I do some light gaming and, truthfully, I wanted a rig that could run the newest Dragon's Age. With the monitor and gaming, I'm not sure I want/need IPS. The one I listed shows a nice speed, though it has some bad comments regarding ghosting, which turned me off in the end. I'm not sure if a generic 5ms monitor isn't all I need in the end. And to ramble further, while I know there should be a shitload of monitor deals the past week, I haven't really seen much.
The other qualifier is video editing, so I'm not entirely sure whether to suck it up for an i7 or if the i5 can get the job done just fine.
The video card business drives me nuts. I start fully intending to buy a Geforce, look at benchmarks and wind up buying a AMD for $30 less, then find the one game in its generation that has issues with AMD vs Geforce and spend the next several years with buyer's remorse. That said, I don't think I'm going to find a better bang for the buck than a 760 for $170.
Thanks for the advice on the PSU. All the advice one gets is to buy a Seasonic, and while I understand, my dumpy Antec I bought five years ago is still chugging along just fine. I'll probably dump a couple additional spindle drives into the box, but I'm assuming 600 watts won't blink at that. Are there ever any decent sales on PSUs that aren't rebate fueled? I hate rebates.
Those OCZ SSDs are super cheap right now and my brother is running one with no problems at the moment but I thought they bankrupted due to shit products? From all the research I've done, the Samsung and Intel SSDs are supposed to be fairly foolproof and fast. The price on that Samsung got me drooling, but the 500 GB drive prices seem to be in freefall. If the Samsung 500 GB EVOs start going on sale for $150 a month after I buy a 250 GB for $100, I could see some serious buyer's remorse setting in. So, the question becomes, the $100 EVO today, the 500 GB OCZ despite the bad rap or wait a month and see what happens?
Thanks for the feedback, man.