Well first of all thanks for the replies Assassinator and boogschd! :D

(12/02/2013 08:36 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  Looks fine.

2 suggestions:

• 500GB HDDs these days are very bad value for money, the sweet point is 2TB and 3TB.  I recommend you get at least 1TB, costs like $10-15 more for double the amount of space.
  
  
• On a tight budget, I would recommend getting a cheaper PSU.  The reasoning behind it is that if you put more money into the CPU or GPU it increases performance, while putting lots of money is the PSU doesn't really do much.  So get an entry level from a known company (eg: Coolermaster Xtreme, Thermaltake Lite Power, Antec VP <- this is the one I got and is also 80+), don't get the super cheap ones that are 700W for $20 or something, those aren't safe and might explode.
  

(12/02/2013 06:42 AM)SkyDX Wrote:  I wanted to ask if a i5 3330 + a GeForce GTX 660 or a Phenom II 955 + a GeForce 660 Ti would net him better performance on the long run.

i5 + GTX660.  A 3GHz i5 is way faster than a 3.2GHz PII.  I don't mean a little bit I mean like 50% faster or something.  Not really a fair comparison though considering the i5 costs twice as much as the PII.

Oh yeah see if you can get a Radeon 7870 at the price of the GTX660.  Over here they are priced similarly, and the 7870 is a little bit faster.

Well the thing is I was already very tight on the budget so I asked my friend where wee could take some shortcuts and the HDD was the first thing wee agreed on sizing done, I'm aware that was a bad choice but wee hardly had any wiggle-room there >.<

And yeah you are very right on the PSU, that's why I opted for a 500w Corsair PSU in the end for 49€ which seemed like a good deal^^

(12/02/2013 09:54 AM)boogschd Wrote:  im an nvidia guy but i read everywhere that the 7XXX series cards do perform well for less  (i forgot which cards in particular though xD)
so yeah, i5+7870 would be a better option, put the money saved to more storage :)

phenom II is old, id probably just get an FX4300 or something if it were me

And ugh I wish I would have read this about the 7xxx series sooner as I already placed the order with the 660 and it would be a major hassle to undo that now >.< I will keep this in mind when I upgrade next year though and I had a feeling I would regret using nVidia as I'm more of a AMD person and then I saw the benchmarks being so close together... Oh well what is done is done, thanks for the help again^^