extrem buld.

[Marzov]

Hi. in a few months I'm going to make a extreme build. but I can't decide how many GPU's I'm going to get. can I'm stuck on wich socket 2011 processor I want. I'm going to have fully water cooled. need help geting parts for that aswell. the rest of the build is as follows.

Motherboard: ASUS rampage IV extreme E-ATX

RAM: corsair dominator platinum 2133 MHz 64GB

SSD: 2 Samsung 820 pro 256 GB

PSU: corsair AX1200I

case: CM cosmos II or I'm going to wait for the corsair 900D.

allso if I have PCI-e slots left a 7.1 sound card and a wirless network adapter. any recomandations would be apriciated.

I have a 7K dollar budget.

sorry for the bad english :D

PS: if I have some parts missing give me a heads up with what you recomend.

[greenroost1445]

get 2 690's or 2 7990's

[Marzov]

get 2 690's or 2 7990's

Are there watercooling blocks for those?

[Marzov]

forgot to I thinking about buying 680's

[Guest]

What is this actually for? I can not think of a practical every day consumer application that will ever consume 64GB of RAM.

Please read this before posting: http://linustechtips.com/main/forum/the-workbench/new-builds-and-planning/66259-build-plan-thread-reccomendations-please-read-before-posting

[Marzov]

What is this actually for? I can not think of a practical every day consumer application that will ever consume 64GB of RAM.

Please read this before posting: http://linustechtips.com/main/forum/the-workbench/new-builds-and-planning/66259-build-plan-thread-reccomendations-please-read-before-posting

yes I forgot to say what it was for. its what can I say. I can't get the drivers license and a car. I love computers. so its just cause I can actualy. it is manly for gaming on 3 monitors with high fps. and some recording of gamplay. I'm going to use some of the ram as a RAMDisk.

[Guest]

If it's soley for gaming save yourself some money. Seeing as you want to go top end, a 3770K, A ROG board or P8Z77 Asus board, a 4GB 670 or 680 - they'll handle 3 screen gaming and be able to deliver atleast 60fps constantly across the screens. 64GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600 seeing as you want to make a RAM disk. The reason why I say Vengeance 1600 is that you will see no performance benefit with 2133 or Dominator Platinum and the Vengeance is still very good RAM. A Corsair 760i or 860i seeing as you want over the top will sort your power out and a case is up to you.

[Marzov]

If it's soley for gaming save yourself some money. Seeing as you want to go top end, a 3770K, A ROG board or P8Z77 Asus board, a 4GB 670 or 680 - they'll handle 3 screen gaming and be able to deliver atleast 60fps constantly across the screens. 64GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600 seeing as you want to make a RAM disk. The reason why I say Vengeance 1600 is that you will see no performance benefit with 2133 or Dominator Platinum and the Vengeance is still very good RAM. A Corsair 760i or 860i seeing as you want over the top will sort your power out and a case is up to you.

I know have been thinking about that. how is the i7 3930K, same motherboard in the post, vengeance 1600 64 GB of ram, two 680 and 860i fully watercooled?

[Guest]

If it's soley for gaming save yourself some money. Seeing as you want to go top end, a 3770K, A ROG board or P8Z77 Asus board, a 4GB 670 or 680 - they'll handle 3 screen gaming and be able to deliver atleast 60fps constantly across the screens. 64GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600 seeing as you want to make a RAM disk. The reason why I say Vengeance 1600 is that you will see no performance benefit with 2133 or Dominator Platinum and the Vengeance is still very good RAM. A Corsair 760i or 860i seeing as you want over the top will sort your power out and a case is up to you.

You won't take advantage of the extra two cores for gaming so personally I wouldn't but it's better than your original idea :P

[Marzov]

If it's soley for gaming save yourself some money. Seeing as you want to go top end, a 3770K, A ROG board or P8Z77 Asus board, a 4GB 670 or 680 - they'll handle 3 screen gaming and be able to deliver atleast 60fps constantly across the screens. 64GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600 seeing as you want to make a RAM disk. The reason why I say Vengeance 1600 is that you will see no performance benefit with 2133 or Dominator Platinum and the Vengeance is still very good RAM. A Corsair 760i or 860i seeing as you want over the top will sort your power out and a case is up to you.

ok one more question do I go for 4 GB 680's or 2 GB 680's?

[Kruziik_Kel]

If it's soley for gaming save yourself some money. Seeing as you want to go top end, a 3770K, A ROG board or P8Z77 Asus board, a 4GB 670 or 680 - they'll handle 3 screen gaming and be able to deliver atleast 60fps constantly across the screens. 64GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600 seeing as you want to make a RAM disk. The reason why I say Vengeance 1600 is that you will see no performance benefit with 2133 or Dominator Platinum and the Vengeance is still very good RAM. A Corsair 760i or 860i seeing as you want over the top will sort your power out and a case is up to you.

Well if your gaming at high res over 3 monitors 7970 or 7950 and eyefinity are the way to go Nvidia cards just dont have the same performance over multiple monitors or higher resolution and from what ive seen suffer badly when you turn up the AA and even with the 4GB (IIRC the memory bus is horrible so thats no good anyway) the Radeon cards will overclock a lot better so overall you will be better off

[Marzov]

If it's soley for gaming save yourself some money. Seeing as you want to go top end, a 3770K, A ROG board or P8Z77 Asus board, a 4GB 670 or 680 - they'll handle 3 screen gaming and be able to deliver atleast 60fps constantly across the screens. 64GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600 seeing as you want to make a RAM disk. The reason why I say Vengeance 1600 is that you will see no performance benefit with 2133 or Dominator Platinum and the Vengeance is still very good RAM. A Corsair 760i or 860i seeing as you want over the top will sort your power out and a case is up to you.

hmmmm...... I'm a nvidia person so yeah :D

[Kruziik_Kel]

If you are only gaming (and using a RAMDisk for whatever reason) then spending that amount of money is insane.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.99 @ Microcenter)

CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE 78.1 CFM CPU Cooler ($79.99 @ Newegg)

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme3 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($104.99 @ Newegg)

Memory: Mushkin Essentials 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($149.98 @ Outlet PC)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.98 @ Outlet PC)

Storage: Samsung 830 Series 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($109.99 @ Newegg)

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 3GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($379.99 @ Newegg)

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 3GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($379.99 @ Newegg)

Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case ($119.99 @ Amazon)

Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 850W 80 PLUS Silver Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($122.75 @ Amazon)

Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($16.98 @ Outlet PC)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ Outlet PC)

Total: $1814.60

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-02-06 04:16 EST-0500)

that is already way overkill beyond that the only thing that wont just be more expensive is stupid doing a custom loop spend some of the rest on some good monitors and a mech keyboard ect

[Kruziik_Kel]

If it's soley for gaming save yourself some money. Seeing as you want to go top end, a 3770K, A ROG board or P8Z77 Asus board, a 4GB 670 or 680 - they'll handle 3 screen gaming and be able to deliver atleast 60fps constantly across the screens. 64GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600 seeing as you want to make a RAM disk. The reason why I say Vengeance 1600 is that you will see no performance benefit with 2133 or Dominator Platinum and the Vengeance is still very good RAM. A Corsair 760i or 860i seeing as you want over the top will sort your power out and a case is up to you.

Being a fanboy gets you nowhere always buy what is best at the time and this generation unless you use CUDA or want a workstaion card AMD perform better for less