Replacement PC for old one from 2007

[IceBlink]

Hi, this is the current gaming PC build I'm vaguely planning. Bear in mind the PC this is replacing is one from December 2007, haha. That had a few upgrades like new PSU, more RAM, new graphics card (geforce 460GTX), new hard drive... it's got to the point where I might as well just get a new one completely.

Case
InWIN WHITE DRAGON RIDER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3820 (3.6GHz) 10MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® P9X79: INTEL® SOCKET LG2011
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 660 Ti - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
240GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£69)
Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO II C240 DUAL RAD LIQUID CPU COOLER (Special Offer) (£59)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
4 PORT USB 2.0 INTERNAL PCI CARD + STANDARD USB PORTS
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (£109)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days
Miscellaneous
FREE BORDERLANDS 2 GAME with NVIDIA GTX 660Ti/GTX 670/GTX 680!
Quantity
1

Price: £1,337.00 including VAT and delivery.

I'm not up to date with new graphics cards or motherboards, and I've been meaning to give the SSD a try anyway, since steam is finally starting to support having games located on other drives than the one it's installed on. Would this be sufficient or is there any glaring errors or improvements anyone could give out?

Other stuff to mention - my old monitor still works, so I plan to continue on using that (1680x1050) and maybe get replacement later. I don't have any particular need to go dual screen, so one is fine for me.

 

[NMEBowen]

Any particular reason for a socket 2011 board as a 1155 will be most likely more suited to your needs this will also be cheaper allowing a larger budget for your gpu.
Also why do you need the usb pci card as most modern motherboards are littered with usb ports i have 10 usb 2.0 and 2 usb 3.0 on mine, double what i really need.
Other than those points it looks a well balenced spec.

 

[Bvenged]

Other than the pointless USB card, it's good. Really good. Even a little overkill on the CPU side of things.

Don't know why your'e laughing at your "old" 2007 machine; this very computer I'm typing on is a 2004 Packard Bell iMedia with XP 32bit, a 2.6 GHz pentium 4 processor, 2Gb's RAM and an incredibly high-tech ATI Radeon x1330/1550 128MB AGP card. It's my gaming rig. I'm on this site look at other people's specs and I'm nearly done saving up to buy my own new PC.

 

[IceBlink]

Any particular reason for a socket 2011 board as a 1155 will be most likely more suited to your needs this will also be cheaper allowing a larger budget for your gpu.
Also why do you need the usb pci card as most modern motherboards are littered with usb ports i have 10 usb 2.0 and 2 usb 3.0 on mine, double what i really need.
Other than those points it looks a well balenced spec.

Well, that's the cheapest motherboard option available to me, haha. I'm working off one of the 'build' models. I took off the USB card, but I do use the front ones often on my old PC. I'm leaning towards the Geforce GTX 670 as well, but I don't know the differences between the one from initial post and this one.

 

[NMEBowen]

try playing about with this: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-ivy-bridge-pc/v0s8wv7mcd/

 

[keynes]

Well, that's the cheapest motherboard option available to me, haha. I'm working off one of the 'build' models. I took off the USB card, but I do use the front ones often on my old PC. I'm leaning towards the Geforce GTX 670 as well, but I don't know the differences between the one from initial post and this one.

The gtx 670 outperforms the gtx 660 ti, for your budget I'd consider the i5-3570 (just for gaming?) + gtx 670 with a SLI capable motherboard.