Could someone briefly review this please?

Well im not as knowledge as some of the people on this site, but I can give ya some basic information.

First off do you plan on getting a second gtx 280 ? If not intel is known to make better motherboards, and the whole ddr3 thing is well really expensive for minimal upgrades.

great cpu.

For the ram, if it were me id go with ddr2 (which would mean a ddr2 motherboard) , but if you really want ddr3 maybe get 4 gigs of something a little cheaper would probably be better performance since having really really high frequency ram isnt gonna do much for ya.

And for powersupplies thermaltake isnt known for being one of the best.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817703003

or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817139007

are imo significantly better psus.

Now im sure other people who know alot more than me could give ya better advice, but if you plan on just using one gtx 280 (aka not going sli) then youre spending alot more money than you have to for almost the same performance.

Id go with the corsair psu, both are great but the corsair is great and cheaper.

Stick with the 780i mobo and go with ddr2. This will save you some good money and you wont get penalized on performance.

Unless you dont want to overclock, I would go with the Q6600 and OC the hades out of it. You will be able to get to 3.0 ~ 3.6 gigs if you do. If you dont intend to OC and have the extra money to put into the Q9550 then have at it.

The amount of money you will spend on the hardware you have listed wont give you enough of a performance boost over what I recommended to justify it...

If you do go with the 790i then you probably don't need a sound card as the onboard is very good I couldn't tell any difference when I removed mine.

You want to eventually do tri sli with gtx 280s ?

Im guessing you have an amazing monitor ?

well, not really an amazing monitor. I just figured that in a few years when crysis 3 or something comes out I'll possibly need 3 cards to get some goog gameplay.

I have a Dell 2408WFP 24" lcd monitor that supports 1080p, so it's definitely decent, but from what I understand the newest graphics cards can already put out higher resolution than that!

My old 8600gt that I paid 25$ for could put out a higher resolution then that, its just playing games on it thats a different story.

And yeah the hard core monitors are all like 2560x1600 but they start over a grand and then you need some serious hardware to play them. Even then im sure youd have to put some settings down, and very likely could never do much with aa/antiscopic filtering

before that, i mix full lengths albums on my computer at times because i'm a dj...and i can tell you, do not use speakers when you're mixing with an audio program, headset is the only way to go.

and about the part of you tri-sli because you want to play crysis 3 at good FPS a FEW YEARS from here, the problem with that is, you are spending tons of money now for a game that will come out in a few years?

i'm pretty sure, a few years from here, a mid-range card would probably give you far better FPS than your tri-sli and probably saved you a few hundred bucks now.

just look at 2 years ago around this time, what did ATI have? the R500 series aka the X1300, X1550...etc etc , and now it has the R700 series, HD 4850/70 etc...the difference is light years in between.

and 2 years ago around this time from Nvidia, you have the G71 GPU series, which is the 7900 GT/GTO...and just one generation after that with the G80 and G92, most prominent is the 8800GTS (G92), you see a new standard bar raised so high that all the old series is obsolete.

save your money and upgrade again when the time is right instead of going tri-sli. just my opinion to try to save you money.

Thanks guys, but the 780i won't run sli in PCIe 2.0, effectively halving the bandwidth for the graphics throughput!

You wont notice the difference between pcie 1.0 and 2.0. You are spending a ton of extra money for pcie 2.0 and ddr3 that will give you the least benefit of performance for the money.

I dont recommend it unless you simply have tons of money to burn for not good reasons...