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AT what res boss? metro and crysis will kick your butt at your budget if your res is at 1900 x 1200 or higher.

AT your res with sli 560 you looking at around 28 fps average, at highest settings and 4xaa. same settings in crysis and you are looking at around 50 fps average.

we can oc them and get close to 570 sli performance, but you will need a bigger psu, the mobo will also need to be changed:

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Edited by DST4ME - 11 Feb 2011 at 2:52am

IMHO with the high oc you will need to do with both gpus and the oc on the cpu, a 850w hx corsair or higher is best.

You can request that DS uses the 850w HX corsair, but I think the price will come out to be the same as the 1000w, you can always buy the 850w yourself and ship it to DS, see which comes out to be cheaper for you.

Also I made some mistakes on my config, its been changed, please go back and look at it now.

Edited by DST4ME - 11 Feb 2011 at 3:00am

I have never oced one of those but I assume you can hit 900 to 920, pass 920 is where I don't know since I have not oced one.

if you don't oc the gpus then the 750w might be enough, but you still need to change the mobo.

Edited by DST4ME - 11 Feb 2011 at 3:12am

Don't be, the way you OC is raising things just a little then doing a stress test, passes the test, you raise a bit more and repeat test, and you keep going till you get to where you need to be or the test fails, indicating more voltage or that your card can't be oced higher, or the temp is too high, OC on gpu is much easier then cpu, then again SB has made it very easy, so that comment may no longer hold true

Edited by DST4ME - 11 Feb 2011 at 3:23am

LOL trust me you can't have worst luck then me, but if you do it little by little there is no way to mess things up.

LOL I stand by my comment, if you do it right and little by little then nothing can go wrong, now if you don't follow exact directions then I can't blame the hardware for that

LOL then you should have np ocing the gpus. even with your situation

Building your own will save you something like $400 or less, but then you have no DS warranty and testing and etc.

Ya most of us can build it ourselves, but who wants to deal with that anymore, unless you got the time and patience for it

I still enjoy putting pcs together for friends and family, but for myself, it seems like I rather kill myself

Well take your time the SB are having that mobo issue now anyways.

The lighting is red, and you can always change the 200mm fans to oem red or blue led, keep in mind in the 922 you can add a third 200mm fan to the side, and just like the front and top 200mm fan, it can be led or not.

oem 200mm blue led

oem 200mm red led

you need to either change them yourself or ask Ds specifically to use those fans for front/top and add one to the side. You said you build your own, I would get these fans and add them myself and save a few dollars.