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Kyleee

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I'm quite good with computers myself and personally I think this computer is just a monster, but I'm paying a lot of money so I want to make sure this thing will just obliterate anything I give to it. :D

I'm not going to name all of the computer specs, only some of them. From the specs I tell you though, you should be able to tell me if it's good or bad. :D

Specs :

Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3960X Extreme edition | 6 cores |
3.30GHz | Water cooled and Overclocked 5.00GHz | 15MB
cache.

Ram : 24GB DDR3

Graphics card : x3 2GB GDDR5 Nvidia GTX 580

Hard drive 1 : 2TB

Hard drive 2 : 1TB

Hard drive 3 : 1TB


Now, as you can see I'm an extreme gamer so I need to this thing to be out of this world amazing.

I want to play really high demanding games, for example : Crysis 1, BBF3 etc...

Will this machine be able to do this?
 
claptonman

claptonman

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It would, yes, but it is extreme overkill, as in you will never use this much power, even in BF3 and Crysis 1.

Look at i5 2500k or i7 2600k for CPU. Cheaper and will max out every game you throw at it.

No game will use more than 8GB of RAM, and by the time they do use more than 8GB, your system will be outdated.

What power supply, case did you choose? Do you have a copy of Win 7?

Do you need that much space? With the hard drive prices the way they are, you'd be better just getting one drive and in the future, if you need more space, its a simple install.

Didn't even see the 3 580s. 2 580s will crush any game you throw at it. ANY.
 
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Phy

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That computer wont have any problem running anything for the next 5 years. Way over kill on the ram though, no game will use that much.
 
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Kyleee

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claptonman said:
It would, yes, but it is extreme overkill, as in you will never use this much power, even in BF3 and Crysis 1.

Look at i5 2500k or i7 2600k for CPU. Cheaper and will max out every game you throw at it.

No game will use more than 8GB of RAM, and by the time they do use more than 8GB, your system will be outdated.

What power supply, case did you choose? Do you have a copy of Win 7?

Do you need that much space? With the hard drive prices the way they are, you'd be better just getting one drive and in the future, if you need more space, its a simple install.

Didn't even see the 3 580s. 2 580s will crush any game you throw at it. ANY.
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I was was thinking about getting the HAF X case. Should I?

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claptonman

claptonman

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For BF3, you'll be maxing it out with vertical sync on, so it'll play perfectly with 2 580s.

The coolermasters are great cases.
 
jonnyp11

jonnyp11

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where are you buying this from? from the cpu listing it looks like you're ordering a customized one like on ibuypower and cyberpowerpc, you know this is going to be the most overpriced thing ever, they're probably charging like 500-1k for the assembly when you could do it. Also if you're getting stuff like that then i'd say just get a single 128gb ssd, then 2 2tb 7200rpm hdd's in raid 0, maybe even 2 64gb ssd's in raid 0. also what mobo are you looking at, very few will have the 6 needed ram slots, even though they are a complete waste as they were saying. unless using 3+ mopnitors this is straight wasteful.
 
Exo

Exo

Member
TBH.. No way I would ever buy this much computer to play games.. TOO much overkill. Do as suggested and downgrade to something that will still kill everything like a 2500k with one or two 580's and buy you some extras like speakers, mouse, keyboard ect...
 
Ankur

Ankur

Active Member
If you want a long lasting gaming PC then 6 core CPU is good, Even though you don't need 6 core it will handle gaming for a long time. I would avoid the 3960X and get a 3930K which is also 6 core and probably wait a month for the new GPUs that are coming out.
 
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