Its taken about 6 months and a lot of research but my build is finally done and I'm happy with it
A big thank you to all the forum members too, nearly every question I had was answered here already!
The rig was built mainly for fps gaming and geared towards BF3, I made a few mistakes but you live and learn!
Ok so the things I learnt that I couldn't find much research on, you can fit a large soundcard under a crossfire setup on a p8p67 standard motherboard Also, my second GPU which is a 6950 unlocked is running perfectly fine at x4 speed in the second pcie slot, I was quite pi**ed when I found out that my "crossfire compatible" motherboard might not be so, turns out, nothing to worry about, I'm probably losing 5-10% performance.
3dmark
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1826914?show_ads=true&page=%2F3dm11%2F1826914%3Fkey%3D2bBDKLBEdA9AXpmCkbF0yQTRHWKXzT
Spec
ASUS P8P67
3.30 gigahertz Intel Core i5-2500K (clocked to 4500)
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6970 IceQ Turbo 2048MB
HIS ATI Radeon 6950 (unlocked to 6970) Both cards running at 915mhz & 1450mhz
55GB OCZ-VERTEX2
TX 750w psu (next upgrade)
Asus Xonar D2 7.1 PCI Sound Card
Peripherals
Alienware Tactx mouse and keyboard
Razer Nostromo
Sennheiser PC 360 Gaming Headset
Monitor
Alienware OptX AW2310 3D
I was sceptical about spending a lot of money on a soundcard/headset/monitor but it all left me speechless, once you have played a game in 120hz its hard to switch back.
Anyway, any questions about anything I'd be more than happy to help and again thanks to everyone who posts on these forums, very helpful.
Edit* Also any tips to get the most out of my hardware would be lovely
A big thank you to all the forum members too, nearly every question I had was answered here already!
The rig was built mainly for fps gaming and geared towards BF3, I made a few mistakes but you live and learn!
Ok so the things I learnt that I couldn't find much research on, you can fit a large soundcard under a crossfire setup on a p8p67 standard motherboard Also, my second GPU which is a 6950 unlocked is running perfectly fine at x4 speed in the second pcie slot, I was quite pi**ed when I found out that my "crossfire compatible" motherboard might not be so, turns out, nothing to worry about, I'm probably losing 5-10% performance.
3dmark
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1826914?show_ads=true&page=%2F3dm11%2F1826914%3Fkey%3D2bBDKLBEdA9AXpmCkbF0yQTRHWKXzT
Spec
ASUS P8P67
3.30 gigahertz Intel Core i5-2500K (clocked to 4500)
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6970 IceQ Turbo 2048MB
HIS ATI Radeon 6950 (unlocked to 6970) Both cards running at 915mhz & 1450mhz
55GB OCZ-VERTEX2
TX 750w psu (next upgrade)
Asus Xonar D2 7.1 PCI Sound Card
Peripherals
Alienware Tactx mouse and keyboard
Razer Nostromo
Sennheiser PC 360 Gaming Headset
Monitor
Alienware OptX AW2310 3D
I was sceptical about spending a lot of money on a soundcard/headset/monitor but it all left me speechless, once you have played a game in 120hz its hard to switch back.
Anyway, any questions about anything I'd be more than happy to help and again thanks to everyone who posts on these forums, very helpful.
Edit* Also any tips to get the most out of my hardware would be lovely
That's gonna run BF3 like a ferret with it's arse on fire!