$3,000 budget Input?

I think people will recommend the Corsair power supply, but a bigger problem is the GTX 590. Dual GPU cards are not popular here - it will probably be recommended that you go with 580 sli or even 570 sli. 

Although I myself have considered the 590 since I've seen some pretty good reviews.  Some issues are that it pumps hot air directly into the case, and also that it is inherently less powerful than two 580s. Nevertheless I still like it.

Edit: just saw the thread by mattshredder. Looks like the 590 is really unpopular. May order one myself just to be controversial but would doubtless regret it if they're right.  

Edited by BandGap - 10 Jun 2011 at 9:10pm

Let add some info to what these 2 guys said.

first 590 is a very bad idea, it gets beat by sli 570/580, they go bad sooner, when one gpu goes bad you are without gpu, in sli 570/580 you lose only one gpu when one goes bad, tri sli 570/580 beats sli 590, yoyu will need a 1200w psu, and last you can't run sli 590 on the p67 platform, it will need 2 x16 lanes, you don't have that, pay no attention to false advertising of mobos.

Now having said all that, for your res we recommend going sli/cf 580/6970 with option to go tri sli if needed, keep that into account as the p67 can't do tri sli correctly.

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if you want high aa settings stick with cf 6970 or go with 3GB sli 580.

if high aa settings is not important to you, go with sli 570.

lol I feel like you didn't read my post, most of the stuff you are asking is answered there, np we will go over them again

1. this has 2 parts actually:

A. all psus are not the same, the 1000w corsair is the one you want, and No, a 1000w can't run quad sli 590 or tri sli 580/570, with the oc and everything you gonna be pushing the psu pass the 80% mark, which is not what you want to do.

B. the p67 platform can't so quad/tri sli anyways, well it can but you will not get quad/tri sli performance, for tri sli setup you want to wait for the highend platform of SB that is going to be x79 platform, the p67 is the midrange platform.

2. if you look at my config, I went with cf 6970 for that reason, you can go sli 3GB 580s, but the 2GB is plenty, and ati does better with multi monitors.


3. Ok well first, are you saying in 4 months you gonna change the cpu and mobo? if so why buy a pc now? that makes zero sense and lot of money down the drain.

second temp is one limit to oc, the other you want to watch out for is vcore, no matter what your oc, if your vcore is above 1.4 - 1.42 you are looking at early death, at 1.5 you looking at about a year or so of life with 24/7 use.

in short the oc range I picked for you should give you good oc/temps/vcore, you don't really need stage 4 lc for this range, a Noctua or the a70 will do.

the haf x is a full-tower case, for dual sli or tri sli you gonna want a room y case, I'm not sure where you got the idea that the haf x is not a big case.

for dust you can get filters for the haf's fans.

the haf x comes with 3 x 200mm fans but it has room on top for a 4th, so yes:

Ask DS specifically for this fan to be added to the top, so you endup with 4 x 200mm fans:

haf 200mm non led fan

you want the front and side big fans blowing air in, while the 2 top big fans suck air out, hot air rises so lets help it out with the 2 big fans on top sucking it up/out.

Edited by DST4ME - 11 Jun 2011 at 7:21pm

honestly other then needing tri sli ability, I would not see any reason to change mobo/psu.

but its upto you, btw your pc got fired probably from the lan line, that is why you got fried, the lan didn't go in the surge protector.

what are your pcs's symptoms, you could just revive it with a $100 psu.

My pleasure

Edited by DST4ME - 11 Jun 2011 at 9:20pm

probably the same or lower.

if you have integrated gpu, it needs to be enabled in bios, otherwise it the gpu in the pci lane.

so far sounds like gpu problem, if mobo has integrated gpu, remove gpu and go into bios and enable integrated and see what happens.

you sure its not the monitor? its a desktop right?