OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3-60G 2.5" 60GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive LITE-ON Black 12X Blu-ray Burner with Blu Ray 3D Feature SATA IHBS112-04 Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W ASUS P8P67 DELUXE (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 CORSAIR Professional Series HX850 (CMPSU-850HX) 850W ATX12V 2.3 EVGA 015-P3-1580-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Antec Lanboy air Blue Black / Blue ATX Mid Tower Computer Modular Case All of this coming from Newegg, of course. Mostly this computer will be used for gaming and for streaming said gaming. I assume the hardware would be more than sufficient for playing and streaming on high settings, but I wanted to confirm there were no descrepencies/compatibility issues before I went and bought 1800 worth of stuff.
The GTX580 is a waste. Go with a Radeon HD7950/7970 instead, or if you must have nvidia, perhaps two GTX570s. The GTX580 is so horrendously expensive for what you get.
You have decent gear but I'd move to an ASUS Z68 Motherboard (or equivalent). If you go with that Chipset you can add a 64 Gig SSD. The Z68 has Intel® Smart Response Technology which allows the motherboard to use the SSD to Cache programs (Like Games!!) giving you almost SSD performance when playing games. I recently put together a Gamer Box for my son with an Asus P8Z68 using an SSD in this mode and the performance is simple awesome. Add this to your setup and you can play everything at full settings. Enjoy! (How can I still be a Newbie. I joined this Board Monday 23 February 2004!!)
