New PC Build

[garbanian]

Here is what I'm planning.
So far I like a lot.

Suggestions on anything.

Oh yea. This is about as overboard as I want to go on a PC right now though.
A little price increase is whatever, but hundreds more. NAHBRO.



I'll be purchasing in about 2 weeks or so.

[SnOwBunZz]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...k,2833-12.html

Ditch AMD, get Intel.

Ninjaedit: get 6gbs of ram, 16gbs is overkill and will hit your FPS.
Get a bigger HDD with the money saved on the unneeded ram.

[garbanian]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...k,2833-12.html

Ditch AMD, get Intel.

Ninjaedit: get 6gbs of ram, 16gbs is overkill and will hit your FPS.
Get a bigger HDD with the money saved on the unneeded ram.

I've never had a good experience with any Intel based systems. That's why I chose to get AMD again.

I enjoy overkill.
I'm getting 2 500 gigs, I have yet to fill my 1 500 gig as of now.

Edit: Decent Intel one?

[SnOwBunZz]

Didn't notice the 2 next to your HDD selection. ><

As for the CFing the 6870s (coincidentally found after you pointed out the 2hdds), I've heard CF is pretty useless/not supported in alot of games. (mainly due to viiral nerdraging and darksin backing him up)
You might want to reconsider a single 6870 or 6970. A single 6970 is cheaper than 2 6870s either way.

General rule of thumb is that a single card is better anyways.

Other than this everything seems fine.

[garbanian]

Didn't notice the 2 next to your HDD selection. ><

As for the CFing the 6870s (coincidentally found after you pointed out the 2hdds), I've heard CF is pretty useless/not supported in alot of games. (mainly due to viiral nerdraging and darksin backing him up)
You might want to reconsider a single 6870 or 6970. A single 6970 is cheaper than 2 6870s either way.

General rule of thumb is that a single card is better anyways.

Other than this everything seems fine.

Why not give me some recommendations on video cards as well then?
I have no nvidia/ati preference.

[SnOwBunZz]

Why not give me some recommendations on video cards as well then?
I have no nvidia/ati preference.

You might want to reconsider a single 6870 or 6970. A single 6970 is cheaper than 2 6870s either way.

Yay for me making a bad sentence again (I notice I do that alot lately :/).
edit: I'm confused whether it's a right or wrong grammatical sentence now. lol

Since nvidia/ati isn't a preference, go with the gtx580. It's faster than the hd6970.
(or pick the hd5970, but I doubt much people are willing to spend 700usd minimum on a gpu alone)

[IronyTaken]

Yay for me making a bad sentence again (I notice I do that alot lately :/).
edit: I'm confused whether it's a right or wrong grammatical sentence now. lol

Since nvidia/ati isn't a preference, go with the gtx580. It's faster than the hd6970.
(or pick the hd5970, but I doubt much people are willing to spend 700usd minimum on a gpu alone)

I would stay away from the 5970 it has had a lot of performance issues in games.

I would also go for an intel i5 2500k or i7 2600k CPU.

[tiger1526]

i would drop the 2 graphics cards and get a GTX 580, and a i5 2500k

the evga version comes with just cause 2 and mafia 2 right now as well.

edit just noticed you already changed out the AMD chip

edit: actually scratch that, triple channel is like a .1 increase on most charts, stick with what you have.

[ZelkovaMoon]

Cheap 2TB HDD for under 100$, cheaper than those two 500GBs you have set aside for over 100$. (If you are going for size)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148413

If you are going for a good RPM:SIZE ratio I say go for these, 1.5TB with 7200 RPM. Both are the same price, your call
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148337

If you plan on heavily overclocking and don't want to be bottlenecked by your read:write speeds on a standard hard drive, I suggest you invest in a SSD, and use it only for boot and high end games, and have a secondary drive for
data storage

[garbanian]

Cheap 2TB HDD for under 100$, cheaper than those two 500GBs you have set aside for over 100$. (If you are going for size)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148413

If you are going for a good RPM:SIZE ratio I say go for these, 1.5TB with 7200 RPM. Both are the same price, your call
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148337

If you plan on heavily overclocking and don't want to be bottlenecked by your read:write speeds on a standard hard drive, I suggest you invest in a SSD, and use it only for boot and high end games, and have a secondary drive for
data storage

Why did I not even think of an SSD.


About the vid card I did originally have the 580 picked out but I read a few things and stuff and it changed my mind. Looked around again and I'm more than fine with a 580 so I've added that in.

The CPU, I checked out some scores with the SandyBridge intel one that I have, and that's the so called chart topper of the month, so I'll be sticking with that.

Hard Drive - No doubt I'm going for an SSD and a terrabyte normal HD.

Ram - Anyone have an suggestions on a better thing of ram?

New build -

[MrTingTing]

the timings are great.

you could get away much cheaper if you'd change the gfx card. a 580 is nice but in no way needed.

a zotac GTX 470 AMP! edition for example isn't much slower than a 580 but only around 300usd.
the saved 200 usd could get you a new monitor for example =p

[garbanian]

the timings are great.

you could get away much cheaper if you'd change the gfx card. a 580 is nice but in no way needed.

a zotac GTX 470 AMP! edition for example isn't much slower than a 580 but only around 300usd.
the saved 200 usd could get you a new monitor for example =p

I'm perfectly okay with my current monitor though.
23" is in no way too small, or too large for my needs.

I read about the 470/580 debate on a tomshardware and on a ZAM thread and they are similiar in the end, the 470 overclocked is about the same as stock 580, but it won't be the same.

A 580 may not be needed NOW, but in the future it could be. Mind you, this will be the last time I build a computer for about 4 or 5 years so it has to have something that will last the entire time, and I feel the 580 will be playing on medium around then which is fine with me.

I can justify that graphics cards cost anyways.
I'm selling my old computer and it will be enough for the gfx card and the ram, so I'll only be paying about 1k out of pocket.

I do appreciate you looking out for me though.

[MrTingTing]

If you're fine with the costs, go for the build then.
I don't think there's anything to change anymore :3

[tiger1526]

yep, 580 is probably the best card you can currently get for future proofing as it handles dx11 the best. the only thing better you can get is a 5970 but i highly highly doubt you want to spend 700$ on a graphics card.

as for the ram, its fine gskill is my favorite company to buy ram from, never had any problems with them.

[IronyTaken]

A word of advice since you are using an i7 2600k you should get RAM that is 1.5v.

It is said that the new Sandy Bridge CPUs are designed for 1.5v RAM and if it is higher that it could damage the memory controller.

People have tried higher voltage RAM and they seem to have a stable system but they could run into future problems.

So to be safe make sure your RAM is 1.5v.

[garbanian]

A word of advice since you are using an i7 2600k you should get RAM that is 1.5v.

It is said that the new Sandy Bridge CPUs are designed for 1.5v RAM and if it is higher that it could damage the memory controller.

People have tried higher voltage RAM and they seem to have a stable system but they could run into future problems.

So to be safe make sure your RAM is 1.5v.

Thank you Sir.
Checked the ram I had in cart, it is 1.5v.