Will i be able to game well with this?

Not a good config, no offense.  But you have a great budget that could produce a great rig.  It's really late so I'm going to be brief. Don't go with CF 5850's when you could go CF 6870's which will beat a single 580 and actually cling kind of close in benchmarks to 2x sli gtx 580's.  These cards are decent by themselves, but with crossfire they are amazing the cf scaling is really great on the 6870's.  Also, don't go with the liquid cooling, the only way liquid cooling is a good option is when you have the money to get a high end setup and are going for high high overclocks.  Stick with the noctua air cooling and you will be in great shape.  Also I would consider going with the HAF 932 case over the Maelstrom because it has better air cooling.  Also with your budget you can fit in a nice 80 gb SSD to put your OS and a couple of the games you play most on, and the rest on the TB HDD.  This rig would crush anything I repeat "anything" you could throw at it.  Also, save yourself some money and buy your monitor and keyboard on newegg.com. Here's the config: 458552.  Click Load Configuration at the top of the screen and type this in.

Edited by WardTheSteak - 18 Nov 2010 at 4:54am

Agreed, 5850s are pretty silly when 6870s are both cheaper and perform better. Though personally I'd rather have a single 580, the average FPS might be a bit lower, but it is likely more fluid with closer minimum and maximum FPS scores.

Plus it saves you a PCIe slot and you can avoid ATI drivers, which are the devil.

I agree with Dragoon. I think you should also take a peek at the link in my sig
the Enders Builds has several price points targeted with only some minor changes needed, say the Sabertooth MoBo and the 580 instead of a 480...


Edited by MagiK - 18 Nov 2010 at 9:06am

wc, he is factoring in 3k for monitor, keyboard, and speakers setup.  So dual 580's might be a little above his price range, by about 3 to 400 or so.  And yes, either go with a 580, or the 6870's.  If you plan on watching a lot of movies on this rig, then I would probably suggest the 6870's because ATI has much better video performance.  But, if you're not a videophile like me and that's not important to you I would just go with the 580.  And wc stage 3 liquid cooling is a step down and more expensive than going with the noctua.  Air cooling is all you will need with your budget, to get a truly beneficial liquid cooling setup it would be much more expensive.

What?...You mean just becuase I want to spend $3000 doesn't mean I have too?? oh my!!!    Just kidding Sarah...though I do have to say that my "budget" was $8k and I ended up spending $9.3k  so I guess it works both ways