Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: ebfd11 on October 06, 2013, 07:02:21 AM
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Case
Silverstone Raven 90 degree rotated case..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163180
Mother Board
ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z ATX 990FX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131876
Processor
AMD FX-9370 Visschera
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113346
Video Cards
EVGA 660 FTW vid cards x2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130836
Memory
Mushkin Enhanched 16 gig
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226429
Hard Drives
Mushkin Enhanched Chronos 240 gig SSD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226371
Western Digital Black 2 TB hard drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136792
Power Supply
PC Power and cooling 1200w 80+ Platnum PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703037
I hope to get 3 of these monitors...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236335
So whats your opinions?? plz be nice...
LawnDart
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I would forgo the 120's and go for: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163213 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163213)
If you're going Silverstone, get THE CASE.
Not a fan PC Power and Cooling anymore. OCZ has potatod the name.
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The 2 things that stand out to me at least;
The FX-9370 is rather pointless. It's simply an up-clocked FX-8320/50, albeit possibly more stable since it's factory rated for the clocks. An 8320/50 can hit almost 5GHz on a good air or closed-loop liquid cooler (4.8GHz is my 8320 max stable within preferred voltage). For that kind of money I'd say go with an i5 or drop it down to an 8320/50 and just OC it.
PC P&C 1200W is a bit overkill for just 2x 660s. I know 2x GTX 580s can run just fine on an 850w PSU. Unless you have future plans to need that much somehow I'd personally suggest no more than 850w from SeaSonic or Corsair.
On the GPU note, isn't it normally better to just get the single best GPU one can afford at the time?
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Looks to be a good build.
You do realize that AH does not use more than 2 cores out of a processor, and SLI is not used.
Some might argue that the PSU is too large wattage wise. There was a thread up about PSU's and overkill wattages
Why select a PCI-e 2.0 mobo but a 3.0 vid card?
Why not go for triple channel DDR3 ram instead of dual?
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yeah the power supply is way too much which is not good based on all I have read here.
lawn out of curiosity, you building this one for you? because I know your existing one is pretty fast already, however if it was me, I would rather spend the money on 3 27in monitors with a higher resolution than 1080p.
semp
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Looks to be a good build.
You do realize that AH does not use more than 2 cores out of a processor, and SLI is not used.
Some might argue that the PSU is too large wattage wise. There was a thread up about PSU's and overkill wattages.
good luck
With AMD even two cores for AH is questionable. And the overkill wattage has been explained in at least two threads this year.
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Why select a PCI-e 2.0 mobo but a 3.0 vid card?
Why not go for triple channel DDR3 ram instead of dual?
Only 1 Mobo (that I can think of) supports AMD and PCI-E 3.0, the Sabertooth Gen3. Even in a 2.0 slot it won't affect the card anyways.
As for Dual/Tri, AMD simply doesn't support Tri-channel. I think Intel supported it in the first i-series, but now it's Dual/Quad in the 2-4th gen?