So here's the deal, beginning of the summer I'm going to start ordering parts in to build myself a new computer (God damn ancient macbook is a pile of shit.) I've been looking at parts and doing my thing for the past month and a half, and plan to keep doing this until the summer.
I wanted to get a few questions answered, first. Here's my first:
1) Between now and, let's say, the end of summer 2013, will there be any new major releases that will reduce the price of current big items (such as an AMD radeon 7970, 7950; a NVIDIA GTX 680, 670; or the fx-8350)?
Now, saying that, let's say I wanted to build a PC right now with a budget of $1200-$1300, hypothetically using pcpartpicker, what would be the best:
2) CPU cooler (for AMD fx-8350)
3) Best Motherboard (again, fx-8350)
4) Best Memory (preferably 1600+)
5) Best Video Card (I'd like to be able to get a 7950 at least, not sure if that's realistic, though.)
6) Best Power Supply (I'd like to keep it somewhere between 600-800 watts so I can possibly run SLI in the future, but I'm debating on whether or not it would be more realistic to sell + buy a newer single graphics card at the time)
Keep in mind, though, when I say "Best", I mean in terms of value and being realistic (which means, no, I do not need gold certified PSU :P)
Now, saying that, I'm mostly looking for advice in terms of a CPU cooler, PSU, Memory, and a Video Card. I've debated whether or not to go with an SSD, and to be honest, I'm not really going to need it since I won't be doing much editing.
Here's the pcpartpicker I've come up with (I haven't included Cooler or video card as of yet, though.) http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Mx9A
Thanks for your guys' help, by the way, I love having the ability to actually ask well-informed people information like this :)