gaming computer

[Lu(ky]

Junk 800 watt power supplies are junk. Quality 600 watt power supplies are better than junk 800 watt power supplies. It really is that simple.

Lu(ky, considering the guy doesn't even want to build a system, no way would I recommend overclocking. Not that it's hard, but it actually can cause issues that need troubleshooting while a normal non-oc'd build wouldn't.

Quoted for truth!

Well with the new Z77 mobo they have one button OC but I know what your talking about. I just saw that he had a 3770 up there and assumed he wanted to do that.
Any Seasonic or Corsair PSU GOLD above 650 or higher will work. I was running my Seasonic 650 X Gold with my GTX 690, 3770K, 2 x OCZ V4 raid 0 with no problems. I really like the Seasonic because of the Sanyo Denki San Ace PWM Silent Fan they are very quiet..

[Fizz]

Seasonic is one of my favorite PSU brands. They do have a bit of a brand premium that I think slightly reduces their value but for systems that need to be quiet, efficient and reliable with great post sales support I accept very few substitutes.

[billofrights]

I put a 1kw from PC Power & Cooling in my gaming rig. Pricey but I've never had one die on me.

[dynamomark80]

If I was to buy a gaming pc I would probably gut go to Ibuypower.com and get one.
Not to bad on pricing and they seem to have a good reputation.

[Mountain Max]

Get a motherboard with an onboard RAID controller and then put 2 SSD's in raid 0 for your operating system. Thank me later :-)

[Quiet]

Check out CyberPowerPC.
I bought my computer from them last year.
Great deals can be had this month due to their "black friday/november" sales.

[Fizz]

Get a motherboard with an onboard RAID controller and then put 2 SSD's in raid 0 for your operating system. Thank me later :-)

Eh, the higher end SSDs can get pretty close to saturating SATA 6gbps on their lonesome for reads (where most people want the performance). You can improve write performance with the RAID 0, but your Reads will be largely unaffected by the RAID 0 with modern SSDs. The individual raid controllers also play a large role. Ex. if you have a hardware raid card with a lot of volatile cache.... all of your writes up to the limit of the cache to the virtual drive will be probably be limited by the bus speeds VS the drives attached to the RAID controller. However, battery backed controllers, UPS's, etc. become more important here. There are also variances in optimizations/implementations for all the controllers out there; some work better with some Levels than others.

Given the cost, I think your money's better spent on a single SSD. If you notice, most SSDs ramp up in performance the larger capacity you get. This is because SSDs with more non-volatile storage are essentially striped internally.

Ex. Look at the difference in specs between the 64 GB Crucial m4 and the 256GB m4. Notice a trend in write VS Read speeds? The reads are the same, but the writes increase as capacity increases, pretty significantly. 256>512GB sees no difference.