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Post Date: 2009-12-08

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    Posted: 08 Dec 2009 at 6:47pm
Hello.
As most of you people have heard or have seen through all of my topics, I am currently looking at parts to buy so I can build my kick ass computer for gaming, that I want to last for 5 years (basically through med. school).
Budget: 2300 USD ($)

Requirements:
1) Resolution 1920x1200
2) High frames per second gaming.
3) Future-proof. Upgradable. Overclock-able.
4) Games: Crysis, Call of Duty, Star Craft II.

Questions:
1) EVGA X58 Classified Motherboard. Is it worth it? (Yes I might want to clock the CPU a little. Cause I am buying the Noctua AIR cooler)

2) Do I have to get the i-7 920? Or can I buy a cheaper one and clock it?

3) How much memory is necessary? (example: 3Gb, 1600 MHz corsair Dominator)

4) What brand of the ATI HD 5870 GDDR5 card is recommended? (MSI, Sapphire, Asus, PowerColor, XFX or HIS?)

5) Is the Cooler Master HAF 922 midi tower good enough, or should I go with the 932 full tower?

NB! Please answer with numbers as I have written it, cause almost allways when people answer, they write it so I don't understand. (not too god with english, sorry).
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  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Dec 2009 at 6:50pm
1. Classified is good but if 16x and 8x are ok with you the LE will do just fine.

2. 920 is the way to go.

3. 6GB, 1600MHz

4. Sapphire

5. 932
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  Quote Ambidex Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Dec 2009 at 6:56pm
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Do you mean that the Classified has better than 16x?
Or do you mean it has more than just one of each 16x & 8x?
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  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Dec 2009 at 7:01pm
If I'm not mistaken the classifed has 2 x 16x while LE has 1 x 16x
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  Quote Kyu Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Dec 2009 at 7:16pm
Originally posted by DST4ME

If I'm not mistaken the classifed has 2 x 16x while LE has 1 x 16x
 
might sound confusing, but what DST means is once you go xfire.
the x16 becomes x8
so you'll be running dual x8 pci-e
but if you have 1 video card, it'll be running of x16 (single slot)
run 2 and both will run x8 per slot. sort of splits it.
so for future proof classified is the way you want to go.
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  Quote Ambidex Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Dec 2009 at 7:16pm
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Thank you
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  Quote Ambidex Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Dec 2009 at 8:57pm
Should I get 3-way or the 4-way CLASSIFIED?
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  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Dec 2009 at 11:00pm
3 way, nobody has a use for 4x and it won't fit in most cases.
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  Quote Kyu Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 09 Dec 2009 at 11:48am
go 3 way, besides even up to tri sli you wont gain much vs dual gpu sli.
and quad isnt a major jump after 3, would post a link based on this but too lazy to look for it lol
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  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 09 Dec 2009 at 4:16pm
3 way does 3x sli so that is all you will need ever, specially with new card that are out and coming out.
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