I'm putting together my first ever build and have been spending way too much time researching stuff. Thought I'd throw it out to you all in hopes of getting the last bit of guidance/courage needed to pull the trigger on buying these parts. Looking to get going on this in the next couple of weeks before my work starts to heat up again.
My goal is to put together a strong gaming system which will also function as my primary home office computer -- I do a lot of media stuff w/ Photoshop, Premiere, Unity, etc. I want to be able to tweak and expand things over the next few years, experiment with overclocking (which I realize would entail a 3570k, which I'm semi-open to but I am trying to keep the budget down) and ultimately add another 660 ti via SLI. I only have one monitor now but the dream would be to go for a sweet three monitor surround setup down the road. I don't want to dive into liquid cooling right away but could go there in the future (and might have to?), who knows.
Anyway, here's the planned build. Any opinions would be much appreciated:
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H
RAM
16GB G. Skill Ripjaws X 14900CL10D-16GBXL
CPU
Intel Core i5-3570
CPU Cooler
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
GPU
MSI N660 Ti PE 2GD5/OC 192-bit
PSU
Corsair Enthusiast TX750 750W
SSD
SanDisk Extreme SDSSDX-240G
HD
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200
DVD
Samsung DVD Burner SH-224BB
Case
Fractal Design R4 Black Pearl
As of today, this all adds up to about $1250 on Newegg, which is close to the ceiling of my budget. I feel like a couple of the components might be overkill, and, simultaneously, that I'm missing some stuff that will be necessary (additional fans, for example).
My goal is to put together a strong gaming system which will also function as my primary home office computer -- I do a lot of media stuff w/ Photoshop, Premiere, Unity, etc. I want to be able to tweak and expand things over the next few years, experiment with overclocking (which I realize would entail a 3570k, which I'm semi-open to but I am trying to keep the budget down) and ultimately add another 660 ti via SLI. I only have one monitor now but the dream would be to go for a sweet three monitor surround setup down the road. I don't want to dive into liquid cooling right away but could go there in the future (and might have to?), who knows.
Anyway, here's the planned build. Any opinions would be much appreciated:
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H
RAM
16GB G. Skill Ripjaws X 14900CL10D-16GBXL
CPU
Intel Core i5-3570
CPU Cooler
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
GPU
MSI N660 Ti PE 2GD5/OC 192-bit
PSU
Corsair Enthusiast TX750 750W
SSD
SanDisk Extreme SDSSDX-240G
HD
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200
DVD
Samsung DVD Burner SH-224BB
Case
Fractal Design R4 Black Pearl
As of today, this all adds up to about $1250 on Newegg, which is close to the ceiling of my budget. I feel like a couple of the components might be overkill, and, simultaneously, that I'm missing some stuff that will be necessary (additional fans, for example).