Review and Size Help

I think that was will be contained inside.

the gpu oc is very little, I think like 4%

the ram won't make a big difference in games, nothing you will notice either way, so just go with DS ram, the parts are mainly the same.

if you want to be able to go sli 480 go with the 1250w psu.

but if that is what you want/need then looks good.

Well I have thought about the SSD route however i am an obessive compulsive disc clean up and defrag person and have read somewhere that your not supposed to do this with SSD drives?  What are the rules for SSD just leave it alone?  I might need Medication before i order one ahahah ahahaha

ok thanks so when you build a Dual LC SLI with CPU and chipset you get the rear radiator as well.  The more i look at my desk set up i think i can make the bigun fit with the rear rad i was told it is 28" long front to back in the hailstorm case so decisions decisions. 

Originally posted by SemperFuzz Well I have thought about the SSD route however i am an obessive compulsive disc clean up and defrag person and have read somewhere that your not supposed to do this with SSD drives?  What are the rules for SSD just leave it alone?  I might need Medication before i order one ahahah ahahaha

That 600GB 15000RPM 16MB Cache Seagate Cheetah is $569 from DS. If it performs anything like Western Digital's VelociRaptors, and I'm sure it does as conventional platter HDDs just do not get fast, then it is very literately only 10-20% faster than a $90 1TB 7200RPM 32MB Cache HDD. Here are some benchmarks for an example. Is $500 worth 10% faster performance and half the space? Holy God no man, complete waste of money. Stay far far away.

Enter SSDs. A good SSD will have easily 50 to 100 times the small file and access speeds, twice the large file sequential speeds, automatically cleans ("defrags") itself, is completely silent, and loses very little performance as the drive is filled (HDD performance dive bombs as it is filled). SSDs completely blow HDDs away in most regards, no contest, they are in completely different leagues. Their only downside is their price, at 2.5-3GB/$ we're talking over two and a half times more expensive than even that ridiculously priced Seagate Cheetah.

Luckily there is a simple yet elegant and cost effective solution. Get a smaller SSD for the things that benefit most from an SSD, OS/apps and maybe even some games, and a large normal HDD for everything else, games/music/movies/photos. Usually this means a 40GB, 80GB, or 160GB Intel SSD (top of the line performance for the price) and any old 1TB 7200RPM HDD for the rest. At DS this would come out to $265 for a 80GB Intel and $95 for the 1TB. If you want more space for games on the SSD and have money to burn you can get the 160GB Intel from DS for $497, but since games benefit very little from SSDs you're paying a huge premium for very little gain, and I wouldn't recommend that big of an SSD to many people.

If you're that worried about your obsessive compulsive drive cleaning habits, Intel has the Intel SSD Toolbox which has the Intel SSD Optimizer that you can freely run to clean the SSD. The Optimizer is basically an on-demand and more thorough version of the Intel SSD's automatic self cleaning. And of course you can still freely defrag the conventional HDD.

When r u orderin???

ya the gtx 400's need alot of power

In an effort to save money i believe i will go air cooled this time as my last two builds have been LC.  Here is what i came up with based on all the excellent input from everyone.  I added the larger PS for future add of another GTX 480 for SLI.

So what about Zalman? Those look pretty good 2!

Dang i just boosted my build a 1000 by adding the Corsair AX Gold PS and the Sapphire Toxic 5970

don't like your mobo.

very bad idea with the 5970 IMO, it still a dual card and will still get beat by 2 x 5870/480, specially the 2Gb version of 5870.

Touch V12XT Aerocool is a waste of your money, it will not control your case fans.

you don't need that corsair psu, if the enermax is cheaper then go with that, but don't get me wrong I think its a great psu.

this ticket you had was much better 411468, just change the mobo to evga.

Edited by DST4ME - 04 Jun 2010 at 12:31am

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