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It's pretty amazing. It comes with a color calibration report sheet for your individual monitor. Looks every bit as good as my 27" iMac screen did.

And for the critics, dont be so quick to think that I JUST bought this for Diablo and light photo editing... and if I did how does that affect you in any way? I play alot of games, and am a professional photographer and graphic designer. I could have done things different here and there, and over the next few months I probably will... this is just what I bought for now within a budget I gave myself for starters. I had the money to buy what I bought, so I did and over the next 6 six months I'll spend more. Also the Newegg links are misleading, as not all the parts were purchased there. I shopped for great deals and payed way less than that total.

I'm sorry that people are being negative about your build. I think it is jealousy. I got the same thing when I posted my build on here a few months ago. Don't worry about them.

Now about your build:

Looks really good. Nice stable Intel motherboard. All the parts are really nice to be honest. If it was me I'd probably change a few things but that's just my own personal preference. For example I'd probably step up to an AX series PSU from Corsair. Probably go down to the 750 Watt model though, you don't need 1050 Watts (The whole system will pull about 280 Watts from the wall when under maximum load). I'd probably go down to a 2600K as it's still very fast and can easily be overclocked to the 2700K. But depending on the price difference it might not matter.

The Bluray drive, personally I don't use Bluray drives so I'd probably not even include any optical media in the build. I've gone USB stick even for OS installs now. But again you may use Bluray and it will be useful to you I'm just giving my own thoughts and ideas.

Well not just Diablo 3 in general, but when you are a hard-core gamer nothing is ever fast enough.

Also I would have gone with the GTX 670 instead of the AMD video card. But enjoy your driver crashes :)~

The thing is though, even the most hardcore of todays games, doesn't even come close to taxing a mid end i5. As cool as it is to have an i7 and to be as fast as possible, there are better ways to spend your money, on stuff the games will actually use.

HawkMan is right. Even the top end games do not tax the latest processors even the mid-range processors. It's a similar story on the GPU front. I can still run my games maxed out on a 2 year old GTX 480.

Too many console ports combind with not enough boundary pushing PC exclusives.

While I agree with the bolded part, 32GB RAM for editing photos? Plus, he clearly mentions Diablo 3 as being a motivating factor.

You'd be surprised by how much ram photoshop can consume when you edit images, especially with complex edits or high res images

That's simply not the case. Considering my i7-2700k only cost me ?265 (it was the fastest quad core CPU on the market when I purchased it) I'd hardly call it overkill. Given how powerful this CPU is, ?265 was an extremely fair price, I wouldn't call it overkill at all.

"only" 265 GBP? You are being sarcastic right? Next year your i7 will be obliterated by the mid-range CPUs, and then you will need to spend another 265 pounds for a high end CPU again.

Well not just Diablo 3 in general, but when you are a hard-core gamer nothing is ever fast enough.

Also I would have gone with the GTX 670 instead of the AMD video card. But enjoy your driver crashes :)~

Funny that I usually buy nVidia for the same reason but I seem to have the one card that crashes like crazy with any drivers newer than 275. Google TLDR and see the problems that the 560ti's have.

FAILURE, Hardcore gamer not detected - Comment Aborted.

Except that Diablo 3 will run just as well on my Sandy Bridge Core i5 2500K. So, "FAILURE, Hardcore gamer not detected - Comment Aborted" seems to apply to you as well doesn't it?

If you don't want people criticizing / commenting your setup, don't make a post in a public forum about it.

If you don't want me challenging criticism on a post that I started on a public forum, then don't read my posts. That bull**** argument goes both ways.

Nice build, I might recommend the corsair hydro series h-60. It's a closed loop CPU cooler, liquid cooling. I had one on my core2quad and ran bitcoin on it for 2 weeks straight (100% CPU usage) and never went above 110?F

why the H-60 ?? the H80 will go into any case I think - no point in going with the 60.

"only" 265 GBP? You are being sarcastic right? Next year your i7 will be obliterated by the mid-range CPUs, and then you will need to spend another 265 pounds for a high end CPU again.

Given that the fastest quad core CPU's of the previous generations were all in excess of ?500 no I'm not being sarcastic. If you keep using that argument eventually the OP would be waiting till they're dead because new parts always outpace old parts but at some point you have to just say "I'm going to buy now". Buying high end parts still gives you more futureproofing than mid range parts.

why is it smart?

He's right to a degree, howver one you get past 15% more than you need it's just pointless and at 2 to 3 times it's just ridiculous. but having more than you need is good in balancing load and keeping up with potential spikes and crap like that.

also it dosn't hurt aything to have a bigger one, well except your wallet. a 1200W PSU doesn't use 1200W, it just "can" if needed. But it only uses as much as needed.

The whole ATi/AMD driver bagging is getting old. And its even more idiotic that it comes from NVIDIA jocks who don't even use AMD cards. I guess its the cool thing to do in 2012.

Personal experience with both lately, ATI drivers crash at least once a week, nVidia drivers crash once a quarter if that, both computers are used daily, and a lot

Glad your happy because at the end of the day that is all that matters. I'm a mac person through and through, but if a pc makes you splurge in your rice crispys, great! Tired of this pc sucks, mac sucks, linux sucks etc. It's stupid, people should buy whats important for them. If total control of your pc hardware is important then obviously pc's are the way go. ramble, ramble, ramble, blurt.

The whole ATi/AMD driver bagging is getting old. And its even more idiotic that it comes from NVIDIA jocks who don't even use AMD cards. I guess its the cool thing to do in 2012.

When you spend over 1k on a pair of 7970's and they don't work the way they should because of driver issues then the argument against AMD drivers is quite valid, especially when you previously had a pair of gtx 580's in SLI and they ran flawlessly the entire time you had them.

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