Should I spend $200 to fix my E6850 computer and wait for Sandy

[roadkill2]

With what i'm hearing does it make since to wait and put off the next build for a few months? My new build was to be from Eloric's build design in the compitition for the $2000 gaming computer. I will be downsizing his design and reuse my case, power supply, eliminate one graphic card, perhaps not OC and eliminate the CPU cooler (see below).

I'm need to move in one direction or the other starting soon as I wan't to order parts this week.

Any thoughts would be helpful!

Thank you in advance.


Existing build:
Striker extreem MB
CPU E6850
Vidio Card 8800 GTX
Ultra 1000
Cosair Ram 4 gig's 5-5-5-15
Vista 32






eloric
CPU: Core i7-930
Motherboard: Gigabyte X58 UD3R
GPU: 2 X GTX 480s in SLI for $880. They are hot. They draw more power than they should, but they sure do scale nicely in SLI.
Storage, HDD: Spinpoint F3, 1 TB (I'll use my seagate 250)
Storage, SSD: OCZ Agility 2 60 GB (I'll use one SSD)
RAM: Corsair 1600 DDR3, triple channel, 3 X 2 GB for 6GB total. 8-8-8-24
PSU: Corsair 1000W HX series. (I'll use my Ultra)
Heatsink: CoolerMaster Hyper 212 (TBD)
Case: Antec Dark Fleet DF 30 (I'll use my Coolmaster Stacker case)
Vista or WDW 7 = 64 (TBD)

 

[ScrewySqrl]

what's your total budget?

 

[roadkill2]

I'm thinking at this time about $1,500 + - range and producing a system that can grow if need be. As a reality point I started gaming at the beginning with unreal back in 2002 + - and was highly rated but at this moment I don't think I need tha badest up to date system. Most likely will remain with one card.

 

[ScrewySqrl]

for $1200 you can get a good i7-950 system with a top-flight gpu (5870, 480. 5970), 1 tb hard drive, a decent SSD, and 4 gb ram.

 

[roadkill2]

for $1200 you can get a good i7-950 system with a top-flight gpu (5870, 480. 5970), 1 tb hard drive, a decent SSD, and 4 gb ram.

Thanks for the reply - So are you saying to move forward with the new build rather than wait for the Sandy motherboards? I know tech moves very fast as there is always something new around the corner.

And I do want my cake but need to sell the boat - Haha!

 

[roadkill2]

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