This is my new PC System

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It seems that it will take the load. It's got 6x20A that can combine into a single 95A rail. I don't know how it will handle dual 580, but looks OK for power distribution.

Each Phantom 3GB requires 1x6pin + 1x8pin PCIE connector each, so a total of 2x6 + 2x8 PCIE power connectors, which the Tagan can supply. So it looks all right. It looks like you will be using the red and blue PCIE connectors, with REMI ferrite cores for the GPUs.

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If you choose a different graphics card, I would make sure it won't take 2x8pin PCIE connectors. then, I would be very wary of using a molex or 6->8pin converter. Not on that kind of hardware!

Can't say about reliability or quality of the PSU itself, otherwise. But I still think if you can afford 2 phantom 3GB, then you can afford a top PSU.
 
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aragorncy said:
My PSU is the Tagan TG1300-U33.

I have been using it for more than a year with no problems.
Can you please tell me whether i will need to get another one or if the one i have has any problems.
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Tagan are a quality PSU manufacturer. They aren't as popular lately though for some reason. Maybe they aren't so good these days? I'd ignore the naysayers though, unless there are bad reviews.
 
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Finding reviews on them is difficult, although the one I posted doesn't look bad. As long as the connectivity and power distribution stands, and the build quality is decent (which it seems to be), then I don't see why not.
 
Thank you all for your replies and thoughts.

I think i will stay with my current psu since it can support 2 GTX580 cards and since i had no problems all this time that i was using it.

I only have one serious problem and has to do with the sound card.

The pc i am building will be mainly used for gaming. I am between the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD Sound Card and the Asus Xonar (but dont know which version).

Which one do you think is the best and if it is the Xonar which version of it.

Thank you
 
Shouldnt you wait for bulldozer to release? As the price of the i7's/i5's will drop, and the bulldozers might even be better than the sandybridges?
 
I will build the pc now because really i have waited for a long time.

I read that there are problems on the Z68 motherboard concerning the slots. Here is what i found:

"I keep hearing negative things about the extreme-z. People seem to be disappointed that it doesn't have all of the features that other z68 boards have.

One thing that I like about the P67 board is, if you put something like a sound card or whatever in your first PCI-e slot, then you can run dual sli in your bottom two pci-e slots and they will both be x16 speed.

I'm wondering if the z68 board is actually any good of it's just a worst feature lacking board that supports ssd cache"

The strange thing is that both mobos look the same (i think the slots are at the same places on both mobos) and i was thinking of whether i could do the above with the Z68 mobo.

Then i found this: (he is talking about the Z68 mobo)

Right, I think your board has an NF200 chip, in which case, it means you need to put something in the top slot (which you obviously have) but it needs to be something like a soundcard or a wireless card to engage the nf200 chip.

Then you can put the graphics card's in slots 2 and 4 (out of the 4 full Pcie slots you have) then you should get both cards running at 16x

this video should help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtI-BGBye6w skip to about 5:10 and yes I know it is a p67 board, but the same principle applies hope that helps


Any thoughts on the above please? I was going to put the order today, but i am waiting to solve this issue first
 
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"I keep hearing negative things about the extreme-z. People seem to be disappointed that it doesn't have all of the features that other z68 boards have.
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uh? :confused:

I don't really know about the NF200 chip, except it gives you the option of x16x16. And I don't know about the AsRock board being able to do anything above x8x8.

Right, I think your board has an NF200 chip, in which case, it means you need to put something in the top slot (which you obviously have) but it needs to be something like a soundcard or a wireless card to engage the nf200 chip.

Then you can put the graphics card's in slots 2 and 4 (out of the 4 full Pcie slots you have) then you should get both cards running at 16x

this video should help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtI-BGBye6w skip to about 5:10 and yes I know it is a p67 board, but the same principle applies hope that helps
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I have no idea what he is talking about. Sounds weird to have to populate the top slot to unlock the full x16x16. But if the info is accurate, what's the problem? You stick in the sound card and off you go.

No game comes close to max the x8 bandwidth at the moment. So the x8 x16 debate is pointless right now. And I don't think any game will be bottlenecked by the PCIE, unless you start running out of VRAM. But then again, with a 3GB 580...

You want the best board, you just have to pay for it. Ask the motherboard section for clarification.
 
Looks like the Z68 mobo is out of stock and they told me that hopefully they will have some after 10 days.

So ...i will get the P67 and give an end to to this!!!!

Thank you all for your replies and thoughts.
 
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