New to building own gaming machine

Ya, a bit NO on that config for you lol. Its all wrong and will suck in tri sli. Oced gpus are not recommended here, we can do them higher ourselves to a point where we actually see a difference, and stock oced cards tend to fail sooner then non oced ones.

what is the res you gonna be gaming at? do you have the monitor or are you looking for one? if looking for monitor what is the budget?

Edited by DST4ME - 31 May 2011 at 9:22pm

Um.. lower your OC stage, to stage 1. For gaming you will not notice anything with the OC being that high. So for long term life span on your CPU lower it to stage 1. No need for the 1200 PSU, as TRi SLi doesn't scale well on a p67 board/build. You're better going with a 1000 PSU.

Upgrading the fans you'll actually have louder smaller fans. The hafx comes with a front 230mm fan, top 200mm fan. So if you upgrade to the smaller 120mm fans.. there would be no point. Keep the stock fans, and ask DS to add a 200mm Coolermaster fan to the top, so you'll have 2 200mm on top.

Edited by ironmb - 01 Jun 2011 at 12:41am

around 24" you looking at around 1900 x 1200 res, for that res a single 570/580 can't give smooth game play in all games at highest settings with good aa, you will need sli.

at 1900 x 1200 you will not be able to tell the difference between sli 570/580, so no point in wasting your money on 580 or 580 sli.

this will give you single 570 with option ot add a second later:

Here you go Ticket# 564353 --- $2419 (To see this build click here)

Copy of Specifications:
Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Cooler Master 942 HAF X
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz (Unlocked CPU for Extreme Overclocking) (Quad Core)
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 Deluxe (Intel P67 Chipset) (New & Improved B3 Revision Without SATA 3G Issue)
System Memory: 8GB 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: 1x (120GB Solid State (By: Intel) (Model: 320 Series SSDSA2CW120G3K5)
Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (1TB Western Digital Caviar (7200 RPM) (64MB Cache) (Model: Black Edition)
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks
Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x)
Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card: 1x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1.2GB (Includes PhysX Technology)
Add-on Card: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio
Extreme Cooling: AIR: Stage 2: Corsair A70 Dual 120mm Fans High Performance Cooler
H20 Tube Color:- Not Applicable, I do not have a FrostChill or Sub-Zero LCS Cooling System Selected
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (Red)
Enhancements: - No Thanks
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
Boost Processor: Stage 2: Overclock CPU 4.5GHz to 4.8GHz (Requires Pro or Deluxe Series Motherboard)
Boost Video Card: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
Boost Memory: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my memory
Boost OS: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition)
Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows 7 CD)
Virus Protection: - No Thanks
Office: - No Thanks
Benchmarking: - No Thanks
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Surge Shield: - No Thanks
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Warranty: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 3 Year Limited Warranty

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

this pc is what you call balanced in power, a pc that is balanced in power offers you the most/best it can do period.

you got a great case for great airflow, you got a great cpu oced to 4.5GHz or higher (4.5 will be more then you need), you got 8GB of ram (more then you need), single 570 gtx and the ability go sli if needed with 1000w corsair (5 year warranty) and the deluxe mobo, you got the A70 which beats the stage 2 lc coolers, you got the best reliable ssd the intel 320 (only ssd with 5 year warranty right now), and the fast 1TB BC for storage and fast transfer for storage, remember:

HDD1 = fast small drive: os/apps/games

HDD2 = regular large drive: media/personal/work file storage

the other bs stuff that did nothing but waste money are gone.

For your res you will not need tri sli nor will you be able to tel the difference between dual sli 570 and tri sli 580.

but if for some strange reason you still want tri sli, then I suggest you wait for the highend sandybridge platform that comes out Q4 of this year (x79 platform), the 2600k and the p67 platform are the midrange sandybridge cpu and platform.

Edited by DST4ME - 01 Jun 2011 at 1:42am

Why does your build cost $100 more than mine? and we both have the same thing. you may not know this and the word liquid cooling may have given you the wrong impression but I have the best cpu cooler between our configs.

for monitor wait till it goes on sale for $270 or $250 and get this:

Dell UltraSharp U2311H 23

its an IPS panel and has superior picture quality.

Edited by DST4ME - 01 Jun 2011 at 2:00am

One last question, should i do the OS boost?

And thank you agian for the help

Ivy bridge is different story, but the x79 will be out Q4.

that is not very tick tock is it

I would not get Ivy anyways, its highend SB or haswell IMHO, cause haswell is gonna be a new architecture.

Edited by DST4ME - 01 Jun 2011 at 3:25am