Need advice on new pc build

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sauliukas

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Hey guys I want to build up a pc and so far I have made this list of parts that I I think will be a part of my new gaming pc ( thought I can be wrong ) :

Asrock Socket 1155 Intel Z68 Extreme4 Gen 3 HDMI DDR3 Dual PCI-E ATX
Intel® Core i7-2600K Processor
Corsair AX 1200W PSU
Corsair Dominator GT DDR3 2000MHz 12GB
Kit w/3x 4GB XMS3 DHX, CL9-10-9-27, for Core i7, w/Fan& Connector, 1.65v
XFX Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 "Dual Fan" x 2
Corsair SSD Force Series 3, 240GB
Seagate Barracuda® 7200.12 1TB
SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3.0), 32MB Cache, 7200RPM, 3,5"

So the big Q is : Do I need to change something or add something or its all be ok? As I dont want to upgrade it after 12-18 months or so to play new games with Ultra or good video settings :D
 
Pretty good. But a 1000W power supply is way overkill for your video card. You can run two 6950 in crossfire with a quality 750W.
 
StrangleHold said:
Pretty good. But a 1000W power supply is way overkill for your video card. You can run two 6950 in crossfire with a quality 750W.
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Thanks for such fast reply!
But thing with PSU is I want to have it ready for crossfire quad (or whatever it called) as All I want to upgrade later is RAM's and ad another HD 6950 so I can have 6gb (Fingers X I dont need to do that for another 2 years :D)
 
The power supply is fine. But like I said you can run two 6950 with a quality 750W or at most a 850W. Its up to you if you want to spend the extra for a 1000W
 
StrangleHold said:
The power supply is fine. But like I said you can run two 6950 with a quality 750W or at most a 850W. Its up to you if you want to spend the extra for a 1000W
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But I want to have 2 x hd6950 now so I thinking about being ready to connect another one.So do 1000w psu will be ok to handle 3x hd6950 ? As it is tricky for my brains :D they recomending 500w or 550w for single hd6950 ?
 
Since you say it will be a gaming computer. You could save some by going with a 2500K, in games the 2600K has no advantage because of having Hyperthreading.
 
Ok , another thingy is about motherboards RAM speed it says : "Supports DDR3 2133(OC)/1866(OC)/1600/1333/1066 non-ECC, un-buffered memory" Does it means that it will not be working with my current setup or should i go for 1600 ddr3 ?
Thanks
 
well if you add in the third 6950 the only slot for it to go in on thaty board is a x4, so that may cause you some performance. also unless you plan to use 3+ monitors now, it might be smarter to grab a 6970 or gtx570/80 now, any of these should max every game out on a single monitor for how long you wanted minimum, and it would be easy to just add in a second later, or upgrade to a single 79XX or GTX 6XX. and no game out today even braks 6gb's, so as he was saying 8gb's is more than enough for gaming. and for the cpu, the i52500k is more than powerful enough for every game today, and the reason there is no need for the i7 is that it's benefit over the i5 is its hyperthreading so it appears like 8 cores although it performs more like 5/6, but no game out other than fsx knows how to use over 4 cores and none will for a while, so the 100 bucks is wasted really. lastly i believe the ocz agility 3 series is considerably faster than that ssd, so you may want to look at those.
 
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