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[JB00Junior]

Hi There, I'm building my first PC, been waiting 20 years to do that. I'm looking for a good Gaming System that will well last me 3 years before it has to undergo major upgrades.

Currently looking at this system:

Intel Core i7-3930K Overclocked to 4.6GHz

ASUS P9X79 Pro LGA 2011 Intel X79

Gainware NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 3GB 384bit

Corsair Force 3 60GB SSD Read: 550MB/s Write:490MB/s SATA3 Solid State Drive (OS Drive)
1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM SATA3 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive (Data Drive)

Bitfenix Colossus Full Tower Professional

Corsair Hydro Series H100 Extreme
Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

Corsair AX850 850W 80+ GOLD Fully Modular High Performance Power Supply

Corsair Vengeance 16GB Quad Channel (4x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz High Performance

24x Dual Layer DVD +/- Writer

LG 8* Blu-ray reader

Going to cost me 25 000 South African Rands,
I know, its expensive but it's South Africa.

Will propably go SLI with the GTX 580 next year if the Nvidia guys bring out the GTX600 series. It'll be cheaper then.

Please let me know what you think guys.

 

[Ubrales]

Welcome to Tom's Hardware Forums!

Excellent components! Great system!

 

[devBunny]

Intel Core i7-3930K Overclocked to 4.6GHz --- Got that in mine, but not overclocked.

ASUS P9X79 Pro LGA 2011 Intel X79 -- Got that in mine

Gainware NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 3GB 384bit -- I went for a pair of GTX 560 Ti's (so that I can have four monitors)

Corsair Force 3 60GB SSD -- I went for a pair of cheaper but larger SSDs in RAID

Corsair Hydro Series H100 Extreme
Performance Liquid CPU Cooler -- Yup, got that in mine.

Bitfenix Colossus Full Tower Professional -- Mine's the Xigmatek Elysium (also worthy of the name colossus, it'll fit a dual Xeon board if need be)

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I look at yours, I see much of mine and, verily, I approve. ;O)

By the way, you haven't said what monitor(s) you'll have. Quality in that department can make the difference.

One thing, though. Current games don't have that much use of a 6-core machine so, unless games are changing to better utilise cores, a 3930 is probably overkill, unless you've got some work that will utilise the power (which is what mine's all about). If you only use 4 cores then the 3930 is not that much better than a 2600 so you might do better with one of those and put the money saved towards something else, for example, a bigger SSD or better screen. Or you might do better waiting for Ivy Bridge to come out. Make it 20 years and a few weeks. ;-)

 

[RaceGamePlayerX]

Great system! I would kill for one like it......but why is it in the Compaq forums?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

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