New Rig

parabellum said:

2 GTS 450's are too slow for that price, for that system you should have/need at least a pair of 470's or a pair of 6870's. More to the point, you can build an Intel or AMD system that will be just as good for half the price. What is the PSU? Rail info? Its more important than the rest of the system.

I may scale down to 6gigs of ram and have dual gtx470's and a Thermaltake 875 Watts Toughpower XT 875W Modular 80 Plus PSU

StoneHeart said:

parabellum said:

2 GTS 450's are too slow for that price, for that system you should have/need at least a pair of 470's or a pair of 6870's. More to the point, you can build an Intel or AMD system that will be just as good for half the price. What is the PSU? Rail info? Its more important than the rest of the system.

I may scale down to 6gigs of ram and have dual gtx470's and a Thermaltake 875 Watts Toughpower XT 875W Modular 80 Plus PSU

Much better. I would get an Enermax Galaxy 1050w for those GPU's. There is also the choice of a single GTX 580. Have you considered building this system? It would come out quite a bit cheaper.

linnemeyerhere said:

Yeah 2 GTS 450's and 12gb of ram and a top line i7, it better be used for some serious fun and powerful computing.
When you get it you should open it up and clean up the cable routing take pictures and send them in under the "show us your rig" Also if any openings don't have optional fans I would fill them with high quality fans.

I will probably put in some fans, and I am having pro wiring done inside by Cyberpower. I will definitely put up some photos, believe me, this system is all I've been thinking about for the past week.

parabellum said:

StoneHeart said:

parabellum said:

2 GTS 450's are too slow for that price, for that system you should have/need at least a pair of 470's or a pair of 6870's. More to the point, you can build an Intel or AMD system that will be just as good for half the price. What is the PSU? Rail info? Its more important than the rest of the system.

I may scale down to 6gigs of ram and have dual gtx470's and a Thermaltake 875 Watts Toughpower XT 875W Modular 80 Plus PSU

Much better. I would get an Enermax Galaxy 1050w for those GPU's. There is also the choice of a single GTX 580. Have you considered building this system? It would come out quite a bit cheaper.

Just reconsidered, how about this:

CASE: NZXT Phantom Full Tower Gaming Case High Performance Cooling with Integrated Fan Controller
CD: 24X Double Layer DVD±RW Super Allwrite + Lightscribe Technology
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-980X FAN: Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System
HDD: 500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache HDD
MEMORY: 6GB (3x2GB) PC12800 DDR3/1600mhz Corsair XMS3
MOTHERBOARD: Asus P6X58D-E
POWERSUPPLY:Thermaltake 875 Watts Toughpower XT 875W Modular 80 Plus
GRAPHICS: 2x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 1GB

P.S. I can't build the system myself because I can't pay upfront, I'm paying over 4 years which is why I wan't such a powerful configuration so I don't have to upgrade much, but I will upgrade RAM and some other stuff once I save a little, and please don't tell me to wait for Sandy Bridge, I honestly dont see the point, the 980X will last me along time before I need 8 cores

Why would pay 1000 for that CPU and then unbalance it with 300 worth of GPU's? Take a look at the system in my specs. Its 60% cheaper than what you are considering and has no problems with any game (console port) on the market.

parabellum said:

Why would pay 1000 for that CPU and then unbalance it with 300 worth of GPU's? Take a look at the system in my specs. Its 60% cheaper than what you are considering and has no problems with any game (console port) on the market.

Read my previous message and visit this page http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/sa...aspx?id=253648

StoneHeart said:

parabellum said:

Why would pay 1000 for that CPU and then unbalance it with 300 worth of GPU's? Take a look at the system in my specs. Its 60% cheaper than what you are considering and has no problems with any game (console port) on the market.

Read my previous message.

You will be chained to one PC for 4 years? I'd reconsider buying it at all. If you do heavy encoding work you can have someone build a PC for 500 pounds which will more than suffice for that and won't need to be upgraded. But 4 years? Even the 980X will be outdated by then.

parabellum said:

StoneHeart said:

parabellum said:

Why would pay 1000 for that CPU and then unbalance it with 300 worth of GPU's? Take a look at the system in my specs. Its 60% cheaper than what you are considering and has no problems with any game (console port) on the market.

Read my previous message.

You will be chained to one PC for 4 years? I'd reconsider buying it at all. If you do heavy encoding work you can have someone build a PC for 500 pounds which will more than suffice for that and won't need to be upgraded. But 4 years? Even the 980X will be outdated by then.

Please please don't give me financial advice. I've used the system i currently own (see specs) for a long time and it can still run modern games quite well, and like I said I can upgrade as I go along.