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Ste59w

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Hi guys

Looking to upgrade my pc shortly - currently running an AMD phenom 2 quad at 3.2gz, 4gb 1066 kingston ram and a 5850 with an Vertex 64gb SSD.

The build will be used for gaming only really, the monitor i use is 1980x1200 but i also have 2 other monitors id like to use along with it on racing/flight games where the resolution would be 5040 x 1050 as smallest screen has a resolution of 1680 x 1050.

I'm planning on keeping the 5850 and SSD for now, putting in another SSD for some raid action, and using the 5850 until i have decided what GPU i want. Either a 580, another 5850 or one of the new cards coming out soon. Then i will sell my old pc.

Here's the spec



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Any suggestions or alternative specs welcome. And suggestions on GPU welcome too (bit worried about crossfire/micro stutter issues tbh)
 
This HDD

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

If you can get it whilst on offer:
This DVD RW
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-099-SA&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=951

Also not too sure about your PSU choice, once you've decided on your GPU choice I'd be more willing to suggest alternatives. Also if you want suggestions for GPU, budget for that would be useful :)

Also if you wanted to get a 580 (jealous) and thought that in the future you might upgrade to SLI if you have any issues then you'd need a SLI compliant MoBo, however your current one is fine for Xfire :)

For your uses, I'd probably want Eyefinity though, so for the same price as a 580 you could get crossfire 6950's, and hope to unlock them to 6970's...

kd
 
Went with that HD because it was the Sata 6GB/S - is there not much of a difference between that and Sata II?

Wanted a psu thats capable of running 1 x optical, 2x ssd, 1x storage, 2x graphics cards and overclocked. Havn't really got a budget for the graphics to be honest, wanted something top of the range to last a few years. I probably wouldnt go SLI hence looking at the 580, but if i did have 2 GPU's it would appear to make sense to just buy another 5850? Again a bit concerned of the issues associated with crossfire/sli.

Could the 580 not run 3 monitors by itself?
 
6GB/S shouldn't make too much difference, I can't quite remember why, but yeah xD

Plus programs/games etc.. you can fit on the SSD's for stupidly fast read times, and basically only media etc... will go on HDD/

Don't think the 580 could run 3 monitors on it's own, think the limit is 2, but a single ATI I think can run 3, can't quite remember the details, and don't have time to look it up right now!

kd
 
King Damager said:
Plus programs/games etc.. you can fit on the SSD's for stupidly fast read times, and basically only media etc... will go on HDD/
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Sorry to jump in, but I'm contemplating on getting an SSD for games, but on a 60gb SSD I wouldn't be able to fit many, right?
 
6GB/S shouldn't make too much difference, I can't quite remember why, but yeah xD
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For mechanical drives 6GB/s makes no difference. Your HDD won't be able to take advantage. It's the cache memory for some reason that is good lol.... can't remember why. I would go for the Samsung F3 as mentioned.

Rexton said:
Sorry to jump in, but I'm contemplating on getting an SSD for games, but on a 60gb SSD I wouldn't be able to fit many, right?
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That is correct. I use a 64GB SSD as a boot drive for Windows 7 and other programs. It's blazingly fast, I couldn't go back to loading Win 7 on a mechanical drive. All games and data go onto an additional mechanical drive.
 
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coldfused said:
That is correct. I use a 64GB SSD as a boot drive for Windows 7 and other programs. It's blazingly fast, I couldn't go back to loading Win 7 on a mechanical drive. All games and data go onto an additional mechanical drive.
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Thought so, I'll wait until they lower in price to get a larger one for games.
 
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