Building a new system, looking for recommendations

Joshua Neill

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I need cooling options for my new rig I am building and am wondering what the community would think is best for the below setup and or if anything outline below could be changed for better price points or advantages.

MOBO- ASUS Maximus VI Formula Socket 1150 Intel Z87 Chipset
CPU - Intel Core i5 950
GPU - Two Sapphire HD 7790
SSD - Two Samsung 840 EVO 250GB in raid 0
HDD - Four Seagate 3TB Sata 3 in Raid 1 and a single 1TB Seagate SATA 3 drive
RAM - Four Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 8GB DDR3 1866MHz
Case: Corsair Obsidian 900D
PSU: TR2 600 Watt

Right now I've been looking at something like this for cooling: http://products.ncix.com/detail/xspc-raystorm-750-ax360-water-cooling-kit-am2-am2-am3-am3-lga2011-lga1366-lga1156-lga1155-lga1150-81-89433-1198.htm
 

Francisco Costa

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First of all, your CPU and Motherboard aren't compatible, you should get this CPU instead: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80646i54670k
If I were you, I wouldn't crossfire two medium range cards, you should buy a single high end card like this: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n770tf2gd5oc
Why are you going to buy 32GB of RAM, 6TB of HDD in Raid1, 1TB of HDD and 500 of SSD in Raid0?
 

Joshua Neill

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Thank you for pointing this out, I over looked this. Pretty much need a new computer, am at 3,000 now so becoming steep. The whole reason I wanted to upgrade was because of my hard drives, however it appears it would be cheaper to just grab a USB CD drive, a SATA Dongle, and Raid Controller to do the upgrade more simply just for now. I wanted to do the whole system as my system is becoming old and I have been needing to replace a lot of things on it lately to gain the functionality I need. First the GPU which meant I needed a new PSU, and now the drives are going on it. Will see how far I can take my present system and if need be do this upgrade as I wasn't expecting to have to upgrade the CPU.
 

Joshua Neill

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Thank you for that, yeah I realize that now. As for the GPU I already have a 7790 so for me it is just a lower cost point and will give me the same functionality for the most part.

I use most of my memory up in my computer now and 32GB will give me the leniency to do whatever and however much I want on the computer without hitting performance walls. As for the hard drive space right I now use about five-six TB so isn't really an upgrade too much but need the redundancy as I have a lot of drive failures, and file corruption problems. So four 3TB drives will give me 6TB mirrored. The first 3TB raid is for my media and the other for my programs. Then the SSD is in raid 0 for performance reasons and gives the room I need for the OS to breathe. Then the spare HDD I use for virtual machines, other operating systems, VDI, etc makes life easier that being separate.