Is this thing a beast??? Final Rig Lookover

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astolt12

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Some of you may remember my ibuypower rig, where I asked for an opinion...after placing the order and then reading horrible reviews I've grown scared and decided to cancel it first thing tomorrow morning and build it myself. It'll be faster, cheaper, and it's a little bit of a love child thing.

Can you all tell me what you think of this? It's a sole newegg build with software and everything totaling a little shy of 1800$ USD. Where an IBP rig with god knows what was 1770. And this includes bad company 2. hehe.

Case: Evo NXTZ Case Mid Tower
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146062

Mobo: P6T 3 Way SLI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131359
(Looking to go crossfire in the future, so im setting up for that)

CPU: i7 930
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115225

Video Card: ATI 5870 (sapphire)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102872

Ram: Corsair 6 Gigs DDR3 1600 (2X3Gigs)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145222

Hard Drives: Samsung Dual 500GB Sata 3.0gbs
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181

Disk Drive: Sony Drive (standard issue)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118030

Power Supply: Rosewill 1000W 80 plus
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182188

CPU Cooling: Corsair H50
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181010

CPU paste: Artic Silver
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100007


Wireless Card: EDIMAX EW-7128G PCI Wireless Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833315041

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116754

How does that all look? I am looking into going crossfire in the years to come so this is set up for that.

Hopefully everything looks well as I plan to remove my business from IBP first thing in the morning. Also, I am ordering 3 sata 3.0gbs cables from mono cable to power the drives.

Let me know, as i put this together tonight in about 3 hours of careful research. but its about 230 eastern time and i very well coulda looked over something...

Sata Cables
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10226&cs_id=1022602&p_id=4865&seq=1&format=2
 
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Actually I have to disagree with daisy - even though the Gigabyte supports USB + Sata 3.0. The Asus P6T series are well know to OC well, and are very solid boards. As for the PSU - grab the one daisy suggested. Rosewill make pretty low quality PSUs. Otherwise you've done a good job of putting that build together :good:

Save some money and grab the i7 920, the general consensus amongst OC'ers is that the 920 does better. (Sorry Bomber :P)
 
Splash out on a boot SSD. It makes your os extremely fast...And you could put one or two games on it.

The SSD

P.S - Crossfire is'nt good compared to SLI.
 
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I have been building PCs since the mid 90s and in the IT field for a decade now. I have always used Asus Motherboards and Antec PSUs. I have never had either fail on me. I know that my friends and colleagues have had models from those brands and had failures. So I know there is a failure rate. However, no matter what you read, no matter who reviews a product, no one is going to give you information like this. I have a 900w true wattage antec PSU in my current rig, and it is completely modular which makes cable management easy cheesy.

Corsair PSUs I have no real world experience with, but people claim that they are great, so it would be a wise investment as well most likely. I do not know that PSU you linked, but a power supply is one of the most important parts of your system as it will royally screw up your system if it goes bad. The backbone of your system is your motherboard, as it allows all your hardware to interact with each other.

So a good rule of thumb is to never skimp out on a PSU or a motherboard. As they are the most important parts of your system. Today it gets a bit more complicated because a lot of performance relies on driver coding. Poorly written drivers can make a huge difference in performance, so you should always also research how drivers are fairing and how often said company updates them.
 
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