Planning on buying a new rig.

Build is now ordered! Thanks to all those who helped me in this thread

Yay! Today I Finally recieved my system! Man I love it, and so much place for further building ^^
Thanks again all for helping me!
FPS are off the charts!!

Check my system specs

Wow, this is the second post in the past few weeks about people who want to spend nearly $5,000 on a computer. I mean with that much money it seems the sky is the limit and you can really do just about anything that you could possibly want. Personally, I don't think that I could even spend that much money on a single rig.

I priced out a dream machine on Cyberpowerpc.com for around $4000, though I can't afford it

It included the top AMD 6-core, 8GB RAM, a 4GB 5970 (dual 2gb GFX cards), a small SSD for the OS, 2 HDD's, blu-ray burner, DVD burner, 7 Ultimate and Office 2010

My current PC is from Cyberpowerpc, purchased in spring 2008, and works beautifully - they offer AMD & Intel builds

Spidey1976 said:

It included the top AMD 6-core

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The problem with that is the top AMD 6 core only performs about as good as the middle of the road Intel 4 core (Core i5-750).

I personally get all of my parts from NewEgg. For best performance, invest in an SSD drive for your OS. With your budget this would not be a problem

Hehe. Well it's about priorities i guess
I really don't do much exept sitting on my computer.

Okey Here is my system details so far:

Intel® Core™ i7 960 Quad Core Processor (3.2GHz, 8MB Cache)
Dual 2GB GDDR5 ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 CrossfireX™ Enabled
6GB DDR3 1866MHz (3x 2GB) Tri Channel Memory
1.2TB RAID 0 (2x 640GB SATA-II, 7,200 RPM, 16MB Cache HDDs)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
PSU on 1100 Watt.
Liquid Cooling.

I don't really need a stronger processor do I?
I mean with this graphic setup and all, I don't really see the point in paying so much more for a i7 xtreme.
Please let me know what you think.

Why Liquid Cooling? Do you have a plan to substantially overclock...because without that....liquid cooling just isn't really worth the effort.

Do you need a stronger processor? Hard to tell, but based on what you have said thus far....I think a core i5-750 would fit the bill and provide more than enough power. I don't see any reason you need to spend more than about $2000-$2500 on this computer.

Well i would like to have a i7 ^^

I don't need liquid cooling with an i7 and crossfire 5970's ?

Hmm just looked at cyberpowerpc.com, it has very good prices, with the same specs i saved about 500 bucks from the last site I checked

hawkin90 said:

Hmm just looked at cyberpowerpc.com, it has very good prices, with the same specs i saved about 500 bucks from the last site I checked

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Do you plan to buy this built, or do you plan to purchase the parts yourself and do the assembly?

I'm going to buy it built

Okey I have now pressed it down to 3800$
I'm pretty satisfied with this, let me know what you think.
I'm going with liquid cooling as I'm going to have a 20% overclock on the system the whole time.

Case: Coolermaster HAF-X Gaming Full Tower Case w/ 1x230mm Red LED Fan, 1x200mm Fans, 2xFront USB 3.0 Port
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-970 3.20 GHz 12M Intel Smart Cache LGA1366 [+330]
Venom Boost Fast And Efficient Factory Overclocking: Extreme OC (Extreme Overclock 20% or more)
Cooling Fan: CyberPower Xtreme Hydro Liquid Cooling Kit 240MM w/ Dual Fan(CPU & GPU Liquid Cool Capable, Extreme Overclcking Performance + Extreme Slient at 18dBA)
Motherboard: * (3-Way SLI Support) GigaByte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Ultra Durable™3 Triple-Channel DDR3/1600 ATX Mainboard w/ 7.1 Dolby Audio, eSATA, GbLAN, USB3.0, 2 x SATA-III RAID, IEEE1394a, 4 Gen2 PCIe, 2 PCIe X1 & 1 PCI
Memory: 12GB (2GBx6) DDR3/1800MHz Triple Channel Memory Module [+207] (Kingston Hyper-X [+54])
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card [+336] (Major Brand Powered by ATI)
Video Card 2: ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card [+675] (Major Brand Powered by ATI)
Multiple Video Card Settings: Xtreme Performance in SLI/CrossFireX Gaming Mode Supports Single Monitor
Power Supply Upgrade: 1,100 Watts - CyberPowerPC Gaming Power Supply SLI/CrossFireX Ready [+41]
Hard Drive: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive)
Sound: Creative Labs SB X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series PCI Express Sound Card [+199]
Flash Media Reader/Writer: INTERNAL 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer (BLACK COLOR)

Total = 3855$

I have the same MB and CPU (i7-920). The 920 has a reputation as a great overclocker.

pparks1 said:

... For best performance, invest in an SSD drive for your OS...

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I'm with pparks1 on this one. That's the only big hole I see in the system you just listed.

Okey. I will do that. Do i keep anything installed on the SSD? as I see it's pretty small..i mean games and stuff. And it's pretty expensive too. How big SSD do I need?
So no other problems in the system? Don't want any unpleasant surprises

The SSD should be your boot drive and have all your programs on it. Keep the 1TB drive you listed for data storage.

Best of both worlds.

Games and programs? Or just programs?

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Okey. I will do that. Do i keep anything installed on the SSD? as I see it's pretty small..i mean games and stuff. And it's pretty expensive too. How big SSD do I need?
So no other problems in the system? Don't want any unpleasant surprises

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If you have $5000 to spend on a computer, an SSD is not really expensive. So, honestly...what type of budget are you really dealing with.

I can press it up under 5grand, but I don't want to. Right now with a SSD I'm tipping 4000$ I don't want to go any higher that that ^^

hawkin90 said:

Games and programs? Or just programs?

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Games are programs.

(They're just more fun than most other ones.)

lol damn it! I just noticed they don't ship international
Them I'm screwed. Do you guys know of any international sites with this kind of configure and build style?

I'm in the US and couldn't be of much help. Here's a bump so maybe someone who can will be along.

Yeah, this really suck. Too bad they don't have an international site. I mean the closest I can come to this is alienware from dell, and those are over 1000$ more for the same system