Planning on buying a new rig.

[hawkin90]

Maybe I can use a service such as http://viaadress.com ?

 

[profdlp]

viaddress seems to be rated as OK. Not having tried it I couldn't really tell you.

 

[hawkin90]

I mean if it's not too expensive it's more than worth it.
Much better than paying out 1000$ more than I need.
Damn it, and I had the super setup too, you are lucky living where you do.

 

[smarteyeball]

So no other problems in the system? Don't want any unpleasant surprises

Other than finding a company that builds this type of rig, you'd be wasting money on two 5970's.

Quadfire scales badly (cards don't get fully used) and Tri/Quadfire + Eyefinity still does not work properly.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33961074

Plus a CPU @ 3.2 will bottleneck two 5970's.

For single screen gaming, a trifire setup would be more 'practical' ie 5970+5870.

 

[Fumz]

hawkin,

Dude, you are seriously just wasting money. Two 5970's! C'mon man, your screens resolution is only 1920x1080... but you're buying like your entire wall is filled with monitors. The sad part about all this dreaming is that for 1/4 the price guys are getting the same game performance that you will. The machine will only be good for one purpose: to make guys drool on forums... and that's only going to last a few months, at best. At worse, you'll feel like a fool when you come to the realization that about $3,000.00 was just wasted.

Stop... breathe... reconsider.

920, X58, 5970, 6GB's and an SSD are all you need to get the best game performance possible at 1920x1080. Anything more could be better utilized in Vegas... or Gstaad.

 

[hawkin90]

Okey. I might have overdone it
It's easy to spend a lot when you have a lot.
So one 5970 is enough?

 

[Spidey1976]

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

When I spec'd out it was actually only $100 more for cyberpowerpc to build it over me doing it myself from NewEgg... plus I found a code for 5% off at the time and saved about $100 - ended up washing out That really sucks about non-international... sorry

 

[hawkin90]

Yeah really does. And I don't know if I can trust any of these US adress sites...

 

[hawkin90]

I found a good site finally in norway. What about a crossfire 5870 setup? Is that any good?

 

[hawkin90]

Okey. New system up.
What do you think?

Corsair Obsidian 800D Big Tower Sort
Corsair HX 1000W PSU
Intel Core™ i7 Quad Processor i7-960
ASUS Rampage III Extreme, X58
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 6GB CL9
XFX Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5
XFX Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5
Lite-On DVD+RW burner IHAS124-19
WD VelociRaptor® 300GB SATA
Western Digital Caviar® GreenPower™ 1TB
Creative X-FI TITANIUM

 

[steve-pressman]

You are still missing the fastest part of the the system and that would be a SSD Drive.

Where in the world are you anyway?

Steve

 

[hawkin90]

I'm in Norway.

Okey. New specs: What you think?

Corsair Obsidian 800D Big Tower Black
Corsair HX 1000W PSU
Intel Core™ i7 Quad Processor i7-960
ASUS Rampage III Extreme, X58
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 12GB CL9
XFX Radeon HD 5970 2GB GDDR5
Lite-On DVD+RW burner IHAS124-19
Intel X25-M SSD 80GB 2,5", Retail
OEM SSD 2.5" to 3.5" Bracket SATA
Western Digital Caviar® GreenPower™ 1TB
Creative X-FI TITANIUM

$4000

 

[pparks1]

I usually get lost in the translation of currency and such and costs in two different places. For me, in the states, the above config from NewEgg comes out to about $2900. Which is a beast of a machine as far as I am concerned. And that's only about 1/2 of what your original budget of $5,000...so you can understand why I was a bit confused as to how you would spend that much money.

It should be a very strong machine based on those specs.

 

[hawkin90]

Yes I have noticed the US has cheaper computers in all the stores I've been too. This is the lowest price I can get in my country. I've been in so to say every electronic store there is, and this is the one with the best prices.
I am actually pretty happy as this is a good price for a norwegian site, expensive as hell here
I know I should probably buy the parts and build it, but I don't know enough. And I like the thought of professionals building it
I'm also looking forward to getting rid of the dell system.
And the corsair obsidian looks like it rocks

 

[steve-pressman]

You might want to look at the specs of this beast it come out to around you budget and I know they ship to Europe/ Scandinavia.


"Ultima Carbon" Intel Core i7 980X 3.33GHz @ 4.20GHz SLI DDR3 System [] Pro Gamer - Ultima


Steve

 

[hawkin90]

That rig looks great. Is a SLI 480 gtx a better setup?
Looks a little pricy though, i mean 3500english pounds are what? 6000$ ?

 

[steve-pressman]

It works out at today's exchange rate at $5345.55

or in your money 33.418 Kroner



They have more Rigs here

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=43&catid=1444

Steve

 

[hawkin90]

Yeah, nice system, but I don't have the budget for it
Do I really need a 1000w psu for the rig I have now?
I mean isn't 850w enough for one 5970 and a i7 960?

 

[profdlp]

...I know I should probably buy the parts and build it, but I don't know enough. And I like the thought of professionals building it...

It is easier than you think and there are professionals here to help you every step of the way.

 

[hawkin90]

yeah I know it probably is.
But I'm going for a builded system.

Any more sites like that steve-pressman?