gaming pc build?good or bad?

[unholykid12]

- Cooler Master HAF 912 - $59.99
- hx650
- h67
- Intel Core i3-2120 - $129.99
- Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB 1600MHz 1.5V - $44.99
- Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 7200 RPM - $84.99
- Lite On Bulk DVD Burner - $17.99
- Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 - $169.99

also are there anything else i would need? or woudl i be able to just assemble this and be able to run and all

[SpicySnow]

You are good to go. Buy the parts and assemble it.

Re: h67. It's fine, but look at the z68/z77. If the price is about the same, you might want to pick up a z68 or z77 instead.

[unholykid12]

think i could get a link to a good z68/z77? i dont know much about this stuff and there are a lot of different choices with drastic price changes

[CrAzYsIm]

Whats your budget?

[SpicySnow]

Here's a list of z77
Newegg.com - motherboard z77

The first one off that list seems pretty good. Note: it does not support SLI.
Newegg.com - ASRock Z77 Pro3 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

or this one if you want SLI
Newegg.com - ASUS P8Z77-V LK LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

[unholykid12]

budget is like 700$ max

[hxcheyo]

Disclaimer: i'm new at this myself, far cry from an expert (spicysnow and crazysim are very good)

I doubt you'll ever SLI or crossfire considering you've got an i3 (MAY run into a bottleneck). I agree with everyone on the z77, you dont' need a ton of features so just get the cheapest z77 (the Asus p8z77-V LK is top 3 best bang for buck along with z77x-ud3h, but probably too expensive for your budget).

An SSD is the best thing you could do for your computer, but given your budget i doubt you could get an SSD with the capacity you want. Maybe go 60GB SSD for your OS and 250GB HDD? (HDD prices are way up btw, SSD prices are way down).

I doubt you'll run into cooling issues, but you might want to chuck a hyper 212 on there or some other $20 heatsink.

[SpicySnow]

($60 500GB 7200rpm) Similar hard drive, but I think it's cheaper than what you have. I stole it from someone else's parts list.
NCIX US - Buy WD5000AAKX - Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 16MB Cache 7200RPM 3.5IN SATA Internal Hard Drive OEM - Western Digital WD - Great price and fast delivery

($40 500W 80+) I don't know what price you got on that psu. But this one might be a better deal.
500W is more than eno for your current system.
Newegg.com - CORSAIR Builder Series CX500 V2 500W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
($70 650W 80+ Bronze) Also consider this one: At $70 It's at a pretty attractive price point - lowest I've seen in 4-5 months.
Newegg.com - CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 650W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply


($240) If you are within your budget, you might want to upgrade the gpu to a 7850:
Amazon.com: Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 2 GB DDR5 HDMI/DVI-I/Dual Mini DP PCI-Express Graphics Card 11200-00-20G: Computers & Accessories

($150) Also CPU: Small increase in-price - but much better performance.
Micro Center - Intel Core i5 3450 3.1GHz LGA 1155 Processor 407619


BTW, both of the CPU/GPU components you picked out are very good, and I would recommend them for a budget gaming build, but I'm still going to advise you to try your best to step up a notch in both categories. IF you go with the recommendations I supplied, your build should end up costing about $703

EDIT: W/ regards to hxcheyo's post. HE makes some recommendations regarding SSDs and the cooler that I can agree with. But, I consider them to be secondary to the more immediate concern of upgrading your CPU/GPU.

[CrAzYsIm]

Assuming he lives close to a Microcenter to pick up the item, I would recommend SpicySnow's i5 upgrade as well. If he doesn't the $70 upgrade is probably not worth it.
I would def try to get the 7850 that SS recommended as well over the 6870 that you posted though. The 7850 from what i've read is slightly better than the 6950. Having had the 6950, I was able to play BF3 @ 1080p on all High at good FPS. (Ultra became choppy) It will last you longer too before you need to upgrade.
I sold my XFX branded on eBay for $160 so you can probably get one for a good price there, yes it will be used, but the XFX ones come with double lifetime warranties so it will carry over to you (Not sure about the 7xxx series, that might only be single lifetime)