New 1200€ system. Need advice

iZver · Dec 27, 2012

Hey.

I'm going to build a new pc in about 1 month. I've a couple of questions. But first and foremost, should I wait some time for the next generation of things to come?

I'll be investing about 1200€.
I play games. Some photoshop.
I live in EU. I can order from germany. I can order from germany, but prefer sites in Slovenia. Good ones:
www.sestavi.si http://www.mimovrste.com www.enaa.com

sestavi.si is where i'll be buying most so if u can pick items from there that'd be awesome

My question to you is: which mobo? should I wait some time for a reason? are these compatible?

I'm thinking about this right now:

ASRock Z77 EXTREME4 or ASUS P8Z77-V LE
Which one?

INTEL Core i5 - 3570K
DDR3-RAM KIT 8 GB, 1866 MHz, CL9, CORSAIR Vengeance
ASUS GTX670-DC2-2GD5, retail, 2048MB
WD 1TB 7200 64MB SATA3 BLACK WD1002FAEX

SSD Samsung 840 120GB SATA3 MZ-7TD120BW (7mm)
This good?
Maybe SSD 128GB 2.5'' SATA3 MLC, CRUCIAL m4

CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 V2
DVD-+R/-+RW SATA LITEON iHAS122
CORSAIR GRAPHITE 600T

DavidGP · Dec 27, 2012

Hi

I have the ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe and its very good, not issues so far, would the CPU and i5 option be a cost one over an i7? (only curious on this as I have a i7 3770K running at present via the bios settings @4ghz)

Ram I have similar in the Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866Mhz

I would have an SSD as your main drive and use the HDD as secondary storage, I have an OCZ Vertex 4 - 256GB and Windows is quite linking it for speed. I use other SSDs and HDDs are storage and backup drives and one with Virtual Machines of other OS's on it.

Graphics card is good.

Case is nice but as a PSU is not supplied what one are you thinking of and DO get a well know branded PSU as you cannot skimp on the PSU at all. A modular one is a good choice as you can connect only the cables you want. I would be looking at Corsair, Zalman, OCZ etc for PSU and possibly around the 800W area, as you have to be careful as the ones like mine at 1000W are large and may not fit in many cases easily.

Keep doing some research on brands and what ones work best for the cost, and wait for a few more suggestions for the other forum users also.

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