I7 920 based Game System running windows 7

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE:

This Month depending on deal and rebates

BUDGET RANGE:

$1000

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT:

Gaming

PARTS NOT REQUIRED:

keyboard, mouse, OS

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS:

Any depending on deals

PARTS PREFERENCES: by brand or type

Asus, Intel i7 1366, 6gig ram

OVERCLOCKING:

Yes , SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Maybe

MONITOR RESOLUTION:

1280×1024 will need a new monitor I guess at some stage maybe not in this build will look to purchase when a good deal comes up

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:

Trying to keep this thing quite hence the case and power supply

Currenty looking at

Antec CP-850 850W Continuous Power CP

Antec P183 Black Aluminum


Purchased a i7 920 do rev b at the weekend

Need to work out memory,graphic card,motherboard, maybe cooling.

So it's 1000 without the CPU? that should be possible.

This ASRock board comes with extra wide PCI-E spacing, for that future second video card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product
Not normally my first choice in brand, but the price and feature set make this one too good to pass up.

For excellent air cooling at very quiet levels, I doubt you can do better than this Noctua:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product

Memory... 1.65V, 1600Mhz or better, CL7:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product

Finding a 5850 is hard, but that's what you want...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product

The CP-850 is an excellent PSU. I think he didn't look at your price and figured the 750 would be less.

As I said I don't normally recommend ASRock, but I thought it fit your budget and needs more. ASRock boards in general have reviewed well recently. They tend to perform well, and the only question mark is usually longevity. I did a survey recently and was surprised by the number of responders that had used an ASRock board continuously for 4 or more years with no problems, so maybe I have been too hard on them in the past.

5850s come up on newegg almost daily, but the supply is just a trickle and they go fast. Just keep checking and snap one up when you see it. Performance is better than a 4890, you get DX11, and eyefinity.

Thanks guys for all your comments its helping me out heaps, will do some digging and see what the best price I can get the ram for as it looks like in the last few months the price went pretty high for ddr3. I can see its the same for 5850 when things are in short supply it allows people to hike up the price and also create more hype.

Picked up the case this weekend as well at a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS for $60 will use this for storage.

Still to buy

Motherboard
Memory
Graphics Card
Case fan
CPU cooler

I was maybe looking to do a raid 0 boot/system drive if so what size disks and any recommendations. Raptors and SSD are too $$$ so will have to stick with STATA.

Ideas ?

The Caviar Black on newegg was reported by WD as not supported in raid.

What's a good SSD priced at these days or model I through the cheaper SSD where the older slower kind.

Quote from WD

"The WD Caviar Black SATA drive is not a RAID edition drive. When creating a RAID, we recommend that you use our RAID edition drives. We cannot guarantee RAID functionality of our desktop drives for reasons listed in the article below.

Title: What is the difference between Desktop edition and RAID (Enterprise) edition hard drives?
URL: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wd [...] 1131638613 "


User Quote

Pros: Confirmed you Can NOT use in RAID Anymore! TLER Utility is disabled on on the newer versions of these drives (the ones newegg is selling now)
Cons: I have 4 other WD black 1TB drives in a RAID 5 array... no problems at all in nearly 1 year. TLER and RAID 5 works fine on them under heavy load.
Other Thoughts: The drive i just bought DOES NOT work with TLER and therefore can not be used with RAID. You need to pay WD extra $70 for their "Raid Edition" marketing scheme.

Don't be fooled like i did... This was a real garbage move by WD.... I'm thinking about changing drive manufacturer preferences!

Thanks again for the helpfull hints :-) I had seen others saying some thign along the lines of Raid 0 supported but if you wanted to move up to raid 5 or 10 for safer data security then this was not the drive.

I saw the talk about the new Trim function in win7/2008 not being supported but I am sure a firmware update to the drive might fix that in later months.

The drive looks great but might be out of my price range :-( Next year I am sure SSD will drop and then it might be the time to move over.

Since you are overclocking I think it comes down to two choices.

The G.skill kit has very low voltage for 1600Mhx CL9, so possibly you'll be able to squeeze lower timings out of it with more voltage.

The 1600Mhz CL8 kit from Corsair is a pretty good deal though. And you are guaranteed the better timings.