New System: $ 5000 - $ 6000

My bro is building new system and asking for expert help. Please specify Model, Brand and Price.

Approximate price: 5000$ - 6000$

System usage: Gaming, media center (connected to HDTV/speakers), internet and image designing.

RAM: DDR3 4 GB (least)

HDD: 2 TB SATA 7200 rpm

PSU: More than 1000W

Cooler: Yes

GPU: Nvidia

Overclocking/SLI: Yes/Yes

Motherboard: Nvidia

Processor: Intel

DVD: Blue ray

Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200/1080p (More than 20 INCH) with HDMI support

Speakers: Good One (but not many units)

Keyboard and Mouse: Wireless

Sound Card: Yes

Webcam: Good One

Also, any suggestions for the system would be greatly appreciated. I have no idea which hardware is good.

is this a joke? anybody ready to drop 6k on a system should already know what they want.

i dont even know what you;d build for 6k....nothing that you need. you can max out games on about a 3k build.

For that price, you can get these...
2x 30" Dell
i7 975
EVGA Classified
DDR3 2000MHz RAM,
2x intel 80GB SSD in RAID 0
2 or 3 1TB drives,
BD Burner,
2x GTX 295 Quad-SLI
1200W PSU...
So with this config, you can touch the 6k Mark...
Ohh boy...

Do not know where you get your information from, but the Core i7 X58 motherboards can do either SLi or Crossfire.

Now back to the OP, will break down the costs below.

CPU Core i7's
920 @ 2.66GHz > $279.99
950 @ 3.06GHz > $569.99
965 @ 3.2GHz > $999.99
975 @ 3.33GHz > $1,024.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] LGA%201366

Since we want to SLi and OC, here are a Few that I would look into below.

X58 Motherboards'
ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer $449.99 *
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131390

EVGA E760 CLASSIFIED "Overclocker's Pick" 3-Way SLI $419.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813188048

Would suggest on 2 kits of below Ram

Ram
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) $179.00 *
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820145224

Ram with Fans
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) $209.00 *
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820145232

CORSAIR DOMINATOR-GT 6GB (3 x 2GB) $289.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820145240

G.SKILL Perfect Storm 6GB (3 x 2GB) $259.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231258

There will be some new nVidia Cards coming out near the end of June & July, but below is some I would look into.

Graphic Cards
EVGA 01G-P3-1180-AR GeForce GTX 285 $344.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130480

EVGA 017-P3-1295-AR CO-OP Edition GeForce GTX 295 $529.99 * (This is one of the new cards and it is already SLi)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130504

There are 2 more I would like to mention but they have not been released yet. Asus is coming out with them. The GTX 285 Matrix and the GTX 295 Mars (which there will be only 1000 made and it had 4gb ram 1024-bit), they should be out near the end of July.

HDD's
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB $99.99 *
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136284

You might want to look into an SSD HDD to use for OS drive.

OCZ Summit OCZSSD2-1SUM120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD) $389.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227450

PSU Modular
ENERMAX REVOLUTION85+ ERV1050EWT 1050W $315.99 *
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817194039

CORSAIR CMPSU-1000HX 1000W $239.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817139007

PSU Non-Modular
PC Power & Cooling T12W 1200W $519.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817703012

Sound Cards
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional $139.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6829102019

AuzenTech AZT-FORTE X-Fi Forte 7.1 Low Profile PCI Express Sound Card $139.99 *
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6829156010

Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater HD (upcoming release)
http://www.auzentech.com/site/prod [...] ter_hd.php

Sound Cards with Front Docking Port
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series $199.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6829102021

Blu-Ray Drive
PLEXTOR Black 6X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA Internal Blu-Ray DVD Combo Super Multi Drive $144.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6827249039

PLEXTOR Black 6X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM USB External BD Combo Super Multi Drive $159.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6827249040

Blu-Ray Burners
Pioneer Black 8X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 5X DVD-RAM 8X BD-ROM 4MB Cache $208.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6827129037

Monitors'
ASUS MK241H Black 24" 2ms HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor with 1.3M Pixel Webcam $279.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6824236033

ASUS VW266H Black 25.5" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor $329.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6824236047

DELL ULTRASHARP 2408WFP $599 (IPS Panel) *
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna [...] u=320-6272

Dell UltraSharp 2709W 27-inch WideScreen $689 (IPS Panel) *
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna [...] u=223-9379

The above Dell montiors use the best LCD Panels for viewing angles (great for watching HD Movies on).

I am not into Speakers, WebCams or Wireless Keyboards/Mouses, so some one else will have to help you out there.

Would suggest you get the Release Candiate of Windows 7 64-bit OS, you can use it free until around March of 2010, otherwise if you can not wait I would suggest the below OS, mainly it will allow you to use more then 4gb of ram.

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit for System Builders $99.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6832116488

Aslo this denotes * parts I would seriously look at or buy if it was my build.

Good Luck on your upcoming Build.

Check again on your News Flash, this is from Asus website.

Chipset Intel® X58 + ICH10R
Nvidia NF200*2

http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx? [...] odelmenu=2

More Reading:

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15405

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2 [...] index.html

http://www.nvnews.net/articles/sli [...] ndex.shtml

http://www.hardocp.com/article.htm [...] RodXNpYXN0

@Yoosty the X58 boards are not Nvidia products...
Only the NF200 chipset on those X58 mobos are from Nvidia that offer additional X16 bandwidth for the PCIe slots...
And the main North-Bridge X58 chipset and South- Bridge chipsets are from intel
So the mobo manufacturers incorporate these chipsets onto these boards to offer more features...

Check this article from TOMs...you would get a better idea...
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2332.html

Will someone take the time to do all the research and and all the work for me and pick out all the parts for me, I only have $22,557 to spend. My budget is quite strict, absolutley cannot go over it no matter what.

And yeah guys, the new Intel chipsets for the i7 do support SLI through a license agreement with nVidia, which is pretty cool if you are an SLI fan.
I have read that SLI scales quite well on the i7 platform, for whatever that is worth to you SLI guys.
Now, you have to be careful when you buy, only certain boards have the support for SLI enabled....you know, the ones that are the most expensive.

Well, I would tell him to save his money.

Go with a Core i7 920 D0 Stepping, 2 GTX 295 (I think 2 GTX 275 are good enough), 6GB 2000 mHz RAM (or 12 GB, but it doesn't seem very usefull for what you want to do ---->http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-module-upgrade,2264-6.html), I good mobo (Rampage II, Gigabyte Extreme or EVGA or what you want). 2x 1tb hard drives in raid 0.

Get a good PSU and a good liquid cooler to OC the CPU and GPU. You can probably get all this for about 3k, Save the rest. Your going to get great performance for half the price.

Mc_coy.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/foru [...] _13_0.html