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System Usage from Most to Least Important:gaming,movies,tv watching,music,storage,Internet
 
Parts Not Required:, speakers, OS
 
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com, tiger direct
 
Country of Origin: USA
 
Parts Preferences: intel evga and asus
 
Overclocking: Yes
 
SLI: Yes
 
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080, 1920x1200
 
Additional Comments: supports max graphics.... Mostly a multi media and gaming system..... It should look awesome.. Lights and fan controls a plus..looking awesome is the most important
 
 

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CPU: $315 Intel Core i7-2600K

MOBO: $200 ASUS P8Z68-V PRO or better still $350 GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD7-B3

RAM: $48 CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB

GPU: 2x $500 EVGA SuperClocked 015-P3-1582-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support ...

HSF: $85 Noctua NH-D14

PSU: $280 CORSAIR Gold AX1200

Case: $190 COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942 or better still $280 Corsair Obsidian Series 800D

That's $2118+ shipping.

The rest goes towards a BD writer, a SSD and lights etc.

edit: If the heat spreaders in those RAM modules are too big for the HSF (shouldn't be), you can always get the G.SKILL Sniper 8GB
 

hornsan1

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Why not water cooled? With the h100? I'm looking to get 5 ghz out of the i7.

Thanks for your reply. Oh and the secondary color needs to be blue with either a black or white case :bounce:
 

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You need to get really lucky with a good chip to get a stable 5G.

Personally, I'm still old school. Pretty uncomfortable mixing H2O with electronics. I've got absolutely no experience with that personally :p

I'm sure someone else will help you out with that one.

Anything else - shoot.
 

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cpu
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-RSSDailyDeals-_-na-_-na&AID=10521304&PID=4176827&SID=kxpn2dntwncn 219
motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157269&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-RSSDailyDeals-_-na-_-na&AID=10521304&PID=4176827&SID=1dibztdar4p17 279
ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231435&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3899435&SID=skim1402X558040X5783a5af915056a347af293456896736 159
hdd
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3899435&SID=skim1402X558040Xe451f28ac39a5d1208d05c0a5398819a 79
gpu
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500184 x3 1347
ssd
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233181&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-Solid%20State%20Disk-_-Corsair-_-20233181&AID=10440897&PID=4933389&SID= 194
cpu cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181017&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3899435&SID=skim1402X558040Xd1a090dc1d827423967b660e8667c1e6 119
optical
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136232&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3899435&SID=skim1402X558040X41cf67dd9d4b5421cda3b24c9510c0c7 69
sound
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102024&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3899435&SID=skim1402X558040X44880327d3346e209a4bee96877acbaa 79
case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119225 189
fan controls
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811992004 49
total 2689 before rebates
i couldn't put asus and evga because they are to expensive.

 

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i was writing while the other person replied. i never put an i7 becuase it says its for gaming and another gpu would be better . if you want one you could remove one gpu. i forgot the psu take away the sound card for a OCZ ZX Series 1000W that makes it go over your total by $60 but you can get rebates.
 

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So my actual budget is 3500 with peripherals. I'm looking for 3d surround. And its not for me personally. It's more important for the system to look. Expensive and powerful than actually deliver. And really 5g is hard to get? Cause my 2500k get 4.65 with an h80 cooling it.
 

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Apparently the budget was just upped to 4000$ dollars. Sorry guys I really appreciate it. Again the most important thing is the wow factor. When people see it they should be very impressed. And I need the monitors mounted together
 

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With 3-way SLI some games will run into CPU bottleneck pretty fast unless you really make it heavy on the GPUs, that means resolutions of 1920x1200 and above.

You're not seriously suggesting 3X 580 with a 3.1 Ghz quad, right? You'll prolly need to run the 2600K @4.0+ to avoid CPU bottlenecking.

And if you do get a 2560X1440 monitor, you do realize the cost of that right?

With more GPU intensive games like Metro 2033, Battlefield BC2, Crysis and even Far Cry 2 with say 8xAA 3-way SLI does show noticeable gains. But as I said, you do need extremely high resolutions for it to work effectively.

Also, gaming with three monitors where you literally increase the GPU load by threefold, these are situations where a triple GPU setup makes sense.

What doesn't make sense obviously is the massive amount of money you need to spend on a setup like this.

The three cards alone will set you back roughly 1400/1500-plus the cost of the rest of the set-up, including three 2560X1440 monitors :ouch: .

And then obviously there's your power supply. The very bare minimum you'll need to get is a good 1200 Watt PSU, and make damn sure that the PSU you choose has these 6-pin AND three 8-pin PCIE PEG connectors to feed the graphics cards.

When it comes to CPU bottlenecking, you could say overclock to 5 GHz+ as you asked, but overclocking requires additional voltage on the processor, if you need to step towards 1.5v or even higher your overall peak power consumption will rise significantly. An additional 100 to 200 Watts may not be out of the question at all. And overclocking it to such dramatically high levels would endanger system stability by pushing the 1200 Watt PSU close to its limits.

So basically, this is really silly stuff to do. But people out there do purchase setups like this I suppose. But with 3-way you'll run into heaps of problems like power consumption, noise levels and then the CPU bottlenecks and after all that, scaling may in any case may leave you disappointed.
 

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So is it impossible to accomplish with those funds. I appreciate your comments. Understand this aren't my requirements.. It's just a build for a guy with money to blow. What about the gtx 590
 
I'd go for something along the lines of the first build with the 2 GTX 580's and the HAF X. I'd go for the H100 over the Noctua though, bit more expensive but the Noctua is pretty ugly. Means you can actually see your RAM too. This should leave you plenty of cash for a 3d surround setup and a 5.25'' LCD screen fan controller.
 

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thanks for the insight .

im confused does he want two or three monitors .

he also said he wants 3d surround sound and i dont know if he ment 3d monitors too.correct me if im wrong .if he does want 2 3d monitors then 3 gpu's would make sense.
 

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I sincerely hope you're talking 'bout a single 590, in which case, GTX 580 SLI is gonna pretty much own it. However, I can't even begin to describe the sheer absurdity of a quad GPU SLI dual 590 set-up.

EDIT- @mj - The GPU link goes to a 580 not a 590.

I cannot imagine anybody not getting the top-of-the-line CPU for a $4000 build (for just 90 odd bucks extra) if at all for just the heck of it especially as this guy clearly needs bragging rights.

Surely you need a Blue Ray burner at $4000 levels (at 2750 levels, actually :p)
 

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590 sli at 5670x1080p 3d gaming is like gaming with 2 580's at 5670x1080p 2d. 3d cuts the fps in half. and even then quad sli is snot double the performance of 2 way sli. so if you want to max out bf3 playing 3d, 2 590's is not absurd. that is why people are putting 3 580's and skipping on the 2600k and others the blu-ray burner so they can fit in 3 3d screens