[QUOTE="Nethemis"][QUOTE="Alienware_fan"]The h80's are better and costs the same.

silversix_

[QUOTE="C_Rule"]That's $75, may as well spend an extra $10 and get the H70. Would look nice and clean too, considering you have a window.Alienware_fan

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

The HAF X is the best damn case I've ever owned or laid eyes on. All black steel, heavy, huge, it feels like it can take bullet. :P

I recently just install the H100 with 240mm radiator on top.

Nethemis

The HAF X is the best damn case I've ever owned or laid eyes on. All black steel, heavy, huge, it feels like it can take bullet. :P

I recently just install the H100 with 240mm radiator on top.

Blue-Sky

[QUOTE="pokemondude2012"]

How does this compare to the corsair h80/h100.

zaku101

For that price you could get the H100, but judging from the design it looks no different than the h80.

meh id say for that price go with a high end air cooling solution, if not go with a true Loop.

Don't buy cheap speakers from Logitech. The only quality audio stuff thet make is the high end stuff $300+

Blue-Sky

never knew 84 dollars was cheap these days :roll:

You can get a new bigger HDD, SSD is not worth it in my opinion.

You can get 4GB more Ram to make it 8GB.

Btw have you considered how much it would cost you to upgrade to sandy bridge? You already have DDR3 Ram, you can sell your CPU and mobo for $150-200 and then spend $100-150 more for a MSI P67 board and 2500k.

Gambler_3

his cpu and mobo are still good, let alone the gtx 480 he has sitting in there, But i do see where you are coming from.

Go with liquid cooling ($150+) and overclock that Q9550 to 4 GHz or so.. Then remove the fan/shroud from your videocard heatsink, put heatsinks on the VRM's ($9.99), and put 2x Vantec 119cfm 92mm fans ($12.99) on the heatsink.. Then overclock the GPU and you'll be good for Battlefield 3...-GeordiLaForge-

i totally agree with this post make the jump you won't regret it :twisted:

What do you guys think?

CASE: COOLER MASTER HAF X

PSU: CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX850

MOBO: ASUS Maximus IV Extreme-Z LGA 1155 Intel Z68

CPU; Intel Core i7-2600K

MEM: CORSAIR CMT8GX3M2A2000C9 DOMINATOR GT 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000

GPU: EVGA 03G-P3-1584-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP

STORAGE: OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II + Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA

I'm also looking for a great new set of (gaming?) speakers, I've had the Logitech Z-2300 (2.1) forever and I love them, but I figure since I'm dropping all this and it's a total upgrade, etc. For my input I'm going with the Logitech G9x mouse and G510 keyboard.

Corsair H70 for cpu cooling.

Also, the chosen monitor so far:

SAMSUNG S24A350H ToC Rose Black 24" Full HD HDMI LED

Please let me know what you think / any suggestions! This would only be my second build ever.

Dune571

if you want to run sli down the road id say opt for the z68-ud7 from GA being you're going to be spending the same amount of money on the mobo.

[QUOTE="Meat_Wad_Fan"]

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

for a 2500 dollar budget its basically going to be a core i7 2600k or hes going to wait on the bulldozer orochi octo-core

ionusX

Very true, that budget will build a godly computer. Still motherboards tend to be either sli or crossfire compatible so that's why I said to pick a gpu first aswell. Ivy bridge next year will be using a different socket than sandy right?

socket 2011

i'm actually going to wait for socket 2011, might be a bit expensive but hey i will get my money's worth.