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Doomedspeeds is the same as mine just white
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Not exactly.. There are a few differences.
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Not exactly.. There are a few differences.
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Not exactly.. There are a few differences.
Yeah different case, lack of Raid 0 unlike me but same storage volume
, you picked lighting I wanted to just used the led's in the components on this build to pop up on the smoked windows in livid light, you picked a greated volume of RAM 
(yum) and my GPU tho slower at stock look better imho and your missing braided cables where is my SATA cable dude!
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Doomedspeeds is the same as mine just white
Why do you need an Blueray drive?? I use Sky "NOW" box office or netflix and not touched a disk in years ..... apart from today to install Windows XP on my sisters netbook.
I'm just not a green kind of guy.
Still quite a bit of shows and films I can't legally get with Netflix and such and its always good to have an offline option when the intertubes get clogged up in this backwater.
Might just keep using the old PS3 for that tho.
I'll probably plug in the 780Ti for now and grab another one a few months down the line. Just wondering if that 850W psu is enough for that.
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Yeah 850w will be fine for 2 Ti's.
Can you get a white one?
Can you get a white one?
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I dont think there is a white 780ti on the market yet, mid jan I think kfa2 will.
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Depending on the final budget and how long I can go without food I will be able to order on the 10th or 17th of Jan.
So I might just get the white one.
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Had another question about the motherboard.
The boards offered in the various builds range from £120 to almost £300.
I've always been kind of a noob when it comes to hardware, but it's easy enough to look up benchmarks and such for most parts. Not sure how to evaluate the boards themselves tho.
I guess the expensive ones offer quad sli but that is not something I am planning to use anyway, so are there any other advantages?
For example, what advantage would the Asus Rampage IV Formula Intel X79 have over the Gigabyte Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 in a build with max 2 graphics cards?
The boards offered in the various builds range from £120 to almost £300.
I've always been kind of a noob when it comes to hardware, but it's easy enough to look up benchmarks and such for most parts. Not sure how to evaluate the boards themselves tho.
I guess the expensive ones offer quad sli but that is not something I am planning to use anyway, so are there any other advantages?
For example, what advantage would the Asus Rampage IV Formula Intel X79 have over the Gigabyte Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 in a build with max 2 graphics cards?
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Well firstly those two specific motyhboards are different socket, so accept different CPU's
The X79 (2011) board supports SB-E/IB-E Chips like the 3820/4820k/3930k/4930k ect.. while the Z87 supports Haswell chips only (4670k/4770k)
GPU wise the X79 offers x16/x16 PCI-E banfdwidth while the Z87X offers x8/x8, that being said, there is very little difference between them.
More expensive boards will also have better overclocking and power regulation features. This doesn't mean you WILL get a higher overclock (because that is based on the silicon lottery) but its meant for enthusiasts who want to push for the most out of their hardware.
As i guess you can see too, the 2011 motherboards can have 8 RAM slots, which means you could run 64GB of RAM easy. Though you'll never really need that (as you're not running a render farm). The way i've specced you, you can put another 16GB in at a later date for 32gb of 2666mhz RAM (crazy!).
The X79 (2011) board supports SB-E/IB-E Chips like the 3820/4820k/3930k/4930k ect.. while the Z87 supports Haswell chips only (4670k/4770k)
GPU wise the X79 offers x16/x16 PCI-E banfdwidth while the Z87X offers x8/x8, that being said, there is very little difference between them.
More expensive boards will also have better overclocking and power regulation features. This doesn't mean you WILL get a higher overclock (because that is based on the silicon lottery) but its meant for enthusiasts who want to push for the most out of their hardware.
As i guess you can see too, the 2011 motherboards can have 8 RAM slots, which means you could run 64GB of RAM easy. Though you'll never really need that (as you're not running a render farm). The way i've specced you, you can put another 16GB in at a later date for 32gb of 2666mhz RAM (crazy!).