High End Gaming Machine.

[sticks51412]

Hey I was thinking about building a new system mine is over 5 years old. If I do built I want the best system I can get. This is what I was looking at. I am normally an AMD guy but was thinking Intel this time. Open to suggestions

Case: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8003BWS Black Full Tower Case w/ 25CM Fan - Retail

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM X4

Primary/gaming HDD: WD Velociraptor 300 gig hdd x 2

Video: EVGA 01G-P3-N897-AR GeForce 9800 GX2 SSC 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail x2

Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card (Black/Silver) (Eng) - Retail

Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower W0133RU ATX12V / EPS12V 1200W Power Supply - Retail

Memory: OCZ Reaper HPC 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ3RPR13332GK - Retail

MB: ASUS Striker II Extreme LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI DDR3 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Yorkfield 3.0GHz LGA 775 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569QX9650 - Retail

Right now build cost is around 5K.

 

[antas]

Wow, extreme ...

Get 4GB RAM instead of 2GB. You're spending a lot of money for the latest peripherals, so spend a little bit more and get 2x2GB RAM. 2GB nowadays is just on the edge, it's still adequate but soon we will need more ..

 

[sticks51412]

I knew I forgot something there would be 2 of those ram
Also I know I need a heatsink I just don't know which one I would get. I really wanna stick with AMD but can't find a board I really like. Maybe I should wait for AMD to get it back together

 

[husky mctarflash]

May want to consider the WD 6400 AAKS 640 GB HD. Other than the new Raptor, is considered one of the all around fastest drives available. It is getting some serious press.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14380/15 "...perhaps the most capable 3.5" hard drive we've ever tested."

I am going to snag one soon. The Egg has them down barely over $100: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136218

What are you doing for a monitor?