Building a desktop for the first time

[zarx]

Rath said:

Slimebeast said:
A well balanced system. Rath, for how long do you plan to keep it? Any plans to upgrade the GPU down the line?

Hoping to keep it for ~3 years before doing much in the way of upgrading. 

@Andrew - does it make much of a difference?

@Zarx. How much difference is there between the 2500k and the 3570?

It's basically the same CPU just at 22nm instead of 32 and 100Mhz faster base clock, and draws 77W at peak instead of 95W. It's only a few dollars more so the power savings will probably end up saving you mony over the next few years lol.