Spec Assistance.

[ajones32]

Building a new system and need some advice.
Made a link, hope that's ok, I don't to spam a massive picture at people.

http://img225.imageshack.us/f/finalspec.jpg/

I'm pretty sure on most of it except the memory and PSU, the QVL from Asus lists different codes so trying to find memory that's compatable is ass. I work with Photoshop and would like 12gb.
Also I'm not sure what PSU would be best. It would need to be powerful enough for a third 6970 and another hard drive in the future.
I've a blu-ray RW in another pc so I don't need that changing.
Am open to peripheral suggestions so long as price remains similar.

I've gone over my original budget slightly having changed my monitor choice but I'm ok for another £100 if it's really needed.

Thanks in advance.

 

[cmndr_andi]

Hi there,

Really nice monitor, case, keyboard, PSU, GPUs, PSU and other perpherals there.

However, I would strongly suggest against a X58 system at this stage. P67 sandy bridge may only support x8/x8 PCIE graphics - but this really is enough for two modern graphics cards running together (including two 6950s in crossfire). Crucially, Sandy Bridge is a good deal faster than s1366 i7 in CPU heavy tasks (like photoshop - review here)

As for adding a third card - I wouldn't suggest constraining your build with making it compatible for a third card in the future. Doing this means you have to spend a lot more on a PSU/motherboard now and have to settle for less CPU performance. Instead, I would suggest going for a P67 sandy bridge system, with an i7 2600K CPU, 16GB RAM (2 of these kits) and a decent x8/x8 board like this. With the money you save on a the Rampage III motherboard, you could afford an even better GPU setup for right now.

Also, I would have a look at the new generation of SSDs that are coming out now - they are really very fast (here is a review).

 

[ajones32]

Thanks for the reply, I had no clue about Sandybridge and Photoshop, it never occured to me to check.

That SSD looks really nice, money I'd save on the move to Sandybridge I could squeeze one of those in, replacing the C300.