Gaming Build around 1400$

[elfenlieder]

What do you think about this build. I tried to take all the best price/quality/speed products.
A point was the silence of the components, GC, fans, Case, HD, and so on

MB : Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P
RAM : Kingston KHX1600C9D3T1K2/8GX 8GB 1600MHZ DDR3 NON-ECC CL9 ( Kit of 2)
HDD OS : SSD OCZ Vertex 3 120GB, 2.5", MLC, SATA3
HDD Data Raid 1 : 2x Western Digital WD10EADX 1TB 3.5" SATA 6 GB/s / 8.9ms / 32MB / GreenPower
Proc : Intel Core i5 2500K
GC : Gigabyte RADEON HD 6950 OC 1GB PCI-E PCIe x16/ AMD/ HD 6950/ 1024 MB
PSU : Enermax EMD625AWTII MODU82+ II 625W Enermax
FAN : GELID Solutions Tranquillo Rev2 // 3xcase Noctua NF-S12B ULN 120mm
CASE : Fractal Design R3
Optical : Plextor PX-L890SA

 

[Emelth]

Change SSD to crucial M4
Change HDD to Seagate Barracuda or Samsung Spinpoint F3

Do you plan to SLI?

 

[elfenlieder]

No because of the flicker of the SLI.
I'll change my GC all 2 years.

why is the M4 better do you think ?
and why are the Samsung, and Seagate better ?

 

[Emelth]

You chosed a Green HD its much slower than a regular HDD and not good for gaming. Personal preference OCZ is good as well I'll just got with the M4 less known problems and issues.

 

[elfenlieder]

Okay, thank you for the fast response.

I'd ever had Samsung HD and they're very good, i'll go for those one. I didn't saw it was a slower, greener HD

And for the SSD, it will be my first, i'll go with the M4. Thank you very much.

 

[nonnac7]

OCZ is having issues with their 3 Series SSD's(blue screen of deaths everywhere), Crucial M4's are extremely reliable.

 

[elfenlieder]

what about making a raid 1 of SSD's ? Does it work's ?

Currently i have Raid 1 of 250GB sata for Sys and a Raid 5 of 3x750Gb's sata
On a Promise controller

 

[Emelth]

I stay away from the raid so wouldnt be able to answer that

 

[elfenlieder]

On the advice of a friend, i'll make a raid 10 of 64GB SSD's.

I am looking for a good raid PCI-E controller

 

[elfenlieder]

Here the final build of my gaming computer :

MB : Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P
RAM : Kingston KHX1600C9D3T1K2/8GX 8GB 1600MHZ DDR3 NON-ECC CL9 ( Kit of 2)
HDD OS : 2x RAID 0 64 GB M4 SSD
HDD Data Raid 1 : 2x Samsung Spinpoint 750GB (old disks)
Proc : Intel Core i5 2500K
GC : Gigabyte RADEON HD 6950 OC 1GB PCI-E PCIe x16/ AMD/ HD 6950/ 1024 MB
PSU : Enermax EMD625AWTII MODU82+ II 625W Enermax
FAN : GELID Solutions Tranquillo Rev2 // 3xcase Noctua NF-S12B ULN 120mm
CASE : Fractal Design R3
Optical : Plextor PX-L890SA

I hope to get a pretty overclockeable system. I'm not really used to, but i'll try
Unless the software delivered by Gigabyte work's well.

Any idea about that ?