CPU: i7 3770 8MB Cache 314$
Excellent CPU, but you have two other choices (bar the 3930K):
1) If you want to overclock, get the K version and a Z77 motherboard. An overclock of about 25%, from stock 3.5GHz (3.7GHz turbo) to about 4.4 - 4.6GHz might not be *very* helpful now (it might raise your minimum FPS slightly in some areas in badly-coded games), but it could mean the different between having up to a 25% bottleneck on your GPUs if you eventually upgrade your GPUs before you upgrade your CPU (a situation that can happen frequently except if you're of the sort who likes to get a new rig all at once). If you're willing to overclock, that ~40$ + VAT extra is worth it.
2) Haswell has already released at the beginning of the month. Wait for pcandparts to stock the Intel 4770K. Send them an email!
You'll have to couple it with a Z87 motherboard, though. Ask pcandparts for that too, and if you are willing to order from Amazon, MSI, Gigabyte, Asus are all good choices and you pick the motherboard based on your budget and the features you like (a personal favorite is Asrock's Extreme4 series of motherboards, starting from Z77 onwards).
Case: Cooler Master Storm Case Gamin 125$
Case is a personal preference honestly. As long as a case is spacious enough, has good mounting, build quality, and, most importantly, airflow (and design if you're going to be looking at the thing), it's a good case.
Hard Disk: Western Digital 1TB ( RPM=?) 71$
Don't get anything less than a Black Edition if you're going to install games on it. If you're going to install your games only on the SSD, then get a Green drive.
General rule of thumb:
1) High performance applications (games, software, OS) on a 7200RPM drive (WD Black or Seagate Barracuda 7200.xx)
2) Media (movies, music, ISOs, etc...): Green drive (5200 - 5900RPM, in the case of WD Green drives it's not stated but it hovers around that range I suppose)
Keyboard: Logitech Internet keyboard 350 9$
Not sure about this keyboard honestly. You're sure you didn't find any better keyboards? How much are you willing to spend for keyboards? Do you type a lot? If so, did you read about mechanical keyboards (costly, multiple switch types) vs. rubber membrane keyboards?
Motherboard: Sapphire Z77 Motherboard 206$
If you're going Z77, try MSI if from pcandparts, or if you're willing to ship from the USA, explore the choices you got there from MSI, Gigabyte, Asus.
RAM: Kingston 8 GB 1600 : 63$
If you're spending that much for 8GB of RAM, then make sure you go for the HyperX kits (red or blu, not sure).
One disadvantage is that those kits run at their rated speeds @1.65V. You could undervolt, but that's running RAM out of their specs (I don't recommend doing that), or undervolt and loosen the timings a bit (they will run slower than rated).
It's mostly a non-issue, but if you want to be meticulous, shoot pcandparts an email and ask them the voltage, speed, and timings their bog-standard Kingston RAM runs at, then report here.
Fan: Thermal take CPU Cooler SPINQ 61$
Ermmm...not sure why you wouldn't go for the Frio (Extreme?) at this price point? The Frio series are better.
Speaker: Logitech Speaker 32$
If you're spending this much for a rig, it pays to have good audio. Onboard vs. cheap usb soundcards, go onboard. If you want proper audio, look into a Creative Sound Blaster Z and a good pair of headphones from Sennheiser, Audio-Technica, Beyerdynamic, etc... (these are not available in Lebanon, need shipping. Yes they are worth it.)
VGA Card: ( Here comes the most important part :P ) NVIDIA Ge Force GTX680 2 GB 567$
As Avo suggested, 2x7950s are a MUCH better option. Not much justification needed, a single OCed 7950 closes the gap to or even exceeds the performance of an OCed 680 (maybe not the extreme OCed 680s).
The 7950 is the best bang for buck graphics card currently. If your budget allows, you can go for two (At that point, 850W is enough headroom for a PSU).
The MSI B75 motherboard Avo suggested does have 2 PCI-Express slots, but the second one is PCI-E2.0 x4, and only the first is PCI-E3.0 x16. Your performance will suffer if you go for CrossFire, so at least go for a good Z77 motherboard with at least 2 PCI-E3.0 x8 / x8 slots if you're going for CrossFire.
Leave a single PCI-E x1 slot if you're going to add a soundcard now, or plan to in the future (recommended!).
I realized it is above budget... is there anything I can reduce or replace to fix the price? ( Anything but the GFX Card :P )
To reduce the budget, cut the audio (but I don't like this idea), don't go for an SSD, reduce the i7 3770 to an i5 3570, maybe skip the K versions, go for a B75 motherboard, skip CrossFire and go for a single 7950. Any combination of these will surely reduce the cost.
If the setup is kinda wrong, please provide me with a setup close to this :D ( Com'on AvoK and Yasamoka :P LOL) I care a lot about a good graphics card able to play GAMES :D
Ohh, you'll be able to play games like you've never played before!
Thnx in advance
You're welcome.
EDIT: skip any pre-built configurations and choose ALL the parts yourself. This applies everywhere.
