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Approximate Purchase Date: ASAP
Budget Range: 2000~2500
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Heavy CPU Multitaskin , Gaming , Movies , every day use.
Parts Not Required: Monitor , speakers , keybord , mouse.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com or otherbig retailers with best price fo same product.
Country: United States
Parts Preferences: Intel / best qulity.
Overclocking: Yes
SLI or Crossfire: Yes. in the feature.
Monitor Resolution: Highest possible
Additional Comments: i need help picking the best Motherboard possible dont care about $ as long as it delivers what i need. need something that will give me 100% performance from my SSD and raid 0 HDD's. best is sata 3 for HDDs and SSDs right?? and most of all.... does all my stuff look good / compatible ?
CASE : Rosewill THOR V2 Gaming ATX Full Tower – 99.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
PSU : CORSAIR Professional Series HX1050 – 209.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
Motherboard :
CPU : Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge – 319.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
Cooler : CORSAIR H100 (CWCH100) Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler – 119.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
RAM : G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 – 189.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
SSD : Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2CCA 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal SSD – 214.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
HDD : 2x Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM – 149.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... . (getting later )
GPU : GIGABYTE GV-N580UD-15I GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card – 509.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
Optical : SAMSUNG CD/DVD Burner – 15.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
OS : Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit – OEM – 129.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
Budget Range: 2000~2500
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Heavy CPU Multitaskin , Gaming , Movies , every day use.
Parts Not Required: Monitor , speakers , keybord , mouse.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com or otherbig retailers with best price fo same product.
Country: United States
Parts Preferences: Intel / best qulity.
Overclocking: Yes
SLI or Crossfire: Yes. in the feature.
Monitor Resolution: Highest possible
Additional Comments: i need help picking the best Motherboard possible dont care about $ as long as it delivers what i need. need something that will give me 100% performance from my SSD and raid 0 HDD's. best is sata 3 for HDDs and SSDs right?? and most of all.... does all my stuff look good / compatible ?
CASE : Rosewill THOR V2 Gaming ATX Full Tower – 99.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
PSU : CORSAIR Professional Series HX1050 – 209.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
Motherboard :
CPU : Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge – 319.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
Cooler : CORSAIR H100 (CWCH100) Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler – 119.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
RAM : G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 – 189.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
SSD : Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2CCA 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal SSD – 214.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
HDD : 2x Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM – 149.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... . (getting later )
GPU : GIGABYTE GV-N580UD-15I GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card – 509.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
Optical : SAMSUNG CD/DVD Burner – 15.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
OS : Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit – OEM – 129.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... .
More about : opnions
-I would go with this RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
It's cheaper and has a lower CAS Latency, so it's faster.
-I would also go with 1 HDD until HDD prices go down, since the flood in thailand made the prices go up.
-The PSU is overkill, even for 2 GTX580s, go with one that is 900W, it'll be more than enough to SLI:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
It's cheaper and has a lower CAS Latency, so it's faster.
-I would also go with 1 HDD until HDD prices go down, since the flood in thailand made the prices go up.
-The PSU is overkill, even for 2 GTX580s, go with one that is 900W, it'll be more than enough to SLI:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
Best solution
The 1600 RAM is still faster. CAS latency doesn't carry over between frequencies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cas_latency
You really don't need water cooling, as you almost certainly won't be pushing your 2600K to its OC limit. Just grab a $50 Mugen 3 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...).
I agree on the HDD idea, but only if it's possible to start up RAID with data already on one of the drives. I don't know if that's the case; if it is, go for it.
This PSU looks nicer to me, and it's 80+ Gold and $140 after MIR. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
Here's your beastly $270 mobo. It'll allow you to upgrade your CPU to Ivy if you ever feel the craving. Honestly, though, a Z68 Extreme4 would probably do you fine for $125. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cas_latency
You really don't need water cooling, as you almost certainly won't be pushing your 2600K to its OC limit. Just grab a $50 Mugen 3 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...).
I agree on the HDD idea, but only if it's possible to start up RAID with data already on one of the drives. I don't know if that's the case; if it is, go for it.
This PSU looks nicer to me, and it's 80+ Gold and $140 after MIR. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
Here's your beastly $270 mobo. It'll allow you to upgrade your CPU to Ivy if you ever feel the craving. Honestly, though, a Z68 Extreme4 would probably do you fine for $125. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
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