Approximate Purchase Date: By end of July
Budget Range: $1500-2500... I prefer to be under 2000 so I can upgrade monitors sooner, but if spending a littler extra is a better value I'm open to it.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, office work
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitors, ODD, 2x2GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000 MHz, possibly 500GB HDD out of old 2 year old system
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, Amazon, open to others
Country of Origin: USA
Parts Preferences: Intel CPU, 2x Radeon HD6950
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: Yes
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 and up (when I upgrade monitors)
Additional Comments: I've been debating between i5-2500k and i7-2600k. My biggest worry is if the 2 6950 cards will fit on the mother board and in the case.
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OS: Win 7 Home Premium
CPU: i5-2500k or i7-2600k
GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
SILVERSTONE RAVEN RV02B-EW Matte black reinforced plastic outer shell, 0.8mm Steel body ATX Full Tower Computer Case
OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
MSI R6950 Twin Frozr II OC Radeon HD 6950 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-850HX 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Antec KUHLER H2O 920 Liquid Cooling System
Alternative Parts
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower Compucase Case with USB 3.0 and Black Interior
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Currently Own
CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Desktop Memory Model CMT4GX3M2A2000C8
Budget Range: $1500-2500... I prefer to be under 2000 so I can upgrade monitors sooner, but if spending a littler extra is a better value I'm open to it.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, office work
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitors, ODD, 2x2GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000 MHz, possibly 500GB HDD out of old 2 year old system
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, Amazon, open to others
Country of Origin: USA
Parts Preferences: Intel CPU, 2x Radeon HD6950
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: Yes
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 and up (when I upgrade monitors)
Additional Comments: I've been debating between i5-2500k and i7-2600k. My biggest worry is if the 2 6950 cards will fit on the mother board and in the case.
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OS: Win 7 Home Premium
CPU: i5-2500k or i7-2600k
GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
SILVERSTONE RAVEN RV02B-EW Matte black reinforced plastic outer shell, 0.8mm Steel body ATX Full Tower Computer Case
OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
MSI R6950 Twin Frozr II OC Radeon HD 6950 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-850HX 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Antec KUHLER H2O 920 Liquid Cooling System
Alternative Parts
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower Compucase Case with USB 3.0 and Black Interior
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Currently Own
CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Desktop Memory Model CMT4GX3M2A2000C8