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badaaang

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I come back from vacation last Sunday with a illness, a rig illness, I decided to change my pc......
I never build my own, so please comment my choices......

From the start I select Intel, i7 but there is 2 generation
970/$550, 980/$550, 980X/$835 and 990X/$970 for the 1rst gen and the 2600/$310 for the 2nd gen.
The extreme version (X) are too expensive, since i have a budget of 2.5K.
So the 980 seems a good compromise.

I look at ASUS Rampage III extreme ($366) and black edition ($533)
I pick the extreme edition.

Memory 12G
Corsair Dominator 1600mHz($178) or 2000MHz($292)

Video card
I decided to stick with AMD rather than Nvidia....
Radeon 6970 seems a nice compromise with 2G, 890MHz GPU @ $370
Nvidia price is high for 580, 590 and 580X
So SAPPHIRE HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 100311-2SR VIDEO CARD
No sound card
Cooling CORSAIR CWCH70 Hydro Water Cooler LGA775, LGA1366, LGA1156, AM2/AM3 High-Performance CPU Cooler

1 x Intel Core I7 980 3.33GHz BX80613I7980 Processors 560.68$
1 x ASUS RAMPAGE III EXTREME LGA1366 DDR3 MOTHERBOARD ATX 366.08$
1 x Corsair Dominator 12GB DDR3 1600MHZ CMP12GX3M3A1600C9 Memory 178.20$
2 x WD Caviar™ Black™ WD1002FAEX 1 TB SATA 6.0GB/s HDD 80.25$
1 x SAPPHIRE HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 100311-2SR VIDEO CARD 366.76$
1 x Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio 0.00$
1 x LG CH12LS28 12X Blu-Ray Reader & Lightscribe SATA Combo Drive 77.00$
1 x CORSAIR CWCH70 Hydro Water Cooler LGA775, LGA1366, LGA1156, AM2/AM3 High-Performance CPU Cooler 109.99$
1 x Thermaltake TRX-1000M 1000W Power Supply 172.50$
1 x ANTEC Dark Fleet DF35 ATX Gaming Case 98.93$
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit English 1PK DVD OEM (GFC-00599) 95.00$
Total Price : 2185.64$

Ill set the HD in RAID0
pricing is in $CDN from https://www.pcczone.com/index.php Seems cheaper than newegg and i can pick up the stock to save on shipping.
They offer a assembling service with testing and 6 month garantee for $90. I'm not sure about it.....

What do you guy think?
 
Your actually close enough to take advantage of the 2011 platform hexacores. So unless your buying tomorrow might hold up see if the sandy bridge offerings arent insane.

It really is going to depend on how long for you. 28nm Radeons are supposed to be out by the end of the year and 2011 sandy bridge as well. I dont have a choice but to build now myself since i dont have a machine capable of playing any new games.
 
1. Are you going to be overclocking? If you are then 12g of ram makes that more difficult.
2. Why not get a SSD for your OS and one HD for storage?
3. You might want to wait until September-ATI is supposed to have the next generation of video cards out at the end of the month. Otherwise, the 6970's a good choice.
4. Have you considered the Coolermaster HAF cases? They're very roomy, well built, and provide the best air flow for keeping things cool.

Great choices on the MB, and PSU.
 
Your actually close enough to take advantage of the 2011 platform hexacores. So unless your buying tomorrow might hold up see if the sandy bridge offerings arent insane.
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From what I keep reading these won't be out until March or April 2012.
 
Why not the i7-2600? For $300.00 less its performance is just barely under that of the 980. That would mean getting away from the x58 board, but the price difference would let you get into the next gen high end board.
 
First, Thanks all for the feedback, really constructive even if I have to rebuilt it :)
Better now than after...

@ChivoX - Not sure I see a 300 saving.

@Chuck - I did read more about it and you are right..... They seems to be lot of good advise for 2600K. Also the saving could turn in a 2nd graphic card...

@Sixer
1. Are you going to be overclocking? If you are then 12g of ram makes that more difficult.
Not sure I understand the issue with 12G.....Maybe I should read about overclocking.....

2. Why not get a SSD for your OS and one HD for storage?
Looking at it. Thanks for the heads-up
3. You might want to wait until September-ATI is supposed to have the next generation of video cards out at the end of the month. Otherwise, the 6970's a good choice.
Difficult choice.....
4. Have you considered the Coolermaster HAF cases? They're very roomy, well built, and provide the best air flow for keeping things cool.
looking at it. Thanks.
 
If you go with the 2600k, that's a different chipset that utilizes the SSD speeds way better than the X58 chipset does-definitely get a SATA III SSD for either the P67 Z68 chipset with the 2600k cpu, you will never ever regret it!

Here's an example of the HAF 932 case I have. You can see how roomy it is and it fits the XL motherboards just fine or dul gpu video cards. In these pictures I have the Rampage III motherboard, the GTX 580 and an Enermax 1050W power supply-lots and lots of room :)

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Definitely recommend the HAF 932 series of cases. They are truly awesome. 12Gb of RAM is a little much for your needs 8Gb is more than enough for the needs of gaming and pretty much anything else. I'm a fan of going with the Pro sderies of Windows too. Its only a little more and will give you some added features. SSD would help speed up all your applications as well as boot ups. Speaking of HDD's why 2 instead of 3 for a RAID config? Is it just for storage ?
 
Bob if he goes X58 its ideally either 6 or 12 or going only 2 sticks otherwise were mismatching and or i am not familiar if x58 does dual channel or its only triple channel. Its kinda why i laugh at the x58 guys when they tell me to use 6gb of ram lol.
 
the chip is Z68 and support dual channel so it is 4, 8 or 16G
 
New one:
Corsair Force Series 3 CSSD-F120GB3-BK 120GB SSD 2.5" SATA HDD

1 x Intel I7-2600K 3.4GHz Sandy Bridge LGA1155 Quad Core BX80623I72600K Processor 304.43$
1 x ASUS MAXIMUS IV EXTREME-Z LGA1155 DDR3 MOTHERBOARD EATX 352.80$
1 x Corsair Dominator 8GB DDR3 1600MHZ CMP8GX3M2A1600C9 Memory 138.24$
3 x WD Caviarâ„¢ Blackâ„¢ WD1002FAEX 1 TB SATA 6.0GB/s HDD 80.25$
1 x XFX Radeonâ„¢ HD 6970 2GB DDR5 DisplayPort HD-697A-CNFC Video Card 371.00$
1 x Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio 0.00$
1 x LG CH12LS28 12X Blu-Ray Reader & Lightscribe SATA Combo Drive 77.00$
1 x CORSAIR CWCH70 Hydro Water Cooler LGA775, LGA1366, LGA1156, AM2/AM3 High-Performance CPU Cooler 109.99$
1 x Thermaltake Grand TPG-1050M 1050W Power Supply 237.88$
1 x Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced Full Tower RC-932-KKN5-GP 154.00$
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 PRO 64-bit English 1PK DVD OEM (FQC-00765) 154.09$

Total Price : 2368$
 
Put it this way, if you plan on overclocking stic to a 2500k the 2600k is a waste to me when you can almost get everything with the 2500k as well as the 2600k but if your not overclocking stick with the 2600 or 2500 but only if your OC get the K series if someone didnt say already plus get the extreme board its the number one rated oc motherboard if your going that route if not a z68 will do you fine
 
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