i3
600w
8gb
560ti including the 560ti

560ti is $$$

take the following:

-AMD Phenom II X4 955
-4Gb DDR III 1333Mhz (Corsair Value Select)
-AM3 Motherboard (Asus or Asrock)
-Powersupply 450-500W (Seasonic, Cougar, Be Quiet)
-AMD HD 6870 (Asus - very silent cooling system)
-SSD Crucial M4 64/128Gb
-Samsung/WD 1Tb for data

Its fast enough for uptodate games like BF3, MW3 or Skyrim
and good for multimedia, editing etc.

way to include stuff not on my list :p although i do need mobo/hdd...im not getting ssd

HD 6870 = more expensive than my list
1333mhz = also more expensive than 1600?
500w is ok?

it's good advice though, pretty much what i bought except for a gtx 460 1gb instead of the amd 6870. ssd's freaking rule :S

I dont know about the prices in china (asia) here in germany its like:

-GFX ASUS EAH6850 DirectCu/2DIS/V2 133,- €
-GFX ASUS EAH6870 DC/2DI2S 180,- €
-RAM Corsair DIMM 4 GB DDR3-1333 Kit 18,- €
-Powersupply Cougar A450/R 50,- €
-SSD Crucial M4 2,5" 64 GB 98,- €
-Board ASUS M5A97 80,- €
-CPU AMD Phenom II X4 955 117,- €
-CPU AMD Phenom II X4 960T 107,- €

RAM DDRIII 1333Mhz is what u need for these CPUs (Dual Channel 2x 2Gb)
Powersupply 450-500w is way enough
SSD will boots your system significantly, its a must :)

why does an internal hdd cost more than external `-` the 1tb WD external i bought a couple years ago has increased by 15quid too :s

Floods.

Do you not read my journals? :S

Or you know, newpapers. Not that your journal isn't an important source of information.

:D

fuck
god punishing ladyboys (rapha told me). maybe i should take a chance with the 37quid WD 1tb being sold in china (take a chance with it not being fake)

edit: still doesnt explain why externals are cheaper (although more expensive than 2 years ago) unless they were made there too but also have a back up location for those

It will be fake (most likely).

Not sure why externals are cheaper, possibly less demand for them.

My boss said Seagate were producing approximately 50 million drives per month (could be wrong with this figure) before the floods, now they are doing approx 1.5mil, so they can't supply enough to meet the demand, hence the price going up. Plus there's now a huge backlog and it's going to take a long time to catch up.

It could be a long time until things get back to normal.

Get an SSD if you can afford it. Even the cheaper ones make your computer feel like its significantly faster.

only advantage ive heard people say is a 5 second boot up...i can wait 20s

It's not just boot time, it's read and write time. The difference is significant. The price is ofc a deterrent.

you just put C:/program files and a game in there?

mostly asian porn

me too
and korean dramas

jdramas are better
but you should watch my name is kim sam soon (kdrama)

What an ssd does is, make everything u put on it launch/boot faster. You could also set it as a buffer to make ur general hdd's faster.

I'd recommend buying an i5 over an i3 especially in combination with a gtx560ti, u dont want ur cpu to bottleneck. An i5-2300(quadcore) is about 40 euros extra here compared to the i3-2100(dualcore).