Hello! Just making sure everything is compatible and everything.

- Corsair CMX8GX3M4A1600C9 XMS3 8 GB PC3-12800 Core i5 Memory Kit

- Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Green SATA II 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD10EARS

- Intel Core i5-2500K Processor 3.3GHz 6 MB Cache Socket LGA1155

- ASUS P8P67 PRO

- Cooler Master Elite Mid Tower Case, RC-310-BWN1-GP

- EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti FPB 1024 MB GDDR5 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card 01G-P3-1556-KR

- SilverStone Element ST60EF 600W ATX12V/EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply - Retail

It's all being ordered at Amazon for $807.94. I am tempted to go with a different video card, but the 560 Ti is $100 more. I'd rather just upgrade in a year or so.

If anyone knows of any extra cables/components I'll need, that would be helpful too.

All comments/suggestions are appreciated!

No idea, but I do like your rig sir. However, is the 550 worth it? I have always seen anything under the "60" mark isn't wonderful.

@csoup: I'm not super knowledgeable, but it seems like a decent mid-range card. Going off websites and user reviews, anyways.

If your going to go for a GFX card in that price range, buy a 460 GTX 1gb over a 550 GTX. The extra $20 is worth it.  

@JazzyJeff: Thats a solid machine, i would spring for the 560Ti personally just to futureproof, the 550 isn't so hot. I'd also look at a Z68 board instead of a p67 purely down to featureset and overclocking as you've taken advantage of the excellent 2500K CPU.

You might want to get a caviar black hard drive instead of the caviar green. i've got 2 greens in my home server, while they're excellent drives, they're sluggish in terms of speed. Best used for storage, not operating system and application.

8 gigs of ram is overkill but it probably won't be in the future and RAM is pretty cheap so sure, i can get behind that.

You won't need anything else, cable or component wise, everything will come in the power supply and motherboard box.

Thank you for the suggestions!

@Surkov: I will definitely look into that. Thanks!

@jadeskye: You are awesome. Thanks. I'll look into the hard drive, and I agree the RAM is overkill. I was going to go with 6GB, but it didn't seem like the price difference was that much.

@billnyethesciencepie: Yeah, I don't know. I was thinking of going with 6GB.

550ti is fine for most things but if you are looking to be playing BF3 on higher settings I would say go for 560.

Looks good but you might want to consider a small SSD to install your OS on. You can turn your computer on and have everything running in 20 seconds. If not, that's cool too.

@JazzyJeff said:

Thank you for the suggestions!

@Surkov: I will definitely look into that. Thanks!

@jadeskye: You are awesome. Thanks. I'll look into the hard drive, and I agree the RAM is overkill. I was going to go with 6GB, but it didn't seem like the price difference was that much.

@billnyethesciencepie: Yeah, I don't know. I was thinking of going with 6GB.

Don't go 6gb, the 6gb kits are for x58 chipsets that support triple channel ram. the p67 h67 and z68 boards are dual channel.

Why are you buying from Amazon? NewEgg will be better incase you need to RMA anything. Also Free Ship (1-2 Day normally pending on your location) compared to like a week long free ship at Amazon. 
 
Don't use a Green Drive for your Operating System. Use it for storage ONLY. Go WD Black for OS/Apps. I'd suggest you buy like a 500GB Hard Drive for OS/APPS and use the 1TB for Storage of music, movies, whatever.
 
8gigs of RAM is fine, if its 2x4GB go with that, do not get a 4x2GB kit. 
 
If you are going to OC (assuming you are cause of the K version), get some after market cooling. The H70 is nice or the Coolermaster V8, also Noctua makes some great coolers.
 
Otherwise looks fine. Go 460 instead of 550 or just got 560 and not upgrade later. GL.
 
Also look at different cases, take a look at the Antec 300. That one doesn't seem very roomy and may have cooling issues.

Don't bother with the extra 4GB of RAM, what you have is plenty for gaming and normal use. If you have the $70 to spare put it into a better Gfx card.

You should have gone with the GTX560Ti. 550 is in the low end. Btw, should have gone to Newegg instead of Amazon.

@jadeskye: Ah, okay. Glad I didn't make that mistake.

@Subject2Change: I have Amazon Prime. I'll price it out with NewEgg and Tiger Direct, and see what I come up with. Thanks for the hard drive suggestion. The 1.5 TB black is decently priced, so I may go with that. I'll also put some more thought into the video card. Thanks for the suggestions!

@Gav47: I'll take this into consideration. Thanks!

I'd upgrade the quality rating of your PSU, and if possible make it a 650-750. The Video card might be a 560, and the CPU is 'very' okay for your set-up. Sure the hell ain't going to get 'too much' out of me.I agree about geting the Caviar black with others, Also. sure liked that Cooler Master sniper case used by Tested, good design for most part.

I'll add another vote for upgrading to a GTX560 plus spending a little more on the PSU to get a 750w or bigger means you are ready to add another GTX560 sometime in the future, when or if you feel the need for it. Also Subject2Change talked about getting ram as 2 sticks not 4, having 4 sticks of ram reduces your overclocking potential, it might look better but 2 sticks will perform better.

560Ti for sure. The 550 isn't for BF3 at max settings.

That RAM isn't much good for overclocking (if you plan on extending your system's life) - go for some PC2000 C8 RAM.

with geforce cards you wanna bump up to a card in the "60" range or higher if you want very good game performance.

I dont get why anyone feels the need to get over 5gb of RAM

@billnyethesciencepie said:

I dont get why anyone feels the need to get over 5gb of RAM

You need more to play certain games; I have 4GB and can't play the Witcher 2. That said, most games are fine with 4 or so, but I can see that in the future we will need more.

@billnyethesciencepie said:

I dont get why anyone feels the need to get over 5gb of RAM

why not? i have 16 gigs of ram but its kind of a funny story how i ended up with that much.

OT - go with a 560 Ti. i have one and its a wonderful card.

@billnyethesciencepie said:

I dont get why anyone feels the need to get over 5gb of RAM

It's called Adobe Photoshop and Premiere.

For a case I would suggest the Corsair 600T (color pending on your preference). It's massive for a midtower, has great build quality and great airflow. Very solid case imo 
-Ghooble

@Tsoglani said:

@billnyethesciencepie said:

I dont get why anyone feels the need to get over 5gb of RAM

You need more to play certain games; I have 4GB and can't play the Witcher 2. That said, most games are fine with 4 or so, but I can see that in the future we will need more.

The Witcher 2 is very gfx dependent, 2GB with the proper gfx card and processor will get your running maxed out (i think)

Looks good but you might want to consider a small SSD to install your OS on. You can turn your computer on and have everything running in 20 seconds. If not, that's cool too.