Originally posted by xK3rune

Do a lot more research.. you don't need 850w AND stay away from Rosewill, you're overpaying.

Mobo is overkill since you don't know what ur really doing, and you should buy a different cpu cooler.

I don't think you need an 850 w but Rosewill are excellent power supplies. I've been using them for years and have yet to have one fail on any build I've done.

I personally would change a few things.

A cheaper motherboard for one. No need to pay that much for a mobo with features you will never need. something like this maybe http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130645

A better rated power supply. Nothing wrong with the brand, but that one you picked is not even bronze rated. Something like this is what I would pick. http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182264

The other components look fine to me.

Originally posted by Tayah

Originally posted by xK3rune

Do a lot more research.. you don't need 850w AND stay away from Rosewill, you're overpaying.

Mobo is overkill since you don't know what ur really doing, and you should buy a different cpu cooler.

I don't think you need an 850 w but Rosewill are excellent power supplies. I've been using them for years and have yet to have one fail on any build I've done.

It's not an issue of Rosewill being good or bad.  Rather, it depends on which particular power supply you get.  Their Tachyon power supplies are among the best on the market.  Their capstone and lightning power supplies are also very good.  Their extreme series?  Not so much.

Regardless, very few gaming rigs have any plausible need for anything over 650 W.

Originally posted by mothefo

thank you for all the feedback guys, so i've changed a few things arround, and i'm now thinking of going withe the following:

power:  Rosewill Xtreme Series RX850-S-B 850W http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182072

CPU:   i5 3770k    http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504

heatsink:  Rosewill ROCC-12001 AIOLOS 120mm   http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835200069

memory:  Mushkin Enhanced Silverline 8GB (2 x 4GB)   http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226095

motherboard:  ASUS P8Z77-V LE PLUS LGA  http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131848

ssd:       http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226237

pluss windows 7 it's going to come to 930$ before tax and shipping (995$ total).  keep in mind i'm in Canada and we pay more for everything :P. i'm still using my own case( http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811156078), dvd drive, and gtx 460 card for now. will be buying probabgly a nvidia gtx 660 or something of the sort very shortly after.

what you think?

How about a much cheaper motherboard that might well be better than the one you picked:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128544

And a much higher quality power supply for about the same price:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151119

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182071

Originally posted by Quizzical

 

How about a much cheaper motherboard that might well be better than the one you picked:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128544

And a much higher quality power supply for about the same price:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151119

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182071

 yea i got no problems saving 50$ :)....what about my  heatsink? good enough?

Originally posted by mothefo

Originally posted by Quizzical

 

How about a much cheaper motherboard that might well be better than the one you picked:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128544

And a much higher quality power supply for about the same price:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151119

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182071

 yea i got no problems saving 50$ :)....what about my  heatsink? good enough?

The heatsink you picked should be fine, as it looks like a fairly typical design with several copper heatpipes carrying heat (loosely; more literally carrying water vapor) to a bunch of aluminum fins.  I'd sooner get this, though.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099

Of the two power supplies I linked, the Seasonic is higher quality than the Rosewill, but they're both very good.  If you've got plans to upgrade in the future to a very high end, very power-hungry video card, or to go for an unreasonably large overclock of everything, I'd take the latter power supply for the extra wattage.  But if not, then I'd take the former power supply for the higher quality.  The system you're building now may or may not ever pull 300 W from the power supply at stock speeds, and an excellent 550 W power supply is plenty good enough for that.

ok so i was all ready to order and was just browsing Tigerdirect when i stumbled on this:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7541905&CatId=333

to me that looks almost indentical to my build. they just dont have SSD and win7, but they added a gtx 660 video card, liquid cooling, 8 GB more of memory and a case......wtf?  it looks way better than what i'm getting with my build for almost the same price....

is that just a shitty motherboard and power suplly? can someone please shine a light here for me? thanks

The power supply is total shit for starters, the motherboard while not being " bad" in a sense is probably ones they have not been able to sell for whatever reason.

I personally have always found it better to pick individual parts, or combo type deals with 2-3 items together if they are a good value and good components packaged together.

Most of the time with deals like this at least 2 of the components leave something to be desired. In this one the Power supply is probably better off as a doorstop. Motherboard I am not sure about, asus is a good brand overall from my experience.

You may pay a little more picking each part individually, but will always come out ahead in the quality department. There is usually a reason this stuff is discounted and packaged together. They get rid of a few non selling cheap components, sell a few high end parts and give the illusion of value to the buyer.

Originally posted by mothefo

ok so i was all ready to order and was just browsing Tigerdirect when i stumbled on this:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7541905&CatId=333

 

to me that looks almost indentical to my build. they just dont have SSD and win7, but they added a gtx 660 video card, liquid cooling, 8 GB more of memory and a case......wtf?  it looks way better than what i'm getting with my build for almost the same price....

is that just a shitty motherboard and power suplly? can someone please shine a light here for me? thanks

The power supply probably isn't bad enough to be an imminent danger to your system.  But it's very much a low-end product, and not what you want.  Not having an SSD is a big deal, too.

And you should realize that their headline price is after six separate rebates, so that's a lot of added hassle.

if you dont mind used parts .. 

www.hardforum.com has a great for sale section. i have been using that site since 2000 to build my computers.