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if your gonna spend all that money you may aswell get 2133 ram. a good sound card, headphones, nice mouse mat. sound is important, onboard sounds sh!t by comparison. and what about speakers? personally i would spend money on speakers quicker than i would a case, much quicker. having bullets zip around your room in 5.1 or better with some quality bass adds alot to the experience. and yeah there is no need for more than 750w psu.
if you dont want to spend more money, then i would skim money from your choice of case (there is never any *need* to spend more than $50 on a case unless you are doing -extreme- overclocking or want a show case. the motherboard, the one you have chosen is very overpriced. its little different from many boards around half the price. the graphics card, as you are paying $250 for perhaps 5% more graphics power, and the CPU. just like the GPU you pay a premium for whatevre is right at the top of the line. you can save some money and get a 2700k and you wont notice any difference.
for speakers, look at the logitech z906, they are very good, and for sound card, you should be looking at a creative or asus card ~$100 would be about how much i would spend if i were spending 2.5k to set up a gaming pc.
Ryan_Som
For the case, I just figured it would have plenty of room / fans for ventilation. I was going to go with the 1000w PSU because I didn't want to question whether I could run two high-end GPUs in SLI (i.e. 2xGTX690s. Yes, I know that's overkill.). I did plan on getting a separate, better sound card. For speakers right now, I have a set of Klipsch speakers. It's only a 2.1 setup, but it sounds really good and I bought them as a holdover until I get a nice 5.1 setup. I have a 5.1 setup for my TV / home theater setup, but it's just and HTIB deal which I plan on switching out for a component setup with a separate receiver later.
For headphones, I have a decent set of Sennheiser HD280s and for a mouse pad I have the X-trac Pad Ripper that's something like 11x17". Other potential reasons for something like a 690 or an SLI setup is that I'm interested in doing a tri-monitor setup for Surroundvision with 3D down the road.
Thanks for the responses so far everyone. I appreciate it. I added that Z68 mobo to my wishlist a while ago, so I figured there'd be a better board out there now. I'm adding a Z77 to my list.
it looks like your pretty much set then. you will have plenty of room in that case but you will also have plenty of room in some cases half the price. even though 2.1 may sound good for music, its bad for games. you cant detect what is infront or behind you, there is no sound-scape. also onboard sound will not move sound around your speakers proportionally, like, for example, they cannot create a sound which appears to be directly behind you (if you are using 5.1). sound will either play from the back left or right speaker and cant work together to create a sound that comes from directly behind. its useless for accurately locating a source of a sound in a game. so i would get those changed up as a priority. i hope you enjoy your pc gaming experience :)
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