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[pivotax]

Hi guys, im building a new pc. And my budget isapprox between 1500$ to 2300$ Honestly doesnt matter what price but peferrebly not more than 2150$ (id like some change)



My Configuration:

Case: Corsair Obsidian 800D

CPU: Intel i7 930

Cooling Fan: COOLIT Vantage Water Cooler

Motherboard: Asus Rampage III Extreme x58 Chipset

Internal Expansion: Asus U3S6 Storage USB 3.0

Memory: Kingston 8GB (2x4GB) DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400

GPU: GTX 480 eVGA

Power Supply: THERMALTAKE W0171 1500W TOUGHPOWER CABLE MANAGEMENT

Hard Drive: 2TB Western Digital 3.5 SATA Hard Drive

Boot Drive: 128GB Kingston SSD

Optical Drive: 24x Double layer DVD RW Super Allwrite

Sound Card: Creative Labs X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series

PLANNING ON OVERCLOCKING ALLOT!

Expected Performance:
MAX Settings on all of theese games (expecting ATLEAST 25fps)

Crysis
GTA IV
MW2
BFBC2
MafiaII

BTW Screen: 24" LG Full HD

 

[Juanchioo]

lol its almost impssible to max crysis.... i dont think that u need that system... u can max with this:

phenom ii x4 955

m4a89gtd pro/usb3

4gb ddr3 1600mhz cl7

samsung spinpoint f3 1tb

xfx black edition 850w

noctua nh-d14

case... ur choise... but thatone has vry bad cooling.. its made to make full watercooling...
tel me wath things u want on a case and i can recomend u someones...

soundcard... (if u really think u will notice the diference... its better to spend the moeny on a good pair of headphones) asus xonar dx

pd: u will be able to play crysis but in some parts the fps will be lower than 25(in dificult parts)

 

[jasonw223]

Go for two GTX 460s in SLI, and a 6gb DDR3 triple channel RAM kit. DDR2 is not what you want. And honestly, that motherboard is overkill. Look at the Gigabyte X58A-UD3R. Those Rampage boards are not for someone who specs DDR2 in their X58 build... trust me.

 

[Juanchioo]

lol.... but he can max that games wit a much cheaper build.... i think over $2000 is for enthusiast

 

[Juanchioo]

(for gaming lol)

 

[pivotax]

lol its almost impssible to max crysis.... i dont think that u need that system... u can max with this:

phenom ii x4 955

m4a89gtd pro/usb3

4gb ddr3 1600mhz cl7

samsung spinpoint f3 1tb

xfx black edition 850w

noctua nh-d14

case... ur choise... but thatone has vry bad cooling.. its made to make full watercooling...
tel me wath things u want on a case and i can recomend u someones...

soundcard... (if u really think u will notice the diference... its better to spend the moeny on a good pair of headphones) asus xonar dx

pd: u will be able to play crysis but in some parts the fps will be lower than 25(in dificult parts)

I got the case cause of watercooling
BTW i wrote some wrong parts the ram is ddr3 btw AND OFC i will upgrade specs
GPU: 480 GTX eVGA (Later i will add on another one)
RAM: 3x4gb DDR3 (Going to upgrade to 24gb 6x4gb)

 

[pivotax]

Also i am not only a gamer, i made 3D intros for companies

ALL THEESE PROGRAMS ARE NORMALLY RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME:
Adobe After Effects CS5 (Rendering)
Adobe AFter Effects CS5 (Editing)
Sony Vegas 8.0 (Rendering)
3Ds Max (Rendering and Editing)
GTA IV/Mafia II and Grid

 

[obsidian86]

max crysis hey hmmm

haf x

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 2 off

MSI N470GTX-M2D12-B GeForce GTX 470 2 off

ABS SL series SL1050 1050W

Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model 998832

ASUS Rampage III Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950

CORSAIR Hydro H70 CWCH70 120mm High Performance CPU Cooler

Corsair Nova Series CSSD-V128GB2-BRKT 2.5" 128GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Subtotal: $2,330.89

the nvidia cards run hot you dont need the 800d unless you gonna go full water

sli 470's and enough power to add a third

the coolit systems lagging a bit behind the new corsair

faster ram

 

[Mr Pizza]

Really H70? Custom water is the way to go!

 

[Mr Pizza]

The vantage? Really? The rest of your stuff is gonna be red hot.. get some custom water or a good case.

 

[pivotax]

The vantage? Really? The rest of your stuff is gonna be red hot.. get some custom water or a good case.

Ok the reason is that i considered the h70 is becouse i am not experienced with Water Cooling, so if i have to make a custom one, forget it.. Never made my one WC system
Unless you could reccomend me the BEST Coolers for the gpu, Cpu, ram...... i have no idea
Please tell me the Coolers i should have in this case (Price doesnt matter)

 

[obsidian86]

well a good beginners water cooling would be one of swiftechs pre made kits other then that its a huge amount of research but its worth it to get the best of the best

 

[pivotax]

well a good beginners water cooling would be one of swiftechs pre made kits other then that its a huge amount of research but its worth it to get the best of the best

Ok choosen the H2O-220 Ultima But now its about 50 dollars over my budget, so i am thinking of buying this powersupple instead:
Chieftec Super Series CFT-1200G-DF 1200Watt
Is this PSU any good?

 

[obsidian86]

chieftec is a mixed bag of thing some good some bad but do you really need 1.2kw?

 

[pivotax]

chieftec is a mixed bag of thing some good some bad but do you really need 1.2kw?

No but in the future i will have to upgrade to a higher watt psu.
All i really want to know is if it will last me for 2 years cause by then i will prob change lots of parts.

 

[obsidian86]

well the trend is toward less power usage accept nvidia they always seem to pull a carrot out of their ass,they saiying the next evolution will have lower power

ati lowered power usage with the 5 series
intel is throwing the lower power usage monikers with sandy bridge due next year
amd sending the same signals with bulldozer

i would personally stick to 1 kw it should last well past 2 years unless you planning something crazy like 3 - 4 hey maybe more card capable in future but you'd be hard pressed to max 1000 watts with 2 cards and some crazy overclocking

here is a nice 1kw at a good price

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817814010

 

[pivotax]

well the trend is toward less power usage accept nvidia they always seem to pull a carrot out of their ass,they saiying the next evolution will have lower power

ati lowered power usage with the 5 series
intel is throwing the lower power usage monikers with sandy bridge due next year
amd sending the same signals with bulldozer

i would personally stick to 1 kw it should last well past 2 years unless you planning something crazy like 3 - 4 hey maybe more card capable in future but you'd be hard pressed to max 1000 watts with 2 cards and some crazy overclocking

here is a nice 1kw at a good price

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817814010

Ok dude, here is the different PSU choices i have:
(Please tell me the best one of theese, dont think about wattage and ***, i just want to know the one with best performance)
Chieftec A-135 Series APS-1000C - 1 kW
Chieftec Super Series CFT-1200G-DF - 1.2 kW
Corsair Professional Series HX1000W - 1 kW

The reason the PSU's are limited, is becouse i live in Norway
but theese are the only ones over 900w
So im thinking the Corsair OFC! but i dunno what do u think?

 

[obsidian86]

corsair is usally solid, do you have a link from where you are buying

 

[pivotax]

corsair is usally solid, do you have a link from where you are buying

Yes no problem (sites are norwegian)

Chieftec A-135 Series APS-1000C http://www.amentio.no/Avdelinger/datautstyr/Str%C3%B8mforsyning/ATX/Chieftec/Chieftec-A-135-Series-APS-1000C---Str%C3%B8mf-APS-1000C-1018388.aspx

Chieftec Super Series CFT-1200G-DF http://www.amentio.no/Avdelinger/datautstyr/Str%C3%B8mforsyning/ATX/Chieftec/Chieftec-Super-Series-CFT-1200G-DF---Str-CFT-1200G-DF-883346.aspx

Corsair HX1000W http://www.amentio.no/Avdelinger/datautstyr/Str%C3%B8mforsyning/ATX/Corsair/Corsair-HX1000W---Str%C3%B8mforsyning--inter-CMPSU-1000HXEU-972900.aspx

 

[obsidian86]

corsair it is

 

[pivotax]

corsair it is

Cheers m8 Finnaly got this build ready to make

 

[Mr Pizza]

Just drop the 800D, get the 600T and then you don't have to worry about cooling..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139003&Tpk=600T