800 for new hardware

[Gutcheck2009]

I'm thinking i7?

I like the idea of this new evga x58 LE board, but I am worried about the x16/x8 PCI Express for SLI, although I have never SLI'ed in my life. My ideal system is a really stable system with the ability to game. I like one vid card, not two or three. I thing when the new 300 line from nvidia comes out I would like to pop one of those in. Right now I think maybe a 920, x58 board of some varient, and some RAM.

Any other suggestions?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Let er rip!

 

[Arcanedeath]

I Just did a similar upgrade to what you are thinking of, the X58 SLI LE board has 16x 8x 4x 8x slots for PCI-E they are all PCI-E 2.0 if you are going next gen based on the 300 series GPU's and are going to SLI them you'd be better off with the non LE board as it will do dual 16x slots or 16x 8x 8x for tri sli but if your keeping your current parts Sans MB, CPU, and Memory then the X58 SLI LE is a good choice. So far I've been pretty impressed w/ the X58 SLI LE, I haven't really pushed it yet though as I just finished loading Windows yesterday and got things at 3.2 ghz just for kicks on stock voltage. but with 800 to spend you can fit a 6gb ddr 3 kit, an i7 920 & a Classified board the x58 LE is EVGA's lowest end board even if it looks the best

 

[deputc26]

Sounds good, what hardware do you already have? is this $800 for upgrades or new sys?

 

[Gutcheck2009]

Yes, I have heard this x16 thing, but I really don't think I will ever SLI. It always has been overkill, and the classified is EXPENSIVE. I also will need to fit a CPU cooler in this 800 bones. They are easily 50 bucks.

So far:

EVGA x58-LE: 239 - 20 bucks (doesn't count)
i7 920 - 279
Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 - 154
Zalman 9900LED - 60

After our new fantastic CA almost 10% tax, that is 800 almost on the head.