Gaming Computer (advice)

[Tahona]

This is the setup my friend have helped me come up with so far, i want to keep it in the 1000+-200 price range, but if anyone has any suggestions to improve upon this that would be awesome. Building for ffxiv mainly

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

LIAN LI PC-7FNW Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

SAPPHIRE 100282-3SR Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ Eyefinity

XFX Black Edition P1-750B-CAG9 750W ATX12V v2.2 / ESP12V v2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model OCZ3P1333LV4GK

ASUS P7H55D-M EVO LGA 1156 Intel H55 HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80605I5750

[Celeras]

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[Tahona]

hmm the link works fine on my end, any ideas why it would do that?

[levish]

looks fine, if anything i'd go with a gigabyte motherboard over a asus and a cheaper case and and go with a 5870.

[Olo401]

ASUS P7H55D-M EVO LGA 1156 Intel H55 HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

If you're gonna build a full-size computer, use a full size ATX motherboard. It's only an extra $10 for this board but you gain added expandability and SATA 6GB capability.

Then again, I personally like to recommend Gigabyte boards so you can get this one instead for the same price as the one you picked out.

[Amastacia]

Ordinarily, I would agree with Gigabyte.

But.

Specifically for H55/H57, the ASUS boards outperform the Gigabyte offerings at the same price point.

Also, current SATA6 controllers onboard are kinda mediocre compared to standalones. They're an upgrade from SATA3 if you have or plan on using SSDs in the near future, otherwise the motherboard will likely be obsolete before SSDs hit a price point where they will be commonplace in mainstream PC builds.

[Olo401]

Why would you get a H55/H57 board? You're not using a i5 CPU with the onboard video, and even if you did you'd be disabling it in favor of a real gaming-grade video card..

[Draylo]

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Though its funny how eerily similar your post is to this one. Probably can just go read from that post and below and get everything you need.

lol that isn't me I swear. I already bought mine! Can't wait to get rid of my POS PC I have now.