Buying a New Gaming Computer

Cloister_the_Stupid wrote:

You know, I never understood why you guys didn't go for triple channel over dual channel for ram on an intel platform.
And for pete's sake, why is everyone stuck in this gay ass 1080p mode for computers. All vid card can easily surpass that res. Yes the response time is a little slow and price is high, but demand a little more and get your head out of the 1080p fad, the res is not that great really when you think about it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824176177

Thriple channel ram isn't compatable with the latest generation of intel processors. last processor to support it would be the 900 series I7's everything since then is dual channnel.

I use 6gb ddr3 1866 running in triple channel with my I7 920 processor. The new I7 980(non extreme) will soon replace my 920

i haven't bought an intel cpu since the first celeron 300a (which I still have). So I dont know the in and outs.

triple channel ram isn't compatible with the newest processors because people aren't fooled anymore by the marketing hype.
triple channel has no discernible performance increase over dual channel and therefore people refuse to pay more for it, so it is dying.
similar to when rambus was faster than ddr, but cost soooooooo much more that it just eventually died.
oh, and the voltages of ddr3 were too high for overclocking i7's and could make them burn up. that's usually a big negative in the electronics world

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nehalem-Performance-Memory-DDR3,6446.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Intel-Core-i7-Nehalem,2057-13.html

This is what we finally decided on:
CPU i7-2600k
RAM (16gb) of DDR3 1600
2 GTX 560 Ti video cards
1 Mid-size case
1 60gb SSD drive
1 1-Tb hard drive
1 optical drive
1 CPU cooler (fan/heatsink)
1 Powersupply
Razer Black Widow Ultimate gaming keyboard
Ikari Steel Series 7 button wired gaming mouse
I am using my "old" Apple 30" Cinema Display monitor

I'm jealous.

alphabeta wrote:

This is what we finally decided on:
CPU i7-2600k
RAM (16gb) of DDR3 1600
2 GTX 560 Ti video cards
1 Mid-size case
1 60gb SSD drive
1 1-Tb hard drive
1 optical drive
1 CPU cooler (fan/heatsink)
1 Powersupply
Razer Black Widow Ultimate gaming keyboard
Ikari Steel Series 7 button wired gaming mouse
I am using my "old" Apple 30" Cinema Display monitor

Very good rig, I only recomend you a 2 TB HDD (the difference in price respect 1TB is very small) and take care in buy a good power supply and a good motherboard for you SLI configuration.

I built this set up and runs flawlessly
Antec 1200 case w9 fans
Asus Crosshair Formula 4 mobo
AMD Phenom 2 1100T 6 core cpu 3.3 mhz 9mb cache
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 cpu heatsink W/ dual Scythe 110 cfm fans
G Skill Ripjaw 12 gig ram DDR3 2000 PC3 16000
Western Digital Veloci Raptor 10k rpm SATA 6.0 G/bs transfer 450GB
Power Cooler HD 6970 PCI express 2.1 256 biy memory interface 2 gig DDR 5 memory
OCZ ZX series ZX-1000 Gold 1000 watt pwr supply
Logitech G-15 keybard
Logitech G-500 mouse
Samsung Synmaster 206BW 2ms refresh rate
Plantronics Gamesonic head sets

I plan to add a SSD drive and better monitor in near future

I didn't know you lived in Denton you hippie

I should have guessed from the accent, though

Super-Viking kick ass southern boy.

For all that like 2 VGA for SLI/Crossfire, read this:

Micro-Stuttering And GPU Scaling In CrossFire And SLI
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-stutter-crossfire,2995.html

Do any of you guys have a liquid cooled computer? If you have it are you glad you got it? Is it worth it or do you worry about it leaking?

I got a Corsair H70 liquid cooler. It was worth it, no worries of leaks and it dropped my temps at least 10-15 deg F which is a lot. It puts practically no weight on it like an air cooled cooler,