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BlueFalcon on 23 December 2012
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zuvuyeay said:

i've been looking at a build seriously the last couple of weeks to get in the new year i think i will get 660/660TI ,i5- quad 3570K,16gb ram 1886,coolermaster silencio 650 case,corsair 750 enthusiast psu,corsair h40 hydro cooler,caviar black 1TB WD,this is my full budget,not really sure if i need better PSU/coolers

oh and a asus p8z77-v m/b these are the offers in the build,i could shop around here and there to save a £100 i guess but to be honest it gives me a headache with so much choice

i can't really afford an ssd on top of all of this,just looking for something to take me for a few years

Have you considered Asrock motherboards? They pack a lot of features for the price, like Asrock Z77 Extreme 3 or 4. 

Low end AIO watercooling is weak. Don't buy into the hype of inferior all-in-one watercooling. The only good ones are H80 and H100 and even those get beaten in performance vs. noise levels by the top air coolers like Noctua NH-D14 or Thermalright Silver Arrow. See if you can find Thermalright True Spirit 140, NZXT Havik 140, Zalman CNPS14x Pure Aluminum or Scythe Mugen 3 or something like that for a price similar to the H40. Those are way better, but I don't know what they cost from the stores you are buying. You can drop a link to the stores you are buying from and I can recommend something from there.

If you want a quiet case, maybe also consider the Fractal Design Define R4. It has a front opening door so that if you need more airflow, you can always keep the door open and install 2 fans there. I am personally not a fan of cases with poor airflow for the sake of silence. I like to have 2 front fans taking air in like Corsair Carbide 400R. The Fractal Design R4 is a good compromise I suppose between silence and still having the ability to improve front airflow with the door open. 

Can't say if that PSU is a good value since again don't know what the prices for competing PSUs are. Some PSUs are made by top-notch companies and might cost less. For example, XFX Silver rated PSU are all made by SeaSonic which is Tier 1. Those might cost less than your Corsair 750. Corsair makes a lot of different 750 versions too from Bronze to Silver. All of those are made by different companies.

The Asus GTX660Ti for under £230 with 2 free games sounds like a decent deal:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-asus-gtx-660-ti-directcu-ii-28nm-6008mhz-gddr5-gpu-915mhz-boost-980mhz-cores-1344-2x-dl-dvi-dp-h

or the Gigabyte GTX660Ti:
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-gigabyte-gtx-660-ti-windforce-2x-28nm-pcie-30-6008mhz-gddr5-gpu-941mhz-boost-1019mhz-cores-1344-

The MSI 660Ti is even cheaper than both of those:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-msi-gtx-660-ti-oc-28nm-pcie-30-(x16)-6008mhz-gddr5-gpu-941mhz-boost-1019mhz-cores-1344-dp-hdmi