Hey,
I'll be starting my first build in about a month, and was hoping to get some opinions / suggestions on what I'm currently leaning towards. In terms of budget, I could go as high as about $1500, but would prefer to keep it in the $1300 range. I'm upgrading from a laptop, so I need everything, including a monitor. I'll be doing some gaming, but don't need top of the line type quality. Running on high settings for most games on a 1080p monitor is plenty, hence my current thinking of a gtx 650 ti boost.
I also have a fairly large media library that I would like to host from the build through plex, which is why I want at least a 2tb hdd in addition to the SSD.
Here is the link to what I'm currently thinking about: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VGT1
Overclocking is a possibility down the line, and asthetics are important to me, so I like the idea of a liquid cooling system. However, if others have had less than positive experiences with these types of closed loop systems, I would be willing to reconsider that position.
Overall, I'm just looking for any advice in terms of whether you think what I have now is good, whether anything I have now is overkill, what should be better, etc.
Thanks
I'll be starting my first build in about a month, and was hoping to get some opinions / suggestions on what I'm currently leaning towards. In terms of budget, I could go as high as about $1500, but would prefer to keep it in the $1300 range. I'm upgrading from a laptop, so I need everything, including a monitor. I'll be doing some gaming, but don't need top of the line type quality. Running on high settings for most games on a 1080p monitor is plenty, hence my current thinking of a gtx 650 ti boost.
I also have a fairly large media library that I would like to host from the build through plex, which is why I want at least a 2tb hdd in addition to the SSD.
Here is the link to what I'm currently thinking about: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VGT1
Overclocking is a possibility down the line, and asthetics are important to me, so I like the idea of a liquid cooling system. However, if others have had less than positive experiences with these types of closed loop systems, I would be willing to reconsider that position.
Overall, I'm just looking for any advice in terms of whether you think what I have now is good, whether anything I have now is overkill, what should be better, etc.
Thanks