Hobby machine for extreme gaming for the next few years.
buying time ,, anytime soon , deadline is this summer
my build:
Chassis: MAINGEAR F131 Chassis With One-Piece Aluminum Front Construction - Black with Acoustic Dampening
Exterior Finish: F131 Super Stock - Stock Black
Motherboard: Gigabyte® Z68XP-UD5-B3 Featuring USB 3.0, SATA 6G, Lucid Virtu
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 2700K 3.5GHz/3.9GHz Turbo 8MB L3 Cache GT2
Processor Cooling: MAINGEAR EPIC 120 Supercooler
MAINGEAR Redline Overclocking Service: YES! - Redline™ Overclock My System!
Memory: 16GB Corsair® Vengeance™ DDR3-1866 1.5V (4x4GB)
Graphics and GPGPU Accelerator: AMD® Radeon™ HD 7970 3GB GDDR5 w/Eyefinity [ENTHUSIAST]
Power Supply: 660 Watt Seasonic® X-660 80+ Gold Certified Modular Power Supply ROHS
Hard Drive Bay One: 20GB Intel® 311 Series SSD (w/ TRIM) [SSD Caching ONLY]
Hard Drive Bay Two: 1.0TB Western Digital Caviar Black SATA 6G 7200rpm 64MB Cache
Hard Drive Bay Three: 120GB Corsair® Force GT SSD SATA 6G (w/ TRIM) [555MB/s Reads]
RAID: Intel® Smart Response Technology (requires SSD+Mechanical HDD)
Optical Drive One: 24X Dual Layer DVD RW Drive w/ LightScribe Technology
Audio: 7.1+2 Channel High Definition Surround Sound Supporting S/DIF Optical In and Out
Ethernet Adapter: On-board Gigabit Ethernet
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
The Final Finesse: Designed, Manufactured, and Supported in the USA - Flawless Craftsmanship and Wire Management
Angelic Service Warranty: Lifetime Angelic Service Labor and Phone Support with 1 Year Hardware Warranty
Reconfigure F131 Super Stock [Z68]
Product Subtotal: $2,983.00
This is what I find to be the best bang for buck for me , I read reviews and found Maingear to be the best dealership.
This is my first system that I buy in the USA and i wont be staying here long , so I want to use the time and grab a badass system to take home, ( its alot more expensive where I come from) , I have very little experience with computer hardware except for what I have Read this year.
I would love some suggestions or opinions on this
MY MAXIMUM budget is 3000$ , anything below is nice.
I am not in any rush to buy it , but I will be going back home this summer so would you recommend waiting for the new ivy-bridge cpu?
I am running 2 monitors , 1 32" hd t , via hdmi cable and benq v2420 , might be changing my tv out for 27" lcd gaming monitor
Thank you very much
buying time ,, anytime soon , deadline is this summer
my build:
Chassis: MAINGEAR F131 Chassis With One-Piece Aluminum Front Construction - Black with Acoustic Dampening
Exterior Finish: F131 Super Stock - Stock Black
Motherboard: Gigabyte® Z68XP-UD5-B3 Featuring USB 3.0, SATA 6G, Lucid Virtu
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 2700K 3.5GHz/3.9GHz Turbo 8MB L3 Cache GT2
Processor Cooling: MAINGEAR EPIC 120 Supercooler
MAINGEAR Redline Overclocking Service: YES! - Redline™ Overclock My System!
Memory: 16GB Corsair® Vengeance™ DDR3-1866 1.5V (4x4GB)
Graphics and GPGPU Accelerator: AMD® Radeon™ HD 7970 3GB GDDR5 w/Eyefinity [ENTHUSIAST]
Power Supply: 660 Watt Seasonic® X-660 80+ Gold Certified Modular Power Supply ROHS
Hard Drive Bay One: 20GB Intel® 311 Series SSD (w/ TRIM) [SSD Caching ONLY]
Hard Drive Bay Two: 1.0TB Western Digital Caviar Black SATA 6G 7200rpm 64MB Cache
Hard Drive Bay Three: 120GB Corsair® Force GT SSD SATA 6G (w/ TRIM) [555MB/s Reads]
RAID: Intel® Smart Response Technology (requires SSD+Mechanical HDD)
Optical Drive One: 24X Dual Layer DVD RW Drive w/ LightScribe Technology
Audio: 7.1+2 Channel High Definition Surround Sound Supporting S/DIF Optical In and Out
Ethernet Adapter: On-board Gigabit Ethernet
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
The Final Finesse: Designed, Manufactured, and Supported in the USA - Flawless Craftsmanship and Wire Management
Angelic Service Warranty: Lifetime Angelic Service Labor and Phone Support with 1 Year Hardware Warranty
Reconfigure F131 Super Stock [Z68]
Product Subtotal: $2,983.00
This is what I find to be the best bang for buck for me , I read reviews and found Maingear to be the best dealership.
This is my first system that I buy in the USA and i wont be staying here long , so I want to use the time and grab a badass system to take home, ( its alot more expensive where I come from) , I have very little experience with computer hardware except for what I have Read this year.
I would love some suggestions or opinions on this
MY MAXIMUM budget is 3000$ , anything below is nice.
I am not in any rush to buy it , but I will be going back home this summer so would you recommend waiting for the new ivy-bridge cpu?
I am running 2 monitors , 1 32" hd t , via hdmi cable and benq v2420 , might be changing my tv out for 27" lcd gaming monitor
Thank you very much