Please take a look at 1500~ gaming pc and critique

[milhouse2]

Case: Corsair Carbide Series 400R Mid-Tower Gaming Case
CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-2500K 3.30 GHz 6M Intel Smart Cache LGA1155 (All Venom OC Certified)
Cooling Fan: CoolerMaster Hyper TX3 Gaming CPU Cooling Fan
Motherboard: * [CrossFireX/SLI] GigaByte GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 Intel Z68 Chipset
Memory: 8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Module (Corsair or Major Brand)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1.2GB 16X PCIe Video Card [+186] (EVGA Superclocked)
Video Card 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1.2GB 16X PCIe Video Card [+342] (EVGA Superclocked)
Power Supply : 850 Watts - Raidmax RX-850AE 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
Hard Drive: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD

Tough question, but do you think 570 sli will be blown out of the water by southern islands or kepler ? I'd like to max bf3/future games at 1080p? Any heat issues you guys think might happen ? AMD CF better option ?

Thanks.

 

[inzone]

That is a nice build , if you go with the 570's you should be good for a couple years anyway. It takes the game develpoers a while to make games that will overload what is out there on the high end today.
There is one thing to consider to go with your build and that is a SSD. Since you have a MB that has the Smart Cache feature , if you got a 120gb SSD then you could make two partitions , one at 20gb for the cache and the rest for your OS and then you would use your hdd for everything else.

 

[siege_templar]

Dont get sc 570 from evga the clock speeds are 20 mhz higher lol.

 

[siege_templar]

And also for beat sli config go for ab with a nf200 (I think that's what it is called) chip for dual x16 cards and less micro shuttering, one phone can't provide links but 1 is a asrock extreme 7 gen 3.

 

[milhouse2]

Dont get sc 570 from evga the clock speeds are 20 mhz higher lol.

It is the same price so might as well.

 

[GoldenI]

I'd switch the cooling fan for a Hyper 212+ to be quite honest with you.

Also, I'd recommend the Corsair TX750 power supply over the Raidmax one. It's cheaper and will deliver the same performance (if not the same, better).

 

[milhouse2]

Do you guys think a single nvidia 680 or amd 7950/70 will smoke a 570 sli or 580 sli ?

 

[inzone]

No