Another noob looking for gaming PC advice

[Katsumoto]

Alright, so I recently acquired a fair amount of money and the future is looking bright in regards to job prospects so I thought this would be a good time for me to purchase a beast of a computer. I don't particularly want to spend more than £650 since I'm probably going to buy a monitor too but I don't mind spending more if it's a good deal for the hardware provided. I've been looking at this one:

http://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/Mass-E...50-94p1369.htm

With several customisations, such as 8GB RAM, an extra hard-drive and a GTX 560 instead of the 550. What do you guys think? Can you suggest any improvements? I don't know much about CPUs so I'm thinking the i5, am I right? Any help would be much appreciated.

[Crazyeyesreaper]

powersupply is garbage, P8H61 is a really really low end motherboard, otherwise a 560 isnt bad but wait a bit longer Nvidia looks to be FINALLY releasing there GTX 600 series GPUs,

GTX 670 is the same size as a GTX 550 but has the same performance as the GTX 580 660 should be around GTX 560ti performance if not GTX 570 for a good price and much lower power consumption,

prebuilts arent bad but you might get better value building it yourself.

[Alkaline Earth]

You can probably get about 30% more performance if you build it yourself while spending the same amount of money. I think that if you don't have enough time in your schedule to learn how to build one yourself then that would be an okay choice.

If you have a television a cheaper solution than buying a monitor is to buy an s-video cable and just hook your computer up to your television. I know a friend who does that, you won't be sacrificing much unless you enjoy watching television while doing other things.

[Blau&Gruen]

Building your own rig is fun.

How much do you want to spent?

Do you want one with Sandy Bridge or one with Ivy Bridge as CPU?