ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: I'm currently building an extreme gaming rig. I have never built a computer before and using some research am trying to build a dominate gaming rig that will last for a long time. I do not know that much about building them either so any feedback will be much appreciated. And I mean anything.
Also, I think in some cases you are just throwing money at a part rather than choosing what is actually best. However, let's establish a few things first. See the link.
Overall your choices on parts are good, but here are some places you might like to consider:
Instead of Vista Ultimate I'd go with Vista Home Premium just to save some $, unless you plan to use all of Ultimate's futures.
seeing as how you have a rather large budget and are planning on using a gtx295, id get a larger screen. atleast a 30" or minimum a 24" for that beefy card.
PSU is good if you plan on getting another 295 however, it seems to be massive overkill on that small 22" screen.
+1 to the caviar black, its a good drive. if you want you can get 2 and run windows + games on one and use the second as storage.
regarding the SSD it wont really give you any increased performance (in gaming) over a regular magnetic hard drive so save some money there.
alot of people here would recommend the ASUS P6T Deluxe V2, its a good mobo and is alot cheaper than the EVGA Classified.
for a heat sink the XIGMATEK Dark Knight is good, a popular choice around these parts [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233029][/url]
or check out others here
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Message edited by paperfox on 04-28-2009 at 01:42:41 AM
Since this is not a build happening soon, I'll respond with some general comments.
SSD is not QUITE ready for prime time, but it is getting close. Before the end of the summer I would think, much like Blu-ray burners. Then it might be nice for an operating system, although I would put the virtual memory on a conventional drive with other apps.
GTX 295 is massive overkill for a 22" monitor. Something like 4870s in crossfire or GTX 260s in SLI will be more than enough at even the 1900x1200 of a 24". In my guide, linked in my sig, you'll find a link from the monitor section to a really fine monitor guide.
However, if you have to have "the best" then SLI two GTX 285s. You won't have any real performance gain (that you can detect without software to measure it) but you'll have bragging rights.
If you really want an extreme rig, you'll need to learn about water cooling. You'll find a link for that in my guide as well.
This would be something ii would do up for peeps for 22" 1650 x 1050 gaming but u stated $$ no issue Look at the GPU charts carefully and analyze the CPU gaming charts for 1650 x 1050 high/AA+AF + understanding that the human eye cannot detect more than 50-60 FPS in games do u think a $3k config will give you 3-4 times more frames on 1650 x 1050 enthusiast settings? Some serious research to be done on your part me thinks hehe
Message edited by batuchka on 04-28-2009 at 01:59:48 PM
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