Would I be able to have this much?

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Hey, so I'm in the process of saving up money for my system.
I like to have the best tech out there for the best performance. Can someone please let me know if all this would fit onto my motherboard?

Asus Rampage IV Extreme/BF3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard
With

OCZ RevoDrive3 X2 240GB PCI-E SSD
OCZ RevoDrive HYBRID 1TB PCI-E SSD Hard Drive
Bigfoot Killer 2100 Gigabit Gaming Network Card
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD Sound Card
And 2 undecided graphics cards

And does anyone have any opinions about these choices?
 
It won't all fit. The motherboard has six PCIe slots, but you won't be able to use all of them with two graphics cards installed as each card will cover up the slot below it.

What do you do with your PC that needs £1k of ultra fast storage anyway?
 
Blue160 said:
It won't all fit. The motherboard has six PCIe slots, but you won't be able to use all of them with two graphics cards installed as each card will cover up the slot below it.

What do you do with your PC that needs £1k of ultra fast storage anyway?
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Oh that's a shame, hmm what do you suggest I do.
I would have really liked to get all of them, what do you reckon I should stick with ?
 
Are you building a gaming rig or a workstation?

If its a gaming rig use a SATA SSD drive for Windows and games, and a regular HDD for data. Ditch the network card too, they don't do anything useful. That leaves two graphics cards and your soundcard which will fit fine.

If its a workstation that really needs those revodrives ditch one of the graphics cards and the network card.

If its supposed to be both then think seriously about building two separate rigs.
 
Or watercooled the cards and fit single slot backplates!!!

Cooler and quieter, personally I'd drop the 1tb revo unless you really need it as a small ssd attached to a bigger hdd with caching will offer good performance with a much lower price and no pcie requirements
 
Ok, I've swapped out the 1tb PCIe hdd for -

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM
And Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive

If I watercooled the cards and fitted single slot backplates would I be able to fit everything?
 
If you go to single slot cards with waterblocks then everything should fit assuming it is all pcie
 
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