New Rig

[SwampFox]

Alright guys- it's time to let the troll out of the box. I ordered my last comp from Dell (which finally crashed and burned after about 7 years of faithful service) In my gaming history I've played Runescape (mmorpg crack), Diablo II, the MechWarrior series, the original PlanetSide, and then I jumped from that into Warcraft III and WoW... I joined the US army and shifted into the newer console based games shortly there-after.

Friends have urged me to come back to WoW, or Diablo III, but there's only one game that really meets my desire for player based content and metagame. (Hoping that this is still intact since the game is meant to appeal to more mainstream players)

To that end I've assembled a rig, primarily utilizing NewEgg.com. I'm retired from the Army, and work for a Microsoft Partner now in South Carolina so picking up an operating system is not an issue . Without further ado:

Amazon
Thermaltake Armor Revo- Snow Edition- 187

New Egg
CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 Desktop Memory Model CMD8GX3M2A1866C9 - 85
Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770K - 339
EVGA 02G-P4-2678-KR GeForce GTX 670 FTW 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - 400
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard- 239
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2CCA 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) with Transfer Kit- 129
CORSAIR CWCH60 Hydro Series H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler- 65
Logitech S-220 17 Watts 2.1 Multimedia Speaker System – OEM – 25
Logitech G930 USB Connector Circumaural Wireless Gaming Headset- 125
Razer DeathAdder – 42
RAZER RZ02-00420100-R3U1 Scarab Expert Hard Gaming Mouse Mat - 40
HP 2311x Black 23" 5ms Full HD LED BackLight LCD Monitor Slim Design 250 cd/m2 DC 3,000,000:1 (1,000:1)- 220

Razer
Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Stealth Edition- 140


Now there are some pieces that I already have. I've got 2 old harddrives for storage, and a 500w power supply.

Total Rig comes out to a little over 2k, but that's not so bad for a top to bottom build, and I've planned the purchases out over the next 4 months (completion deadline in Dec). I don't want to really expand my budget anymore, so additions of more than 20-40 bucks will require cuts. But I want to get a stellar gaming experience out of this new forgelite engine, so I'd be very interested to see if anything jumps out at anybody as a particularly good or bad idea.


Anyways, thanks for checking out my ramble