I am looking at the below, am I wasting money that I won't see a performance return on?

High end gaming without obsolescence.  Photoshop and Video processing.

do you do video processing now? if yes how much ram do you need for that?

also post your ticket number, what is the res for that 2707wfp? 1900 x 1200 or 2560 x 1600?

that is not the best way to config, lot of waste of money there that will make no difference.

Edited by DST4ME - 25 Mar 2010 at 2:46pm

From what I gather of the 2707wfp is 1920x1200.
And I concur with DST, this setup is a ginormous waster of money, the most egregious of which are
-The 980X cpu
-Quadfire 5970
-Internet Card
-Zalman upgarde Fans

You might be able to justify the 980X if you make living off number crunching but I promise you everything else is a waste of money.

DST4ME will be able to knock together a system that's substantially cheaper and yet on par with what you configured


Edited by sirsiddius - 25 Mar 2010 at 2:57pm

if you have bottle necks then more ram isn't gonna help that.


Here you go Ticket# 395155 --- Price: $8364 (To see this build click here) Price after current promotion $7864

Copy of Specifications:
Chassis Model: Digital Storm HailStorm (Black OPS Edition)
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 980X 3.33GHz (Hexa-Core) (Extreme Performance)
Motherboard: EVGA X58 Classified 3X SLI (Intel X58 Chipset) (Supports Triple SLI or CrossFire)
System Memory: 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Digital Storm Certified Performance Series (Highly Recommended) (Hand Tested)
Power Supply: 1000W Corsair (Dual/Triple/Quad SLI Compatible)
Expansion Bay: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 2x (160GB Solid State (By: Intel) (Extreme Performance) (Model: SSDSA2MH160G2R5)
Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (2TB Western Digital (7200 RPM) (64MB Cache) (SATA) (Extreme Speed WD2001FASS 2TB)
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks
Optical Drive 1: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 22x / CD-Writer 48x)
Optical Drive 2: Blu-Ray Writer/Reader (Burn Blu-Ray discs and play them)
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card: 2x CrossFire Dual (ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB)
Add-on Card: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Creative Labs X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion (Includes Front I/O) (PCI-Express Slot Based)
Extreme Cooling: H20: Stage 6: Sub-Zero LCS Dual Loop: CPU & Dual SLI/CrossFire Video Cards
H20 Tube Color:Red Tubing with High-Performance Fluid (UV Lighting Reactive)
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (UV) (Creates Glowing Effect for H20 Tubes)
Enhancements: - No Thanks
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
Boost Processor: Stage 3: Overclock the processor between 4.2GHz to 4.4GHz (Requires i7 980X Processor)
Boost Video Card: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
Boost Memory: Memory Fan Kit Only (Does not include memory overclocking service)
Boost OS: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64-Bit Edition)
Restore Kit: Digital Storm Specialized Recovery System (DVD Image Based)
Virus Protection: - No Thanks
Office: - No Thanks
Benchmarking: - No Thanks
Install/Test Game: - No Thanks
Display: - No Thanks
Surge Shield: - No Thanks
Speakers: - No Thanks
Keyboard: - No Thanks
Mouse: - No Thanks
External Storage: - No Thanks
Exclusive T-Shirt: - No Thanks
Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 5-15 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed
Warranty: 5 Year Platinum Care Extended Parts & Labor Warranty (Highly Recommended)

at 2560 x 1600 all you need for smooth gaming is 2 x 5870, as I mentioned more ram is not going to help bottle necking, but if the system needs more ram to work then go ahead and add 6 more GB to my config, but if you want to help with bottle neck then you need to find some good ram with great timings and ask DS to use those, that will cost you more money but it will help with bottle necking.

you have contradictive stuff, you got upgraded fans on a LC system, not needed, and very loud fans, noise package is pointless, trap noise trap heat, in short I took out the bs you don't need and left what counts.

as for monitor the 3007wfp was ok but the new 3008 model is much better.

for gaming not much but for other tasks yes you could get a boost in those tasks, but then the latency of the 2000MHz here is not that great.

lol sorry that is suppose to be in raid, otherwise you can't have two drives, and yes it was suppose to be raid 0, I don't normally advise raid so I forgot to pick it, but I think for you its the right move, gives you room to work with large files and give you more speed which you seem to be after. and I chose the intel cause they are the fastest they have here.

the 5970 is internal cf, so its 2 x 5870 on one card, this hurts its over all performance and also produces more heat.

2 x 5870 out performs 1 x 5970 and 3 x 5870 beast out quad fire 2 x 5970. scaling is not as good on quad fire. Also people make a mistake and think that the 5970 has 2GB of ram, its does not, it actually has 1GB ram per gpu and since there is 2 of them, they say its 2GB but in cf ram does not combine, for example if you played gta4 with hight aa and af, it needs 1.5GB of vram, if you tried to do this with a 5970 you would fail, cause you have only 1GB of ram to use.

also remember rule number 1 in gpu is: whenever possible use a single card solution.

IMO 5970 is for people that need 2 x 5870 but can't afford it or don't have the pci lanes to spare, or are just not informed and think they have a 2GB card which they don't.

well the fans on the rad for the LC that they use here are loud, you may want to ask them to use low cfm fans like scythe "GentleTyphoon", otherwise its gonna be loud, the same with case fans, again this is something you have to ask DS specifically to use and it will cost a bit more but it will get you quiet or close to it as much as possible.

My pleasure

Edited by DST4ME - 25 Mar 2010 at 8:32pm

classified will give you two 16x and 1 x 8x.

I think the 4x classified will give you three 16x.

I guess I will call and find out exactly which model they are offering.  I sent that question in as an e-mail and got a vague answer.  Yes this board will do Triple SLI.....

759 has not been made for 9 months now.

Got an answer.  They are currently building with 170-BL-E762-A1 but it is subject to change.

Yeah I was reading elsewhere when researching the Corsair 800 (Hailstorm/Black ops)  that for this MB there is a plate that has to be modified.