Gaming Build (i7, P6T v2, 12g ram, 4870x2)

[mrblahman]

Build needs to be around ~$1700. Will be used for gaming / photoshop / .NET.

Monitor - already have a 24'
Mobo - Asus P6T Deluxe V2 ($289)
CPU - i7 920 2.66ghz ($279)
RAM - Corsair 12gb (6x2gig) DDR3 1600 ($239)
Video - Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 x2 ($384)
Main HD - OCZ Vertex SSD2 120gig ($309)
Case - (STILL DECIDING) - Lian Li 60BPLUSII ($99)
PSU - ?? 650W+
Secondary HD - ?? 1+ terra.
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TOTAL = $1599

How does the system build look so far?
Any issues seen?
Ideas for PSU and Secondary HD?
Ideas for a case?

 

[dmw16]

Seems like you just picked a bunch of expensive parts. But the system looks fine.

For a PSU, Corsair is the way to go.
For a 2nd hard drive I'd say a Western Digital "Black Edition" 1TB is the way to go
Case I'd either say the one you picked or a nice Cooler Master.

 

[AstroManLuca]

You probably don't need 12 GB of RAM. 6 is fine. But 12 GB can't really hurt of course.

 

[imported_wired247]

I'm not sufficiently impressed with SSD for putting it as the system HDD except on laptops... I'd probably stick with a velociraptor if you want to spend that much on storage

I'm curious what kind of enormous photoshop files you're going to open that require more than 6GB ... they must be ungodly resolution or games that can use 12GB for that matter. you do know that adding extra ram doesn't make a computer faster unless you were running out of it, right?

 

[mrblahman]

12 gig of ram for ~$200 sounds like a good deal to me. I was kinda liking the SSD for reliablity and speed.

 

[mcloud777]

Originally posted by: mrblahman
12 gig of ram for ~$200 sounds like a good deal to me. I was kinda liking the SSD for reliablity and speed.

The SSD should be used as your boot device and if you have room for a few good apps or games just don't use it for storage obvisously since the price is still too high for this tech. Also you will need to optimize the SSD unlike a normal HDD there are threads about how to do this. The ram is overkill go with 6 I did and only paid $177.

 

[mrblahman]

How about I go with the Dominator 6 gigs for $160?

 

[ViRaLRuSh]

Originally posted by: mrblahman
How about I go with the Dominator 6 gigs for $160?

Sounds like a good deal. :thumbsup:

 

[DSF]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
You probably don't need 12 GB of RAM.

He probably doesn't need a 24 foot monitor either, but that's how he rolls.