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I was thinking of upgrading my old pc, q6600 4gb ddr2-1066 8800gt.
To something more up-to date, but have not been following the lastest trends and hardware, so would like you guys out there to help me out a little.
I had this stuff in mind:

- Corsair CC600TWM-WHT graphite 600T White
- Corsair A70 , aluminum base+fin with 4x 8mm HDT copper heatpipes
- Intel Sandybridge lga1155 i7-2600K - unlocked clock multiplier , 3.4ghz box cpu / 3.8ghz turbo boost
- Asus P8P67 Evo
- Corsair Vengeance with heatsink , 4Gb x2 kit - support Intel XMP ( eXtreme Memory Profiles ) , ddr3-1600 , CL9 , 1.5v - 240pin - lifetime warranty
- Asus ENGTX560 Ti DCii Top/2Di/1GD5
- OS DRIVE : Corsair CSSD-F60GB3-BRKT 60Gb Force series 2.5" SATA6G SSD , sandforce SF-2281 SSD processor , MLC Solid-State Drive , read : 550mb/sec / write 500mb/sec , Random Read/Write 4K : 60000/20000 ioPS , with BGC (Background Garbage Collection) + built-in EDC/ECC ; bundled 3.5" mounting bracket - 3 years warranty
- Western Digital caviar blacK WD2002FAEX , 2Tb/2000gb , Sata6G , dual processors unit with 64mb cache
- Corsair GS700 PSU

Total price R 14299

Any suggestions are very welcome, some people who have used this hardware and have something to report about it please let me know.

Your right on the money. Just make sure that motherboard supports SLI. ...you are going SLI right? Well even if not killer system. It will make you smile.

Very nice you sure got a nice build list for someone who doesnt follow the latest hardware?! but if i may add my 2 cents i did a lot of research on air coolers recently and the Noctua NH-D14,Coolermaster V6GT, Zalman CNPS10X Extreme were always on top. Noctua is the best at the moment. the NZXT Havik beat the Noctua in the 100% load test if i remember correctly but that cooler has not been released as yet...
and Starbound the mobo supports SLI:)

46Ross! wrote: - Corsair CC600TWM-WHT graphite 600T White - I'm Building a case
- Corsair A70 , aluminum base+fin with 4x 8mm HDT copper heatpipes - Stock cooler for now
- Intel Sandybridge lga1155 i7-2600K - unlocked clock multiplier , 3.4ghz box cpu / 3.8ghz turbo boost - Me too
- Asus P8P67 Evo - Maybe Gigabyte
- Corsair Vengeance with heatsink , 4Gb x2 kit - support Intel XMP ( eXtreme Memory Profiles ) , ddr3-1600 , CL9 , 1.5v - 240pin - lifetime warranty - Me too
- Asus ENGTX560 Ti DCii Top/2Di/1GD5 - GTX 570

And my budget is R8500 - I have contacts

Does anyone know when Nvidia will release any newer high-end gCards? As far as I know they usually do it just before Christmas. And then I saw that PCIe 3 has been released but I don't know on which products yet - should we wait for new hardware to become available which supports PCIe 3?

Why the 2600k over the 2500k?

In my case its because I can

You can't exactly put it like that. You don't pay retail and you don't have the psu and ssd added to your price.

I also buy from reseller Frontosa, not retail.
I also don't know if its worth waiting for the pci3.0 mobo's to launch and the new gpu's accordanly.

i cant see it making a huge difference because when running dual gpus in x8 x8 or x16 x16 the difference is minimal, meaning that the full potential of pcie2.0 isnt being utilized...

46Ross! wrote:I also buy from reseller Frontosa, not retail.
I also don't know if its worth waiting for the pci3.0 mobo's to launch and the new gpu's accordanly.

I have decided that if I wait for something new to arrive its going to take longer than I want to wait to do my upgrade. So I'll stick with PCIe v2. Its not like I will upgrade or add a new graphics card anytime soon after this upgrade in anyway.

StarBound wrote:You can't exactly put it like that. You don't pay retail and you don't have the psu and ssd added to your price.

Of course I can. Do I detect a hint of jealousy? I have a PSU - its awesome. I had an SSD - it broke and now SSD's are crap.

Why not 1156?

Will be a very good PC, nice specs.

Just one suggestion/comment though; the Corsair A70 is not exactly the best looking cooler around, so why not rather go for something from the Corsair Hydro Series (H50/60/70)? Alternatively look at the Cooler Master V6/V8 or a Zalman CNPS10/11 (all are better looking that the A70).