After Opinions on new rig final decision

[timholt]

I have been hanging off upgrading for CoD and RoF. The computer will only be used for these 2 sims, so huge storage is not an issue. I am now near the final solution as follows:

Intel Core i7 2600 3.4GH s1155
QuadCore/Turbo3.8GHz/LGA1155 OR

the i7 2500 as I believe the 2600 does not give gamers any extra benefit over the 2500

Asus P8P67-M pro P67 B3 Rev i7 i5 i3 LGA 1155 DDR3USB Motherboard OR

Gigabyte GA-H67A-UD3H MB Socket 1155, Intel H67 Chipset, 4x DDR3
SATA3, SATA2, USB3.0, Firewire, HD Audio,Crossfire,ATX

3 x Corsair (or similar quality) 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Unbuffered CL 9 DIMM
Vengeance Performance

Either WD VelociRaptor 300GB 10K SATA, OR

A-RAM SSD Alpha 128GB 2.5" MLC SSD, up to170/100MB/s, SATA II 3.0 Gb/s + USB2, ECC

Sumsung DVD player/Burner sata

Antec DF-30 Case

800W "Gigabyte" ODIN GT Power Supply, 140mm Fan, PCI-E(6+2) Pin, 6x SATA, SOFTWARE FANS CONTROL, SLI-Ready

Win7 Pro 64 bit

Palit GF GTX 560Ti PCI-E 2.0 2048MB DDR5 256-bit (MUST BE 2048MB) 822/4008MHz, 2x Dual-Link DVI,VGA, HDMI, Fan OR

the 570

Opinions most welcome.

[335th_GRAthos]

Nice Hardware,

my recomendation, get a bit higher Wattage for power supply, 1000 - 1100W is safer when you will put in two GPUs one day (happens fast).


Flight Simulations are the first thing that can use twing graphics cards so make sure you have a double (or tripple) SLI or CROSSFIRE motherboard.
Definitively, I would not buy a CROSSFIRE motherboard and put an NV card there (you will not be able to put a second NV card and SLI it).

The next question is what kind of DirectX the games you play use (or OpenGL).
I am a NV fun myself (because the original IL2FB was running better in OpenGL and there NVidia was better) but I believe ATI is more advance in DirectX nowadays (I maybe wrong).

These new twin core GPUs seems to be the easy step to get high performance, I would recommend that you go this way first, it is easier (only one card) and cheaper (the twin card is approx 30% percent cheaper than two single cards).


~S~

[timholt]

Put a deposit on this this morning

Intel i5 2500K

Gigabyte GA-P67A UD4 B3 MB

8GB Corsair 1600Mh RAM

Corsair Force series 120GB SSD

Samsung DVD Burner

Antex DF-30 case

Gigabyte odin 800W PSU

SF Win7 Pro 64

Galaxy GF GTX 580 1.5GB card

Logitec keyboard and mouse

Assembly and test

Total $2,049

Total $2,049

[CharveL]

Id recommend ditching the extra 4gb stick ram (won't add anything for a gaming only machine - 8gb is overkill) and the hard drive. Put that coin into a 120gb SSD sata3 drive. You'll see 6 second CoD boot up times and it's plenty for OS, your two games and a bunch of other software if you like. Plus system boots around half the time. Maybe keep a smaller HD as data/pron backup. ;)

The CPU is nice but after the issues are worked out of the CoD engine which is currently vid memory bottlenecked, I think we'll see it go back to CPU dependancy. If that 920 overclocks to 4+ ghz you're good. My i5-750 is a lot cheaper and goes to 3.8 or even 4+ without additional cooling necessary but lacks hyperthreading which isn't going to add much if at all anyway.

Other than that it looks good if maybe a bit pricier than need be.

[timholt]

There is a Corsair 120GB SATA 2 SSD on the list, is the SATA 3 really that much difference?