Building a new high end gaming PC, lots of questions

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Hello,
My four years old Core 2 Duo is getting a little long in the tooth.

I am planning a major upgrade to a Core i5 based rig.

A blueprint of the specifications:

2nd generation Core i5 (i5-2500K)

Z68 chipset based motherboard (Asus / MSI / Gigabyte)

8 / 16 GB dual channel Corsair Dominator dual channel kit

A good performance SSD to complement my main Hard Drive

A Barracuda XT 2TB

A high-end cabinet (Corsair Obsidian / Antec P193... need more choices here)

Corsair AX850 Power Supply

Single Radeon HD6970 / Geforce GTX 580/570

A really nice S-IPS monitor, is the Dell U2311H a good choice?

Windows 7 64bit

My questions:

1. Which is the best Z68 board out there? Has the Z68 hit retail in India?

2. Are online stores like TechShop.in - Buy Tech Online Now!!! and Theitdepot - India's First IT Online Shopping Store reliable?

3. Is the OCZ Vertex 3 available in India? Can anybody suggest better alternatives?

4. Which is the best Nvidia graphics card vendor? Which GTX 580 should I buy? If I go for Radeon, I will get a Powercolor.

5. Which premium cabinet should I go for? Some of the tool-less cabinets cannot support heavy dual slot graphics cards well. My own experience tells me that the clips often cannot support the weight of a heavy graphics card, which sags under gravity, putting strain on the slots. I like the provision for screws here.

6. Is that 850W Corsair power supply enough? I think so, as I have a single GPU.

7. Can anyone offer further choices for S-IPS displays? I am tired of TN + Film.

Thanks,
Trinanjan.

1. ASUS z68 mobo are best

2. Yes these are reliable but offer high price than original, so better purchase from any street shop

3. Don't know

4. Well eVGA/MSI/ASUS are best nvidia manufacturer & for AMD -Sapphire/MSI/ASUS are the best (MSI GTX 580 Lightning/MSI HD 6970 Lightning)

5. It depends on your budget, you can buy NZXT Phantom if you can afford

6. Yes, it's enough like HX 850

7. i can't

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Hello,

I am having a hard time locating dealers for Corsair / NZXT / SilverStone / Antec cases in Kolkata.

Only Cooler Master seems to be available.

How do Corsair Obsidian, SilverStone and Antec P193 compare with each other?

Obsidian are awesome if it fits ur budget...

u can also consider cm atcs 840(aluminium) or haf-x(steel)

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mailme.manju said:
Obsidian are awesome if it fits ur budget...

arko1983 said:
u can also consider cm atcs 840(aluminium) or haf-x(steel)

Hmm.. but I can't find dealers in Kolkata.

I wonder if I shop online @ IT Depot / TechShop.in, will I have problems for not having a way-bill? (which is required in West Bengal)

3. Is the OCZ Vertex 3 available in India? Can anybody suggest better alternatives?

Vertex3 is available- waiting for Vertex3 Max IOPS.

Buy OCZ Solid State Drive | OCZ Solid State Drive in India

6. Is that 850W Corsair power supply enough? I think so, as I have a single GPU.

A Corsair VX550 can mostly handle a 2600K and a single high-end GPU with moderate OC on both.
Have used 2x AX750 in 2x 2600K rigs- one with HD6970 DirectCU II and one with GTX580 DirectCU II.

AX850 is a gem- though i wish it were priced a tad lower.
Do not get scared if you find the PSU fan not running when the pc is idling or under low load.

7. Can anyone offer further choices for S-IPS displays? I am tired of TN + Film.

YouTube - ‪ASUS PA246Q Professional Monitor -- The Most User-friendly Professional Monitor‬&rlm;

And as Manju sir said, if you afford an Obsidian 800D, nothing like it.
The Graphite 600T is good too.