New Super PC for 2010 Holiday

[V-Key]

Hi I am planning on building a high end machine, but my before I do so I wanted to know if anyone sees any incompatibility issues I may have with the following setup. I know that the components are going to be expensive, but I am going to wait till black friday sales, and maybe get some deals online:

Motherboard: ASUS LGA 1366 Intel X58 Republic of Gamers ATX Rampage III
CPU: Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition 3.33GHz 12 MB L3 Cache
Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H70 High Performance CPU Cooler CWCH70
Memory: Patriot Viper II Sector 7 Edition DDR3 24 GB 1600mhz
Video Card: XFX HD-597X-ENFN Radeon HD 5970 BLACK 4GB
OS/Program Hard Drive: OCZ RevoDrive X2 OCZSSDPX-1RVDX0100 PCI-E 100GB
Data Hard Drive :Western Digital VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX 600GB 10000 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
CD-ROM Drive: LG Electronics LightScribe 10x SATA Blu-ray Combo Internal Drive
Power Supply:Corsair CMPSU-1000HX 1000-Watt HX Professional Series 80 Plus

everything else is just going to be peripherals, and not so expensive items like card readers and keyboard, etc. I'd really appreciate some input.

 

[buwish]

This topic has been moved from the section Opinions and Experiences to section Systems by Buwish

 

[wortwortwort]

Everything would work, but I have a few suggestions:

Wait for the HD 69xx cards. They will beat the 5970.

Skip the H70. You can get a really nice air cooler for the same price and it will be much quieter. Try the Prolimatech Megahalems with a pair of decent fans.

Why do you need the velociraptor for storage?

 

[V-Key]

Everything would work, but I have a few suggestions:

Wait for the HD 69xx cards. They will beat the 5970.

Skip the H70. You can get a really nice air cooler for the same price and it will be much quieter. Try the Prolimatech Megahalems with a pair of decent fans.

Why do you need the velociraptor for storage?

I guess I figure I want SSD performance to access my documents, movies and music, and velociraptor seems very fast HDD. But now I am having second thought about that. Perhaps I should wait to have SSD to come further down in price. You gotta understand, I have had a low-mid range PC since 2005, and it takes forever to access data. I want something that will prove useful for my demands further down in time. My wife said I can go ahead and put together my dream PC, budget under $5000.

 

[tomate2]

thats one dam dream pc
and a nice wife... xD
love your choices especially the revodrive...
but i dont think you need a 10k rpm drive for data...
thats about the only thing that i would switch....
you could try raid 0 if you get too annoyed accessing your data
id say throw the rest of the budget into 30'' monitors and make the best out of that efeinity!

 

[ScrewySqrl]

get a Samsung Spinpoint F4 2 Terabyte drive for storage. Its SATA 2, but it uses a trio of 667 GB Platters, making access very fast, coparable to 7200 RPM drives, although its only a 5400 RPM drive. Its great and runs $99-109

 

[darkknight4686]

Unless you need the components ASAP, and since you have 5k to spend on a brand new, beastly PC... just overclock your current PC and wait for the next Intel and AMD chipsets (i.e. Q1 2011) and NVIDIA/ATI graphics cards and get those. They will be much more future-proof and will run amazingly fast.

Also, i agree with the other posts about not using a 10000 RPM drive for regular data storage. Either get cheap 7200 RPM drives and put in RAID0 or get a bigger SSD.

 

[Somebody_007]

Is this PC urgent? because we're looking at a chipset/cpu/gpu revolution by both amd, intel and nvidia in the next couple of months.

I like the idea of the revo drive but this is newer/better http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227646&cm_re=OCZ_IBIS-_-20-227-646-_-Product

 

[gsgoody]

Unless you need the components ASAP, and since you have 5k to spend on a brand new, beastly PC... just overclock your current PC and wait for the next Intel and AMD chipsets (i.e. Q1 2011) and NVIDIA/ATI graphics cards and get those. They will be much more future-proof and will run amazingly fast.

Also, i agree with the other posts about not using a 10000 RPM drive for regular data storage. Either get cheap 7200 RPM drives and put in RAID0 or get a bigger SSD.

Agreed! At the very least wait for the 69xx cards next month. And definitely dump the raptor in favor of a couple 7200 drives in RAID. You'll get plenty of speed and a ton more value as far as GB/$!!

 

[wortwortwort]

No one else has commented on his use of the H70...

 

[V-Key]

Yeah, it is a lot of money, and perhaps I will wait for the new chipsets then. I have not built a pc for almost 7 years now, and kind of out of the loop. Many thanks everybody, I appreciate hearing reason and advice.

 

[V-Key]

What's wrong with the H70?

 

[davewolfgang]

Nothing is "wrong" with the H70, but you can get a MUCH quieter - and cooler solution for a much cheaper price. Unless you are majorly OC'ing, a CM 212+ would be fine for usually under $30. And did I mention it's quieter?

What games are you playing to want to get that GPU? Getting a pair of 460's (1GB), or even a pair of 6850's or 6870's will do you WONDERS and still save you money.

And a couple 1.5-2TB 7200 rpm drives will give for your Data drive(s). Get an SSD for your OS drive and put everything else on the other drives.

 

[V-Key]

In addition to gaming (C.O.D, Crysis, EVE online) I am going to use it for Chief Architect, Adobe PS. and maybe MAYA.

 

[chief2010]

I'f you don't mind spending a little more, I'd go for the HD5870 in CF.
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2010-gaming-graphics-charts-high-quality/Sum-of-FPS-Benchmarks-Totals,Marque_fbrandx4,2485.html

 

[wortwortwort]

What is your monitor resolution.

Don't get 5870 in CF (Although I love mine), wait for the 6970

 

[V-Key]

Samsung XL-2370-1 23 inch monitors(x2) that i will run at 1920x1080

 

[Somebody_007]

5870 CF is a horrible choice in this budget the best choice is currently going 580gtx.

And the h70 is very good in this budget I'd stick with it. It cools better than air coolers iwth proper fans.

 

[yesitsmario]

The GTX 580 was just released and the 6970 is just around the corner, I'd wait to see which card is better.

 

[reaper2794]

Definitely dont get the H70, and Id stay away from 5400 RPM drives, itll bottleneck, get 7200, no more, no less

Spinpoint's are amazing, could look at the F3 1TB

and what the HELL do you need 24GB of RAM for? If you're running a secret operation, I want in on this

 

[Somebody_007]

whats wrong with the h70? It's smaller and thus promotes case air flow not to mention it cools great.

 

[ScrewySqrl]

Water cooling IMHO is higher maintenance and not usually worth the few extra MHz in an overclock. Air cooling is good enough for 99% of use. And the H70, while better than the H50, still doesn't match air cooling in it's price range

 

[Somebody_007]

Water cooling IMHO is higher maintenance and not usually worth the few extra MHz in an overclock. Air cooling is good enough for 99% of use. And the H70, while better than the H50, still doesn't match air cooling in it's price range

the h70 has no maintanance and performs like the very best air coolers while costing a bit more. It's not the best deal but it offers some advantages air coolers don't.

BTW: real watercooling blows anything else out of the water. and when you've got something like this as a radiotor boy o boy you'll know what extreme cooling really is all about http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cooling/2010/07/20/hailea-hc-500a-water-chiller-review/1

 

[mk-ultra]

That 100 dollar "liquid cooling heatsink" is not worth the money. If you are willing to spend that much on a heatsink, go with the Noctua NH-D14 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608018 , on frosty tech it is in second place for intel cpu's.

 

[Somebody_007]

Can you actually give any arguments besides just breaking it down for no reason?

btw here is a respected review where they like it(as there is no reason not to) http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1395/7/