SO its time to upgrade as I fried my last pc. Im looking to spend $1700 including a new monitor, speakers, keyboard etc. as my old monitor only accepts vga and my speakers are well shit. I may upgrade the gpu if i need to down the line later on.

Speakers or a headset?

this should be around 1300 or so, add screen, kb etc

CASE: Corsair Carbide 400r
PSU: FSP Aurum GOLD 700w
MOBO: Asus P8Z68-V LX
CPU: Intel core i5-2500k, 4 cores @ 3.3Ghz
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8gb 1600mhz
HDD: Seagate Barracuda Sata3 1Tb
ODD: OEM 24x DVDrw
GPU: GTX-560Ti 1Gb or HD6950 1Gb
OS: MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
CPU-C: Aywun RADI V10 or similar $40 cooler

Remove the SSD if you don't want it and sub it for a set of Audio-Technica ATH-AD700's, can get them for $129 on ebay and then buy a Logitech USB Desktop Mic for about $30.

Ive got a headset already, just looking for a decent speaker system incase of hot days.

Also razer blackwidow or leopold cherry? my mates have said to get either, i cant choose.

Not the blackwidow

www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=567_568&products_id=17407

Corsair SP-2200 2.1 PC Speaker System for $95.00.

Also using my astro mixamp will i need a sound card? my mates said to just you the one on the mobo.

Don't know about the Astro mixamp, but apparently that sound card I put in is one of the best for the price afaik.

Also, get Karma to build it for you

You dont need a sound card save yourself 100$... theres one onboard the mobo. get a soundcard if you have the money to throw (onboard is fine tho anyways)

This is my PC rig


1 x Intel S1366 Xeon X5650 2.66GHz Hex Core CPU




1 x Corsair HX-650 Power Supply




1 x 21.5" Asus VH228T LED monitor with speakers




1 x Corsair Cooling Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler




1 x Gigabyte S1366 G1.Sniper Motherboard




2 x DDR3 6GB (3x2G) Corsair 1600MHz RAM Triple Channel Kit




2 x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 7200rpm 32M SATA HDD




1 x NVIDIA GTX570 OC 1280Mb Gigabyte PCIe Video Card




1 x CoolerMaster HAF X Full ATX Case Black RC-942-KKN1 (No PS)




1 x Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Elite Mechanical Switch Gaming Keyboard




1 x Pioneer BDR-206BK 12x Blu-Ray DL Burner SATA Black OEM




1 x ASUS NX1101 PCI Gigabit Network Card




1 x MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit OEM

Total price $1200

.............why?

Stupid choices tbh.

LOL,only a few things wrong here:-

1. A xeon that isnt optimised to run windows 7
2. a 650w psu with all that other high end gear
3. all that for a 21" screen
4. no ssd
5. only a 570
6. haf
7. razer
8. bluray
9. NIC
10. all for $1200, when the cpu is $1000, nice troll mate.

go back to MW3 you ******