Please review my planned computer build

Spend the money on an SSD for a boot drive, and a little more money for a bigger SSD for your applications drive. The speed increase and change from HDD is night and day.

Then get multiple large HDD's for storing movies, photos, mp3's; etc... with enough room to back everything up.
 
Slavik said:
Such a waste of money on those graphics cards :(
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I do appreciate your input, however that doesn't help me. If it is a waste of money, then please feel free to point me to a nVidia card that isn't a waste :) Cause I am honestly trying my best. And I know you know more, so help out a noob and let me know what (nVidia) card you would choose :p
EasyTarget said:
Spend the money on an SSD for a boot drive, and a little more money for a bigger SSD for your applications drive. The speed increase and change from HDD is night and day.

Then get multiple large HDD's for storing movies, photos, mp3's; etc... with enough room to back everything up.
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This is interesting and something I have been wanting to ask about. Is the SSD technology like having a large 64 gig cahce? or is that something different entirely? I want to make it a good fast computer for gaming. So if you know that it will help, then I am all ears. Thanks for the input!!
Sumo said:
I would suggest you go with one higher end card than two lower end cards.
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Thank you for writing. I am having a hard time picking graphics cards. However I do know that it needs to be an nVidia card because I want to use "nVidia 3d vision technology." So if you can recommend a great (nVidia) graphics card, then I would really really appreciate it!!

Once again, thanks everyone for your input! I do appreciate it!
 
Simple, If you have the money buy anything you like and stick it in. Even if you will use it or not! its only money after all!
 
Sumo said:
I would suggest you go with one higher end card than two lower end cards.
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Okay I took the total dollar amount from the two EVGA Gefore GTX 560 ($190) and added them together, which is $380. Since I was going to spend $380 on graphics, I might as well get one card for around that amount. This is a great idea because if I decide to add more graphics power in the future, I will now have a free PCI Express slot to do so. Thank you for the help Sumo, your suggestion is pure gold!!

Now, please tell me what you think about:
EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD 2560MB

That card is only about $15 dollars more than the $380 dollar amount, so I figured, whats $15 more dollars anyway?

(y) I am really starting to like the parts list and the price for everything. Not hard on my wallet and it should be a great machine for my video games. I just hope that the system will be able to play games like BF3 and Star Wars: TOR.

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions!!
 
Andrew said:
This is interesting and something I have been wanting to ask about. Is the SSD technology like having a large 64 gig cahce? or is that something different entirely? I want to make it a good fast computer for gaming. So if you know that it will help, then I am all ears. Thanks for the input!!
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64GB should be large enough for a boot drive.
Then get a 128GB or 2 128GB SSD's put in raid 0 for your application drive. Or, if you can swing it 2 256GB in raid 0. Applications will then load almost instantaneously.

Forget about the whole cache thing. You will dread having a small SSD and it doesn't really help for loading applications.
 
Andrew said:
Okay I took the total dollar amount from the two EVGA Gefore GTX 560 ($190) and added them together, which is $380. Since I was going to spend $380 on graphics, I might as well get one card for around that amount. This is a great idea because if I decide to add more graphics power in the future, I will now have a free PCI Express slot to do so. Thank you for the help Sumo, your suggestion is pure gold!!

Now, please tell me what you think about:
EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD 2560MB

That card is only about $15 dollars more than the $380 dollar amount, so I figured, whats $15 more dollars anyway?

(y) I am really starting to like the parts list and the price for everything. Not hard on my wallet and it should be a great machine for my video games. I just hope that the system will be able to play games like BF3 and Star Wars: TOR.

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions!!
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Been using that card now for 3 months and must say it has no issues with mw3, bf3 or anything else I throw at it, smooth as could be running @ 1920x1200 res. Nice to see those cards back in stock, really want another to SLI. The rest of my build is about 3-4 years old, i7-940, Cosair-850, 6gb RAM, EVGA x58 SLI.
 
Andrew said:
Okay I took the total dollar amount from the two EVGA Gefore GTX 560 ($190) and added them together, which is $380. Since I was going to spend $380 on graphics, I might as well get one card for around that amount. This is a great idea because if I decide to add more graphics power in the future, I will now have a free PCI Express slot to do so. Thank you for the help Sumo, your suggestion is pure gold!!

Now, please tell me what you think about:
EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD 2560MB

That card is only about $15 dollars more than the $380 dollar amount, so I figured, whats $15 more dollars anyway?

(y) I am really starting to like the parts list and the price for everything. Not hard on my wallet and it should be a great machine for my video games. I just hope that the system will be able to play games like BF3 and Star Wars: TOR.

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions!!
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I was originally going to get the 570 however I ended up going with the 580 for my build. They are similar cards and I love mine. The 570 will be fine for BF3/Tor aslong as you don't play on an insanely high resolution like 2560x1600.
 
Unless you plan on doing anything video capture related... such as encoding video, or streaming your gaming sessions, there is no reason to get an i7. Get an i5.
 
Andrew said:
Okay I took the total dollar amount from the two EVGA Gefore GTX 560 ($190) and added them together, which is $380. Since I was going to spend $380 on graphics, I might as well get one card for around that amount. This is a great idea because if I decide to add more graphics power in the future, I will now have a free PCI Express slot to do so. Thank you for the help Sumo, your suggestion is pure gold!!

Now, please tell me what you think about:
EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD 2560MB

That card is only about $15 dollars more than the $380 dollar amount, so I figured, whats $15 more dollars anyway?

(y) I am really starting to like the parts list and the price for everything. Not hard on my wallet and it should be a great machine for my video games. I just hope that the system will be able to play games like BF3 and Star Wars: TOR.

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions!!
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I'd suggest you to not get an HD, and if you're going to go for a single card you should rather go for a 580 than a 570. I got to 570 HD and their performance is not bad but it ain't that great either. Better either SLI 580's or one 590 if you're really into enthusiastic gaming/video stuff.
 
I want to thank everyone on their input! I sincerely appreciate all the info. I have more to post, but tonight, I am tired. Good night cool XenForo people of the internet!
 
I have put many, many, many hours doing research on this and I have come up with a parts list that is well worth the money and also offers lots expansion in the graphics department. Please keep in mind that I am building this computer for nVidia 3D surround, which is a 3+ monitor real time 3D immersion game play experience.




Price: $1,553
  1. COOLER MASTER CM Storm Series Trooper (SGC-5000-KKN1) Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case ($150)
  2. EVGA Z68 FTW 160-SB-E689-KR LGA 1155 Intel Z68 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard ($245)
  3. EVGA 025-P3-1579-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) HD 2560MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card ($395)
  4. COUGAR CMX 1000 COUGAR-1000CMX 1000W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply ($180)
  5. Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I52500K ($230)
  6. G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-17000CL11D-8GBXL ($70)
  7. Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive ($125)
  8. LITE-ON DVD Burner - Bulk Black SATA Model iHAS124-04 - OEM ($18)
  9. Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit - OEM ($140)
Advantages:
  • Case is big. Plenty of room for future water cooling projects. Looks cool too :D
  • Mother board supports 3-way sli. Great for adding additional graphics cards as I can afford them.
  • EVGA GeForce GTX 570 supports nVidia surround in total 3d immersion. I know I need additional cards to support additional monitors. 2.5 GB GDDR5 320 bit.
  • Power supply is modular and great for future upgrades and wire management. Wires are pre-sleeved for looks. :p
  • Intel Core i5 can be clocked higher when I purchase water cooling equipment in future projects.
Questions:
Planned Projects:
  • Add 2x additional graphics cards (EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX 570 2.5gb). This is for better performance from nVidia 3d surround with 3x 120hz monitors all displaying a 3d image.
  • Add water cooling for aditional performance and to increase the parts life-span. And some light over clocking of GPU and CPU. CPU and GPU will not run in same (water cooling) loop.
  • SDD Raid 0 setup.
  • Buy 2x additional 3d monitors.
Please tell me what you think of this build. I am pretty satisfied with the price and the ability to upgrade parts as I can afford them. Please let me know what you would do in my case of the HDD vs SSD problem stated above.
Thanks again for reading,
Andrew
 
Overall that looks pretty good just some things I noticed about your future plans.

Anything over 2 graphics cards is not worth it imo. A second gpu will give you around an average of 50-60% boost ontop of the first card while a third GPU will only give you another 10-25% performance increase. You are better off getting 2 higher end cards. Plus you will have less heat and use less power. Now these numbers are for non-3d I have no clue how sli affects 3d.

Water cooling really will not be needed if you are only doing light overclocking. Just invest in a high quality air cooler. You will still be able to overclock well and avoid a lot of pain.
 

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