New gaming PC please help!

gafis

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Hello, can you help to build gaming pc please. Is this good, or I need to change something?

What I build by mi self is that:

1.Corsair Hydro H100i Water-Cooling CPU Cooler £93.58 inc. VAT
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Coolers+-+Water/Corsair+Hydro+H100i+Water-Cooling+CPU+Cooler+?productId=52951

2. Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivy Bridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £247.50 inc. VAT
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Processors+-+CPUs/Processors+-+Intel/Core+i7+-+Socket+1155+%28Ivy%29/Intel+Core+i7-3770K+3.50GHz+%28Ivy+Bridge%29+Socket+LGA1155+Processor+-+Retail+?productId=49758

3. 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance Racing Red 2133MHz CL11 DDR3 Dual/Quad Channel Kit [CMZ8GX3M2A2133C11R] £79.99 inc. VAT
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory+-+RAM/DDR3/Dual+Channel+-+%282133MHz%29/8GB+%282x4GB%29+Corsair+Vengeance+Racing+Red+2133MHz+CL11+DDR3+Dual%2FQuad+Channel+Kit+%5BCMZ8GX3M2A2133C11R%5D+?productId=50780

4. ASUS P8Z77-V PRO/THUNDERBOLT Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) Motherboard £199.99 inc. VAT
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Motherboards+-+Intel/Socket+1155+-+Intel+Z77/ASUS+P8Z77-V+PRO%2FTHUNDERBOLT+Intel+Z77+%28Socket+1155%29+Motherboard+?productId=52606

5. Asus HD 7950 DirectCU II V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99 inc. VAT
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards+-+GPUs/Graphics+Cards+-+AMD/Radeon+HD+7950/Asus+HD+7950+DirectCU+II+V2+3072MB+GDDR5+PCI-Express+Graphics+Card+?productId=53480

6. Mushkin Chronos 240GB 2.5" SATA-III Solid State Hard Drive £159.54 inc. VAT
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Storage/Hard+Drives+-+SSD/100GB+-+260GB+SSD/Mushkin+Chronos+240GB+2.5%22+SATA-III+Solid+State+Hard+Drive+?productId=49034
 

dragonlord12832

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You could dump the i7 and get an i5 instead, use the savings for more ram (if your MB will hold it), or pocket the money. I don't think the cost difference between the i5 and i7 is worth the slight performance upgrade.
 

Lord Tumnas

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as Dragonlord12832 said, the i7 isnt worth it for gaming, switch to an i5-3570k and overclock it a bunch.
with the leftover cash, upgrade to a 7970 or grab an extra 8GBs of RAM, the 7970 would give a better performance upgrade though