Advice on choosing a build

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Victorion

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Hello everyone,

I'm really torn up in regards to choosing between these two computer builds. So the first one is one that I would build myself and the second one is straight from Amazon ready-built. I would really appreciate any advice that you guys could offer as to which one I should choose or perhaps whether I should look at some different builds entirely.

The first one would consist of the following parts:

Motherboard
ASUS Sabertooth P67 B3 TUF Edition

CPU
Intel Core i7-2600K

CPU Cooler
Corsair Hydro H100 CPU Liquid Cooler

RAM
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 16GB (4 x 4GB)

Video Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 580 (1536MB GDDR5)

Sound Card
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme 7.1

Hard Drives
Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB (64MB cache)
Crucial m4 2.5" 64GB Solid State Drive

Optical Drive
Lite-On 12X 3D Internal Blu-Ray Writer

Case
Cooler Master HAF 932 Full Tower

Power Supply
Corsair TX850W

This all comes to a total of around 2000$.

Here is the link to the second setup: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004GW7PJM/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&m=A24MQGM6UVZLP0

So there's obviously a price disparity with the two builds. Basically what my question comes down to is whether or not the first option is worth the extra $650? Would the cheaper (2nd) option still run the newer games quite well on high settings? I'm a University Student, so the 650$ is a decent amount for me, but I would spend it on the more expensive setup if it is considered worth the money.

I think that's about everything. Thank you so much in advance and for taking the time to consider my question :)
 
Well depends on what you're going to be doing with the computer.

If your doing gaming, go with the i5 2500k, cheaper and just as good as i7-2600k, just no hyperthreading.

If your doing heavy video editing, then go with the i7 2600k, the hyperthreading will have an advantage.

Replace the GTX 580 with the Radeon HD 7970, Newest card from Radeon and is faster than GTX 580 and same price.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161399

Use that H100 Cooler to your advantage and overclock your CPU to it's limits, and swap the P67 Borad with a Z68, more features.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157263

And unless you're doing heavy editing replace the 16GB of ram with 8 GB, Nothing these days can utilise 16GB of memory unless it's serious video editing.

The first one will run games on great settings, but the 2nd one, won't run games as good since the graphics card is a bit on the lower end.
 
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To manage your budget into quality for each part, build it yourself.
The first one looks great! Seems overkill and you can get the same gaming performace for less $, but it's good.
Easy to see why the second is so much less. Low end motherboard, probably value ram, 550TI instead of 580, will be a low end power supply, no SSD.
 
If it's for gaming, you shouldn't get any of they computers.

For gaming, you should get an i5-2500k. There's no need for 16GB if it's for gaming, so you should just get 8GB. The GPU is also a bad choice too. No matter what you're going to do with the computer, go with the new Radeon 7970; it's faster and around the same price.
Apart from that, the rest is fine.

If it's for video editing in the other hand, you should keep the i7-2600k and keep the 16GB of ram.

iEvo.
 
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