Project X (Red)

[ooknat]

Hi

System spec

Case : Cooler Master HAF X Gaming Tower Case - Black

Power Supply : Corsair Professional Series HX1050 Professional Series 1050W

CPU : Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155

Motherboard : Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z Intel Z68 (Socket 1155)

Ram : Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual

Graphics : Asus ATI Radeon HD 6970 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics (CrossFire setup)

Hard Drives : OCZ Vertex 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (os) Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gb/s (games) Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB SATA 6Gb/s (x4 raid 5 for dvdrips collections)

Optical Drive LG BH10LS30 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Lightscribe Drive - Black

CPU Cooler : Corsair Hydro H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

Plan on replace the side panel fan with a Cool Master Megaflow red led

OS : Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

Front Panel : Antec Veris Multimedia Station Premier

My goals for the system

Heavy gaming on Eyefinity

multitasking between alot programmers

Xbmc set-up for watch me movies

some video editing

Using the Asus software do basic over clocking for now

If you wonderful people can recommend any different parts in about the same price range.

thanks in advance

 

[Matthias2437]

Only thing I would change would be maybe the HAF-X.. I tell this to everyone since I got the case but be 100% sure you like the looks before you get it. I thought I liked the looks of the case until I had it for about a month, then it got very old. I would recommend the 800D or maybe the Raven RV02.

Outside of that though that PC will dominate gaming, editing, and overclocking.

 

[S_I_N]

looks good with the exception of the GPU's but hey thats ur choice to have dual leaf blowers

When NVIDIA will do the same in surround without the added noise

 

[Chaney579]

looks good with the exception of the GPU's but hey thats ur choice to have dual leaf blowers

When NVIDIA will do the same in surround without the added noise

+1

 

[kilobravo]

For nearly the same money,i would change the HafX for the Xigmatek Elysium.

Gpu: gigabyte gtx570 soc.

Maybe change the H100 with xspc rasa 750 rs360 wc-kit.

These changes will give you a more silent pc,better cooling, good oc headroom and still be silent.

 

[ooknat]

Hi guys thanks for the quick responses. I had good read up and look at the Xigmatek Elysium case look very nice and I will be changing to that case.

xspc rasa 750 rs360 wc-kit looks good, but have few question about it. What water coolant would you recommend and would able get white dye to match in theme

and am temped to swap the fans in the kit for Xigmatek XLF-F1455 140mm x6 for push and pull set up to match case fans.

Gigabyte gtx 570 soc erm... not sure about it, Asus ATI Radeon HD 6970 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics dose have alot more memory so at high resolution, would ati 6970 perform better ?.

Gigabyte gtx 570 would be cooler and less sound, but how do the they hold up in sli next ati 6970 crosfire, and would gtx 580 be more of a match up next to ati 6970, but they do cost more so that why thought about going the ati route.

I am not plan on 3d gaming, i have 3x24 inch led screen's at 1920x180 each,

 

[rwiuviberwVFIUBER]

If you have 2x570 that'll be plenty enough memory and power for 3 monitors, especially since you can always get the EVGA 570 with 2500mb memory, so it's more then enough. But in all honesty, buy a single 580 now, and wait for their prices to drop, and get another later. A 580 will play anything @ max FPS, and you leave room for upgrading.

 

[Chaney579]

xspc rasa 750 rs360 wc-kit looks good, but have few question about it. What water coolant would you recommend and would able get white dye to match in theme

and am temped to swap the fans in the kit for Xigmatek XLF-F1455 140mm x6 for push and pull set up to match case fans.

I would just buy White tubing. There are a lot to choose from, and just replace the tubing that comes in the kit. Its only like 2.25 USD a foot. At the most