Building high-grade PC

sym

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Hello;

I am so sick of my laptop running games badly, rendering video badly, transferring data slowly, practically everything besides working on Microsoft office is slow.

So I'd like to get a high grade PC!

I've settled on two options but I'd like some opinions on them:

Option 1:

Intel i7 3770K CPU OC 4.4G
Noctua D14 Super CPU Cooler
Z77X-D3H Motherboard Intel Z77 Chipset
8G DDR3 Kingston 1333Mhz
1 x 120G Corsair SSD + 1x 2TB Seagate SATA3 ST2000DM001 7200rpm
2G Geforce GTX 680 PCI Express 3.0 256bit
Cooler Master CM692 case with Hot swappable HDD Bay + Cooler Master GX750W Power
Logitech USB keyboard mouse
24” Samsung S24B300H LED Monitor
LG blu-ray Burner SATA
Built in Gigabit Lan Audio USB 3.0, SATA3 SATA Raid
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

Total price $2,280.00

1yr parts 5yr labour RTB warranty

Option 2:

Cooler Master HAF XM Red
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz
Asetek 570LC
ASUS P8Z77-V LX
Corsair Vengeance 8GB
Western Digital 2TB Caviar Black 7200RPM
Crucial M4 64GB SSD
Nvidia Geforce GTX 670 2GB
Corsair TX850 850 Watt
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Internal Wireless N 150Mbps
All-in-one Card Reader
ASUS Xonar DX 7.1
Office Software - Microsoft Office Home & Student
Acer 21.5'' 1920 x 1080 LCD Monitor
RAZER Imperator Black Laser Ergonomic Gaming Mouse
RAZER Arctosa Gaming Keyboard
RAZER Carcharias Professional Gaming Headset

Price: $2,643.84

4 Years Parts and 4 Years Labour

The first option has better internal parts therefore making for a more powerful system and of it's cheaper of course.

However the second system has better external parts in my opinion with a HAF XM, card reader, wireless, Microsoft office and WAY better peripherals. It also has a proper sound-card, not just integrated sound. But it is more expensive and is a weaker speced system.

What do you guys think?
 
For $2500 you could build a BEAST of a machine, those pre built systems your looking at are waaay overpriced in my opinion. I'm building myself a new pc very shortly and I have the newest AMD processor (FX 8150) in my build and my budget is $700, and I'm just under it if you don't count taxes and shipping, which I don't :D

Cheers!
 
Looks very solid. Only one monitor? With that hardware you could run 3 of them, and run games at full across all 3.

-edit-
referring to option 1. It's a lot better.
 
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