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Approximate Purchase Date: Boxing Day 2012

Budget Range: around 1500

System Usage: Gaming and Video Editing

Are you buying a monitor: No

Do you need to buy OS: Yes

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: NCIX and Newegg

Location: Coquitlam BC, Canada

Parts Preferences: Nvidea (600 series) and sandy bridge Intel (2700k already owned))

Overclocking: Yes

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Additional Comments: I don't need a mouse, keyboard, processor, or screen... i would like a windowed case cause i might go a custom water cooling loop down the road. Please help, i need suggestions...
 
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OMG!OOPS!LOL...i apologize i just realized i have been giving you prices in us where i am but your in ca. My bad bud sorry about that.
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blazorthon

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I'd recommend an AMD 7900 card over any GTX card for your purposes. They have better compute performance and I worry that like Quick-Sync, Nvidia's competing hardware decoder, although fast, also has crap quality. AMD's Radeon 7950 is also the top value high-end graphics card if you overclock because good 7950s, although priced around $300 now, can easily surpass the 670 in overclocking with current drivers. I've heard nothing but good things for the MSI 7900 and 7800 cards.

A good Z77 motherboard is probably the best choice in this situation even though you have a Sandy Bridge CPU. They are newer and thus more modern than boards that use older chipsets and Z77 easily has the best native connectivity of Intel's chipsets. Using a newer BIOS and newer drivers is a good result of this too.

What resolution are you going to be gaming at? How many of what graphics card(s) is truly best decided with this info kept in mind.

There are many great case options that have good support for water loops, although you probably don't want a cheap case for this, so $50-$120 or so is a good budget range.

Your PSU needs would depend on the graphics configuration.

A good PC3-12800 2x4GB 8-8-8-24 or 9-9-9-24 memory kit is usually recommended these days. However, you might benefit from having 16GB if your video editing is a big RAM eater.

Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional. It pretty much depends on how much memory you want to be the max upgrade for you. 16GB seems reasonable, so I'd recommend Home Premium unless you want to be more upgrade-friendly and in that case, Professional seems like the next best choice.
 
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I would only be doing single screen at 1900x1080... other screens just for side programs like Skype i like to keep open and it helps with Sony Vegas. what motherboard do you recommend. i would like to have a sleek mobo (mainly black, no cheesy blue or white.etc), and what do you think of an cooler master haf x???
 
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293
This is a great motherboard. It's also pretty much all black, and I'm pretty sure that you'd like it based on what you asked for.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102989
A great Radeon 7950 that comes with a free Sleeping Dogs game copy.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139020
A great PSU with enough wattage for some serious overclocking.

Also, I like pretty much all of the HAF cases. Do you know for sure if you're rather have 8GB of memory or 16GB of memory?
 
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the two mobos i was looking at before were the
asrock extreme4/6
asus sabertooth z77
because of their looks.

I am still debating on amd tho, i was convinced into nvidea, i know amd is a better deal tho. ify on that

also i thinki would go long term with a power supply incase i get a second card for side screens, how many watts do you think i will need for oc on ram, gpu(s), and cpu + a cooling system?
 
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blazorthon

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Don't bother overclocking your RAM. It won't make a significant difference in much. It might help your video editing a little, but I doubt that it would be a significant improvement and gaming is notorious for not being limited by RAM performance much at all.

If you want a second card, then a 750-800w PSU might be a better idea if you want some big overclocks. There are higher wattage Corsair models for this.

For cooling, well, that would depend on how far you want to overclock your CPU. How far do you intend to try going?
 
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http://www.directcanada.com <----- Free Shipping on orders over $50 | located in Richmond, BC

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http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11180AC2450&vpn=CC600TM&manufacture=CORSAIR $150.15
Corsair Graphite Series 600TM Mid-Tower Case ATX 4X5.25 6X3.5INT 4 Channel Fan Ctrl No PS MESH Panel

http://www.corsair.com/pc-cases/graphite-series-pc-case/graphite-series-600t.html

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11180AC9596&vpn=CC600T-SIDEWM&manufacture=CORSAIR $21.32
Corsair CC600T-SIDEWM Graphite Series 600T Side Panel W/ Windowed & MESH Insert *Case Not Included*

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=15180AC1911&vpn=P1750BNLG9&manufacture=XFX $116.25
XFX 750W PRO750W XXX Edition Single Rail ATX 12V 62A 24PIN ATX Modular Power Supply 80PLUS Silver

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=10530BD6646&vpn=P8Z77-V&manufacture=ASUS $179.47
ASUS P8Z77-V ATX LGA1155 Z77 DDR3 SLI 3PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 2PCI SATA3 DisplayPort USB3.0 Motherboard

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11130AC2901&vpn=RR-T812-24PK-R1&manufacture=COOLERMASTER $67.28
Coolermaster Tpc 812 Dual Vertical Vapor Chamber AM2/AM3/LGA775/1366/1155/1156/2011 120MM Fan

http://www.bestdirect.ca/products/235860/CML16GX3M4A1600C9B/CORSAIR/ $96.66
Corsair CML16GX3M4A1600C9B Vengeance Low Profile Blue 16GB 4X4GB DDR3-1600 CL9-9-9-24 Memory Kit

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=10530DR5213&vpn=DRW-24B1ST%20Bulk&manufacture=ASUS $17.58
ASUS DRW-24B1ST 24X SATA DVD Writer OEM Black

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11830BD4893&vpn=GV-N670OC-2GD&manufacture=GIGABYTE $390.44
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 OC 980MHZ 2GB 6.0GHZ GDDR5 2xDVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Video Card

http://www.bestdirect.ca/products/245352/SDSSDP-128G-G25/SANDISK/ $97.90
SanDisk SDSSDP-128G-G25 128GB 2.5IN SATA3 6GB/S Solid Stat Disk Flash Drive SSD

http://www.bestdirect.ca/products/222137/GFC-02050/MICROSOFT/ $109.20
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64BIT SP1 DVD OEM
 
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For water cooling do you mean fisher price water cooling type setups such as closed loops or are you considering the real deal custom loop if you considering to do it the right way then i would suggest Case:Thermaltake Chaser MK-I (VN300M1W2N) Black SECC ATX Full Tower Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133191#top


Case:NZXT SWITCH 810 Matte Black CA-SW810-M1 Steel / Plastic ATX HYBIRD Full Tower Gaming Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146095#top

Case:Corsair Obsidian Series 650D (CC650DW-1) Black Steel structure with black brushed aluminum faceplate ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139006#top

Case:COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Black Steel/ Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119225#top

 
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+1 ;)
 
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Well i could think of only one of the top of my head that is a top notch mid high end solid mobo and worth the price http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157295 as for the cooler master Haf x pretty much sums it up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djj7jW6ny2M&feature=related :lol:
 
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it may be alot for some people, but not for me... i am using every usb port in my current shitty pc (10(8 on mb)) so if i were to get this board i would probably get a usb expansion.
 
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I don't think you should waste your money on a H-100 not real watercooling anyways :na: for GPU honestly i wouldn't touch the 660 ti at it's current price i would go with a Asus GTX 670 DCU II Top. :sol:
 
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Case: Coolermaster Haf x [180]

Mobo: ASRock Extreme6 [230]

Ram: Corsair Vengeance 16gb [105]

Gpu: 670 (MSI???) []

Psu: 800watt?

Hdd: Western Digital 1TB 64Mb cache [130]

Ssd:?

Dvd: ASUS 24x Dvd writter [25]

Ops: Windows7 Home Premium [120]

Cooler: Cooler master 212 evo [35]
 
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Nice build bud the MSI 670 PE is a good choice i would buy that if the Asus GTX 670 DCU II Top was not a option PSU for your build 650W would be more than enough if you plan on ever buying another 670 in the future i would get a 750W reliable PSU just to assure you of my recommendations i will break it down for you nVidia itself recommend 500W for a single 670. Add 170W for SLI & recommended is 670W.
http://www.nvidia.in/object/geforce-gtx-670-in.html#pdpContent=2


For testing conducted for SLI 670, the resulting system consumption for SLI is 433W of which 293W are attributed to the gpu cards.
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-670-2-and-3way-sli-review/4


If you use this psu calculator considering your components, the result is 664W (overclocked processor & used 680x2 to simulate gpu OC:
http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine


All points out to 750W being more than enough.
 
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