I would stick with a 2500k and 8gb of ram, put any extra money after the SSD into the best GPU you can afford.

No, you will run 12gb in dual channel. However, if you 2x2gb kit is say 1600mhz and your new 2x4gb kit is 1333mhz, all your ram will downclock to 1333mhz. If all your ram is the same speed, then all is good.

I have 2 of the VH236H's, which is the same monitor minus the HDMI port and they have been great for the 8 months I have had them so far. Just don't expect much from the built in speakers, they arn't great but will get the job done if need be.

1440x900 to 1920x1080 is a great jump to make, just realize that it is also a huge jump for you GPU to take as well. Make sure you have the gpu power the make the jump worth it. My 2 cents.

Not sure of the games you play, but from the sound of it, if you get rid of the 1100t you might be stuck with that 840 for bf3 and you would really be hating yourself then.

Though I agree that if you are not having any problems there is no reason to update the bios, its's really not hard and is not something you should be afraid to do.

Its a matter of downloading an iso file and burning to a disk, pressing a couple of buttons on the keyboard when prompted, and pressing reset. Not hard.

For the most part the ones that come on the disk with your mobo are just fine. I have an Asus p67 mobo and I updated the bios drivers from their website because I was getting huge jumps in my vcore with the stock drivers and the update fixed it. But for the most part the ones on the disk are all you need.

Thanks for all the replies/advice, after reading reviews i decided that 1155 is the way to go as i heard that they will incorporate the new "Ivy Bridge CPU's" to the P67 Chipset when they are released. So myupgrade will be,

intel core i5 2500k

asus p8p67 pro

noctua nh-c14

gtx 580

corsair hx850

Hope, that it will be future proof and the use of "Ivy Bridge" be supported

second_2_none

Yep, this is the way to go. 2500k with a good heatsink to go 4.5ghz+, a good mobo and psu for future sli, and a great gpu. your 4gb ram at 1600 is great for now, no need to go over that for just gaming.

Edit: plus selling you old cpu, mobo, gpu, and psu will probably at least cover the cost of the 2500k and the hx850, if not more so its not a total loss.

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No need to get an SSD if you don't have the cash, but I would suggest that after you get everthing all setup, you do a fresh install of you OS on that 250gb hdd. As long as it is a 7200 rpm drive it will be a bit more snappy if you have just the OS on its own drive and install all your programs and media on the 1TB. Plus you can buckup the OS to a partion on the 1TB, although it looks like you already have an external to backup too. D'oh nevermind.

airshocker

I wouldn't even know how to go about setting it up that way. Got anything on hand I can read?

Well since you have an external HDD, before you do anything save any movies, pics, and documents to that. Then, I am assuming you are using a retail or oem copy of windows 7, just install your new mobo and parts into the new case. Then just hook up the 250gb hdd without the 1tb installed and install windows to the 250 HDD.

Then, once windows has installed, shut down the pc and hookup the 1tb hdd. When you start up the pc go under disk manager and you will have to format the 1tb hdd. Now you can transfer back all your pics, movies, documents. Then reistall steam and you games to the 1tb hdd and make sure you always install new stuff to the 1tb and you should be good to go.

Oh, one last thing, since you are reinstalling windows to the same disk drive, all you old files will be saved in an old folder called windows.old. I always just delete that folder because it will be however big all the stuff you had of the drive was, so it just takes up like 150gb or whatever and isnt needed.

No, the price is twice what it should be. That sound identical to my first build, E6850, 8800gtx, and 2 gb ram. It was very pricey and sweet, but that was March of 2007. In all honesty that pc is about as powerful as a xbox 360, so if he was selling it for $150 then maybe, but if he thinks its worth 400 I doubt you can talk him down that low.