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I will soon be spending £1000 to £1200 on a new build to replace my PC of 6 years finally. However, despite endless revisions, I can't settle on a few things. I'll put a more specific memory questions in the memory threads, but the rest I'm going to put here since it's mostly a matter of experience and opinion.
First off, motherboards, I've read a lot of praise for both the Asus P6X58D-E and the Asus Rampage III Gene. Initially I was settled on the Gene, but the PSX58D-E is cheaper, has more power phases on the CPU socket, and what appears to be more PCI-e x16 sockets despite some massively confusing uncertainty surrounding this point (the 3rd socket only has one lane? Doesn't that negate the x16 bit then?), but the Gene had some surprisingly excellent overclocking potential, one reviewer boasting about it as being the best 1366 board they've ever overclocked, if only by a bit. It also out preformed the Extreme on numerous game tests. So simply, which is the better of the two? I intend to install a full liquid cooling system and OC the CPU, RAM and anything else that will stay stable and cool-ish.
Secondly, I am sort of paddling in little circles trying to choose a damned GPU. It's been "reduced" to the MSI GeForce GTX 480 1536Mb, two Palit GeForce GTX 460 Sonic 2048MB in SLi, or two HIS ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB in Crossfire. The crossfire 5770s have, as you know, preformed phenomenally in benchmarking, destroying competition many times more costly than themselves( at least purely in FPS), so they're a huge spanner in the works. When it comes down to it, do two 5770's in Crossfire really compete with the high end Fermi cards? Using 3D in the future is also a possibility, but not for some time, currently the cards would be running on a 1920 x 1200 screen through HDMI at 60Hz.
Finally, simply requesting your professional and educated opinion on the overall quality and logic of the build, if you would.
The rest of the build that's certain (in so far) is:
CPU: Intel i7 950
RAM: OCZ Gold 6Gb DDR3 @ 2000Mhz (10-10-10-20)
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA-3
Optical: LiteOn iHBS112 12x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive
Case: Coolermaster Storm Scout Gaming Case
PSU: Cooler Master GX 750W
I'm throwing everything into this first build, it should last the decade at least, at most with a RAM / GPU upgrade, if that, so I really want to be thorough and sure of everything before dedicating this vast amount of money. Thanks for looking this over, any opinions and comments would be hugely appreciated.
First off, motherboards, I've read a lot of praise for both the Asus P6X58D-E and the Asus Rampage III Gene. Initially I was settled on the Gene, but the PSX58D-E is cheaper, has more power phases on the CPU socket, and what appears to be more PCI-e x16 sockets despite some massively confusing uncertainty surrounding this point (the 3rd socket only has one lane? Doesn't that negate the x16 bit then?), but the Gene had some surprisingly excellent overclocking potential, one reviewer boasting about it as being the best 1366 board they've ever overclocked, if only by a bit. It also out preformed the Extreme on numerous game tests. So simply, which is the better of the two? I intend to install a full liquid cooling system and OC the CPU, RAM and anything else that will stay stable and cool-ish.
Secondly, I am sort of paddling in little circles trying to choose a damned GPU. It's been "reduced" to the MSI GeForce GTX 480 1536Mb, two Palit GeForce GTX 460 Sonic 2048MB in SLi, or two HIS ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB in Crossfire. The crossfire 5770s have, as you know, preformed phenomenally in benchmarking, destroying competition many times more costly than themselves( at least purely in FPS), so they're a huge spanner in the works. When it comes down to it, do two 5770's in Crossfire really compete with the high end Fermi cards? Using 3D in the future is also a possibility, but not for some time, currently the cards would be running on a 1920 x 1200 screen through HDMI at 60Hz.
Finally, simply requesting your professional and educated opinion on the overall quality and logic of the build, if you would.
The rest of the build that's certain (in so far) is:
CPU: Intel i7 950
RAM: OCZ Gold 6Gb DDR3 @ 2000Mhz (10-10-10-20)
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA-3
Optical: LiteOn iHBS112 12x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive
Case: Coolermaster Storm Scout Gaming Case
PSU: Cooler Master GX 750W
I'm throwing everything into this first build, it should last the decade at least, at most with a RAM / GPU upgrade, if that, so I really want to be thorough and sure of everything before dedicating this vast amount of money. Thanks for looking this over, any opinions and comments would be hugely appreciated.
