My Super Machine. Few Questions.

Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £349.99
Benq XL2410T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor - Black **ZOWIE SPECIAL EDITION** £299.99
2 * Gainward GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £539.98
(£449.98)
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £215.99
Corsair Professional Series™ Gold AX850 High Performance 850W Power Supply £157.99
Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £136.55
Silverstone SST-FT03B Fortress 3 Black £119.99
Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision Kit £114.98
Razer Naga Epic Elite Wireless MMO Gaming Mouse £104.99
LG BH10LS30 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive - Black (OEM) £82.98
2 * Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £163.18
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM £79.99
Logitech G510 Gaming Keyboard £76.99
Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache £62.99
Sub Total : £2,088.81

2 * 1 week @ The Grand Mauritius Resort & Spa £2697
 
sldsmkd said:
Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £349.99
Benq XL2410T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor - Black **ZOWIE SPECIAL EDITION** £299.99
2 * Gainward GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £539.98
(£449.98)
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £215.99
Corsair Professional Series™ Gold AX850 High Performance 850W Power Supply £157.99
Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £136.55
Silverstone SST-FT03B Fortress 3 Black £119.99
Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision Kit £114.98
Razer Naga Epic Elite Wireless MMO Gaming Mouse £104.99
LG BH10LS30 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive - Black (OEM) £82.98
2 * Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £163.18
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM £79.99
Logitech G510 Gaming Keyboard £76.99
Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache £62.99
Sub Total : £2,088.81

2 * 1 week @ The Grand Mauritius Resort & Spa £2697
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Cookeh said:
Frame rates, microstutter, drivers, no enough bandwidth around, and a small amount of bottlenecking from PCI-E lanes.

HD5970+HD5970 actually produced lower framerates than HD5970+HD5870.
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pic-e bottlenecking? thats a tiny ammout aint it? at stulidly big resolutions only?

or is it unique to quadfire?
 
DJ_Hughesy said:
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5k on a pc.....awesome
if your going to the ocuk shop get them to build you something watercooled....im sure they'll hoover that money right out your hands and maybe then some but you will have a minted pc thats tax deductable if its for your buisness......i say HELL YEAH
 
Reaper.. :D did you mean to put the Amd phenom x4 in there or is it meant to be a intel product instead?.. i see no one mentioned it, but everyones mentioning the 2600k etc and you still stuck with the phenom :P
 
Dea924 said:
Reaper.. :D did you mean to put the Amd phenom x4 in there or is it meant to be a intel product instead?.. i see no one mentioned it, but everyones mentioning the 2600k etc and you still stuck with the phenom :P
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Are you referring to his spec in post #14?

He explained in his post that the Phenom II X4 system was just a placeholder for monitors to be bought from elsewhere - since the total cost of these monitors is about the same as that AMD system. The rest of his spec includes an i7 2600K and a nice P67 board.
 
Dea924 said:
Reaper.. :D did you mean to put the Amd phenom x4 in there or is it meant to be a intel product instead?.. i see no one mentioned it, but everyones mentioning the 2600k etc and you still stuck with the phenom :P
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cmndr_andi said:
Are you referring to his spec in post #14?

He explained in his post that the Phenom II X4 system was just a placeholder for monitors to be bought from elsewhere - since the total cost of these monitors is about the same as that AMD system. The rest of his spec includes an i7 2600K and a nice P67 board.
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yep, i put the titan in there as a placeholder because it would look out of place, and if the OP went with my build he's be unlikely to leave it in by accident. judging by your post, it worked :)

i think it came to £2 more than the moniters cost from elsewhere
 
If I was going to spend £6000 on a PC then below is what I would go for...

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And then I would promptly and politely ask you guys for opinions in case i went wrong :D

Edit: btw that is 4.5TB on the PC and 8TB backup ;)
 
i hate to relieve myself all over your bonfire blackn3r, but i really wouldnt go for that spec because:

- 590's have horriffic overheating problems which the drivers really havent fixed
- cant really see a need for the network attached storage. also, i believe you need a hell of a lot of other stuff to go with it (not an expert here)
- those 2TB HDD's are horrifically expensive. going for 1TB HDD's is a much better idea (and who needs 12TB of storage anyway)
- 99% of the time, the extra features of windows ultimate arent even needed by the user: comparison of windows versions
- the 2600K motherboards use dual channel ram, not triple. also, that RAM has very tall heatspreaders, so will get in the way of 99% of coolers (will definitely get in the way of the one you chose)
- those 3D monitors are really expensive. the LG ones can be bought for £100 less elsewhere, hence me recommending them and putting the titan system in to cover their price in my earlier spec
 
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If I had 5k to blow on a pc, I would ask Nath to build me a dual xeon water-cooled with tri ski 580s :)

Watercooling should definitely be done. Hell, I've spent 2.5k on my pc including water-cooling and it looks incredible, have a click on my sig, it takes you to the build :)
 
Oh and just so you know, the nvidia card such as the 580 also give you CUDA, which is used for professional video production and other things requiring heavy simultaneous calculations, so going for tri-580s for example would be much better for professional use than even dual-6990s. And don't worry, I'm not an nvidia fanboy, I prefer ATi :)
 
Reaper 392 said:
i hate to relieve myself all over your bonfire blackn3r, but i really wouldnt go for that spec because:

- 590's have horriffic overheating problems which the drivers really havent fixed
- cant really see a need for the network attached storage. also, i believe you need a hell of a lot of other stuff to go with it (not an expert here)
- those 2TB HDD's are horrifically expensive. going for 1TB HDD's is a much better idea (and who needs 12TB of storage anyway)
- 99% of the time, the extra features of windows ultimate arent even needed by the user: comparison of windows versions
- the 2600K motherboards use dual channel ram, not triple. also, that RAM has very tall heatspreaders, so will get in the way of 99% of coolers (will definitely get in the way of the one you chose)
- those 3D monitors are really expensive. the LG ones can be bought for £100 less elsewhere, hence me recommending them and putting the titan system in to cover their price in my earlier spec
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Like i said at the bottom of my post, i would ask what the knowledgeable people here think. The NAS dont need no extras, read more. And so **** if would want a ****load of storage and ram, i didnt ask whether i need them or not, that would be my choice. and i swapped cpu and mb and i forgot to change the ram.

and in no way shape or form have i said that that is the PC the OP should buy :o

so instead of being an ass, try steering me in the right direction...
 
blackn3r said:
Like i said at the bottom of my post, i would ask what the knowledgeable people here think. The NAS dont need no extras, read more. And so **** if would want a ****load of storage and ram, i didnt ask whether i need them or not, that would be my choice. and i swapped cpu and mb and i forgot to change the ram.

and in no way shape or form have i said that that is the PC the OP should buy :o

so instead of being an ass, try steering me in the right direction...
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erm, how exactly am i being an ass? im just listing the faults of your build. i even apologised to you for it.

only place i might have been a bit rude is the storage thing. i said i wasnt an expert there and could be wrong too

as for steering you in the right direction:
- graphics: 3x 580's would probably be best (wont go for 4 because of quad SLI problems cookeh has said about that i know nothing of
- network storage thing: im clueless here, but seems quite expensive to me for what it is
- HDD's: go for some quick 1TB drives for the PC, and some cheap green 2TB drives for the backup
- windows: get home premium, unless a better version is needed for the network backup thing
- RAM: corsair XMS3 8GB or, if you really really wanted the faster stuff, kingston 8GB (although i doubt it will make much difference)
- 3D monitors: LG ones from elsewhere that someone mentioned earlier in this thread (i forget who)
 
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