what you have up there, uses under 450W when at max CPU/GPU usage.
There is practically no point to overclocking an i5 or i7 for gaming, except to post to forums about how awesome you are for being able to mess around with the voltages in the BIOS. You could easily save $200 on the CPU/mobo.
Also, that case is fuckin ugly =P. I like the Lian Li cases myself. Something like this is more practical, and much better construction.
Good HDD, not sure why you chose 6GB of RAM when you could get 8GB for about the same price.
That cooler is probably unneccessary, unless you absolutely insist on OC'ing.
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Ok, so i changed my CPU to an i5 2500k. I also used your performance sight to find a different GPU, and chose the GeForce GTX 465 (Fermi). And honestly I dont want to Over clock so I got rid of the cooler. So what would be a good motherboard for it
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Nice, the 2500k is a beast. I think it actually outperforms that i7 you had selected. Good call on upgrading the GPU as well.
Your choice of motherboards is somewhat limited due to the 1155 chipset, but this one seems pretty good.
This one is a bit cheaper due to being a micro ATX, and would probably be good as well.
If you dont like either of those, just browse the selection in the LGA 1155 section and find one that has the features you want. Be sure the one you choose supports the higher DDR3 RAM (1600 ), and has 4 memory slots and you shouldnt have much trouble. Also make sure it has a PCIe 2.0 slot for your graphics card.
You will also have to change the RAM you were going to buy to some dual channel stuff. 8GB DDR3 will be plenty.
