Thoughts on my choices?

Mickey_37

Hello all,
I want to upgrade the major parts of my PC but it's been a long time since I did any major upgrades and could do with your help in narrowing down "the best bang for my buck".
I have a maximum budget of €550 including shipping.

I don't need a graphics card, I have an nvidia GTX460 1 GB, which will do me for now and
I’m happy enough with my 1TB SATA HDD for now until the prices come down.
I have a good 690w 80+ power supply. (i'll have to open up the case to check the name but i know i bought a good one.)

So I’m just looking for a CPU, motherboard, memory and a case.
Here is what I’ve put together,

CPU: Core i5 2500k
http://www2.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=41224&agid=1617

Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3
http://www2.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=50889&agid=1601

Memory: 8GB-Kit Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHz CL8
http://www2.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=40703&agid=1193

Case: FRACTAL DESIGN Gehäuse Core 3000 black
http://www2.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=49192&agid=631

That all totals up to €500.91 including shipping.

Serephucus

Your component choices look good. You could spend the extra on a nicer case:

http://www4.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=36381&agid=631

Or maybe look at a cheap SSD to speed everything up a bit? You may have to bump up the budget slightly for that though, depending.

deconduo

Vengence RAM is overpriced and the heatspreaders are a pain. This kit is almost half the price and the drop in performance is negligible:

http://www2.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=44315&agid=1192

Apart from that it looks good.

Mickey_37

Thanks for the replies guys. I swapped the RAM out for the cheaper G.Skill but I think I’ll stick with the case. It has everything I need and keeps the price down. Which should cover the price of BF3!

just wondering, i was hoping to overclock the i5 in the future, would the g.skill memory be good enough for overclocking with the CPU to 4.5?

Monotype

Memory has no impact on overclocking with that platform.