Build final specs. should i change anything?

pcgamer719

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i use this computer for gaming and corel draw 6x. Asus saber tooth motherboard, 2x evga gtx680 sli, two 27inch samsung ips monitors, 32 gb corsair dominator 2400, sound blaster sound card, 2x intel 512 gb ssd drives running at raid 0 for my boot drive 3x 2tb western digital black drives for storage, asus DVD drive, asus bluray drive, sound blaster sound card controller, evga 1500 watt power supply, intel core i7 3770k overclocked at 4.8 ghz, corsair h100i water cooler, corsair link and cooler master storm stryker case, steelseries wow mouse, razer anansi keyboard, xbox controller.
 
drop the 680s in SLi... for the same price you can get 2 770s in SLi... they're the same basic card only a little faster.

I would really look into the 4gb versions of those cards. as bf4 is proving 2gb isn't enough if you're planning on playing at high resolutions for modern games. i'd hate to see you spend all that bling and then be vram bottlenecked.

Which brings me to my next point. You can get a r9-290 for about the same price you can get either a 680 or 770 with 4 gb of vram... and the r9-290 is about 30% faster then either of them and has 4gb of vram. I would look at that solution long and hard before making my purchase. (BTW: looking at your 32gb of system ram and the 2 nvidia gpus in SLi i assume you're planning on doing video encoding. If that's the case you will know that CUDA produces some pretty low quality video and shouldn't be a consideration in your gpu purchase... all that cpu power and all that ram makes me hopeful you plan to use a cpu encoder, not cuda...)

you don't need ddr3 2400 corsair dominators... and you certainly don't need 32gb of system ram. Ivybridge basically caps out in gains at 1600... the igpu will perform a little better with faster ram... the cpu will not. i'd cut that ram in half... frankly i can't imagine why you'd need more then 8gb of ram, but i'll just assume you're planning on video encoding and say get 16gb of vram. 32 isn't needed unless you're doing something seriously industrial.

you don't need corsair link... the h100i will plug into the mb just fine, corsair link is more for older corsair water coolers and their lighting systems.... the h100i/h80i cuts out the need for it.

which sound blaster are you getting? generally the ASUS xonar cards are superior to most of what soundblaster makes.

You really don't want to RAID 0 ssds... they're already faster then your cpu can handle... you'll see almost no advantage to it.

planning an overclock is futile... there is luck and lots of other things that come into play first.

The Sabertooth is a cool board, but the reality is it's not a great Intel motherboard (it's a fantastic AMD board though)... you'd be better getting Asus P8Z77-V PRO; its the same board without the useless thermal armor. If you want a step up get a Maximus V Formula.