(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I'm new to building a PC and was wondering if somebody could help me on how much i would have to spend on building a gaming PC that will be powerful enough to play games such as BF3, Black Ops 2 and ARMA smoothly, Ive got about €1000-1500 to spend.

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it will play almost every game at 60+ Fps.
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It will over clock really well, and if you want to make it better, get a bigger case, and a h100 cooler.

The above setup works really well. But if you are going to get an H80 or H100, you might as well just get a i5 3570k. They overclock on lower voltage and perform about 13-17% better. It should be the same price as the 2600k or maybe a little cheaper.

If you need ideas, you could read this article at Tom's Hardware: You must login or register to view this content.

The above build works great, however I'd take Millz advice into consideration and get a i5 3570k +1 from me.
But I'd also get some better fans than the ones that come with the H80. No point getting water cooling if you're gonna get crap noisy fans for the rad.

thank you everyone for the help. Ive used bits of what was mentioned that would work well together and i also have made a few adjustments and was wonder if all of these items were compatable.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card [GV-N670OC-2GD]

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail [BX80637I53570K]

Asus P8Z77-V PRO Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard [90-MIBHS0-G0EAY0DZ]

Cooler Master HAF X Gaming Tower Case - Black (RC-942) [RC-942-KKN1]

Corsair Professional Series AX750 High Performance 750W Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply (CMPSU-750AXUK) [CMPSU-750AXUK]

Corsair Vengeance Blue 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B) [CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B]

Corsair Hydro H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3) (CWCH100) [CWCH100]

Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** [WD10EZRX]

LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM (Version C - with new Firmware) [IHAS124-19]

That looks fine. But as I said, the fans on the H60/H80/H100 are shit and you should buy some better ones for it.

ok, thank you