Originally posted by Pumpkin
I have the i5 2500k and a Hyper 212 Plus (£25) stable overclocked to 4.5ghz with a HAF 912 case. Water cooling is completely useless sorry.
Edit: Also don't take any of that guys advice, he has no idea what he's doing. He listed 1333mhz ram (slower than the newer 1600mhz), useless watercooling, a 750w PSU for a single card? You can run that setup on a 450w PSU easily, also that CD drive is a pile of shit.
Oh great, let's justify this.
1) The 750W PSU is a good deal for something that he WILL want to upgrade down the line. No one buys a ****ing PC to throw it out when they want an upgrade, go buy a Mac if you want that.
2) Water cooling is NOT pointless. Regardless what you want to say, the higher the temperatures are on your CPU the lower the life of your CPU will be. CPU technology is years ahead of GPU technology, meaning that you would want to upgrade your GPU before your CPU, not vise versa because you were a retard and decided "it's a waste of money"
3) The RAM I have listed is FINE. You will notice a small increase in performance. RAM is cheap, so I guess you are right on this one, but for a gaming build, the difference will not be noticeable, it's all about the GPU/CPU really.
I won't even comment on the CD drive because it's great. It hasn't let me down a single time and has had no reading or writing errors at all.