Need A new Gaming PC! Help Needed!

[ChooChooBot]

Thanks again isiolia. I ended up settling for a 700 watt. Just to be on the safe side because the site recommended it for my current build. I got another 2 questions. Is a Quad core the way to go or should I try and get a Six core? Also Is my current motherboard any good? Or does it matter what kind I get. I'm already a little over budget now... So I'm not to not spend that much more on it. The total is $1028. OS and AntiVirus included. Here is my current spec up to this post.

Configuration
CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-2500K 3.30 GHz 6M Intel Smart Cache LGA1155 (All Venom OC Certified)
HDD: 500GB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD [-21] (Single Hard Drive)
MEMORY: 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Module [+20] (Corsair or Major Brand)
MOTHERBOARD: [CrossFireX] MSI Z68A-G43 (G3) Intel Z68 ATX Mainboard w/ Lucid Virtu, Intel SRT, OC Genie II, Winki 3 & 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB3.0, SATA-III RAID, 2 Gen3 PCIe X16, 2 PCIe X1 & 3 PCI (All Venom OC Certified)
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card [+221] (Major Brand Powered by AMD)

[isiolia]

Quad core is fine. As time goes on, apps will likely become more threaded, but for the time being relatively few games are. If you wind up wanting more performance, the 2500k should overclock quite well - most will do 4-4.5Ghz. Intel's six-core chips are very expensive anyway. If you have more threaded apps, the typical bump up from the i5 2500k is the i7 2600k, which adds Hyperthreading. With it, each core can do two threads, so with some software it can act like an 8-core CPU...whether or not this is actually a performance benefit varies on the app. However, that's typically around $100 more, and for a lot of uses they're almost the same. If you're not planning on using it for heavy 3D or video rendering, it's probably not worth it.

Just from the listed specs the motherboard is fine. IMO, Z68 is the way to go, and looking at it on Newegg, that's probably about as cheap as you'll get with that chipset. Personally, I usually buy ASUS or Gigabyte, no real experience with MSI.
Newegg doesn't have much feedback on it. The only one they have is someone complaining about the lack of an overclocking feature.

[ChooChooBot]

Quad core is fine. As time goes on, apps will likely become more threaded, but for the time being relatively few games are. If you wind up wanting more performance, the 2500k should overclock quite well - most will do 4-4.5Ghz. Intel's six-core chips are very expensive anyway. If you have more threaded apps, the typical bump up from the i5 2500k is the i7 2600k, which adds Hyperthreading. With it, each core can do two threads, so with some software it can act like an 8-core CPU...whether or not this is actually a performance benefit varies on the app. However, that's typically around $100 more, and for a lot of uses they're almost the same. If you're not planning on using it for heavy 3D or video rendering, it's probably not worth it.

Just from the listed specs the motherboard is fine. IMO, Z68 is the way to go, and looking at it on Newegg, that's probably about as cheap as you'll get with that chipset. Personally, I usually buy ASUS or Gigabyte, no real experience with MSI.
Newegg doesn't have much feedback on it. The only one they have is someone complaining about the lack of an overclocking feature.

I think that covers most of my questions. I don't plan on overclocking so just a simple Quad Core is fine with me. I hate 3D it makes my eyes strained, and my House is already filled with Macs for all my video and art making needs. Thanks for the info on the motherboard. I'm probably going to make the purchase near the end of this month or the beginning of December.

[ChooChooBot]

What up fellas, Have not posted here in a little bit. I ended up picking a computer out and ordering it from CyberPower PC. Here are the Specs.

Configuration
CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-2500K 3.30 GHz 6M Intel Smart Cache LGA1155 (All Venom OC Certified)
HDD: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD [+134] (Single Drive)
MEMORY: 16GB (4GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory [+145] (Corsair Vengeance [+39])
MOTHERBOARD: [CrossFireX] MSI Z68A-G43 (G3) Intel Z68 ATX Mainboard w/ Lucid Virtu, Intel SRT, OC Genie II, Winki 3 & 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB3.0, SATA-III RAID, 2 Gen3 PCIe X16, 2 PCIe X1 & 3 PCI (All Venom OC Certified)
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card [+221] (Major Brand Powered by AMD)

Got some nice deals on Black Friday and ended up saving a couple hundred dollars on the system. Many thanks to the Community here for helping me with their awesome knowledge.

[Dude]

What up fellas, Have not posted here in a little bit. I ended up picking a computer out and ordering it from CyberPower PC. Here are the Specs.

Configuration
CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-2500K 3.30 GHz 6M Intel Smart Cache LGA1155 (All Venom OC Certified)
HDD: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD [+134] (Single Drive)
MEMORY: 16GB (4GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory [+145] (Corsair Vengeance [+39])
MOTHERBOARD: [CrossFireX] MSI Z68A-G43 (G3) Intel Z68 ATX Mainboard w/ Lucid Virtu, Intel SRT, OC Genie II, Winki 3 & 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB3.0, SATA-III RAID, 2 Gen3 PCIe X16, 2 PCIe X1 & 3 PCI (All Venom OC Certified)
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card [+221] (Major Brand Powered by AMD)

Got some nice deals on Black Friday and ended up saving a couple hundred dollars on the system. Many thanks to the Community here for helping me with their awesome knowledge.

Little over $800 then?

[ChooChooBot]

Yeah It ended up being around $1200. I ended up having a little bit of extra play money before christmas so I decided to go a little bit more expensive.

[Niode]

Yeah It ended up being around $1200. I ended up having a little bit of extra play money before christmas so I decided to go a little bit more expensive.

Wow they just put $400 on top of an $800 (in parts) PC... Great job. They really saw you coming a mile off right?