Goner

I appreciate all of your suggestions. I went with the Corsair K90 amd M60.

Wired are the best, right?

I am finishing up my new build and need a new keyboard and mouse. I play COD, MW and BF3. What would you suggest? PS I have big hands.

I just finished my new build and I am about to buy a new monitor. The question is: 3D or not? Does anyone use 3D to game or is it just a fad? I am looking at the 23.6" Viewsonic but could get two regular monitors if I don't go 3D... What do you think? I have two EVGA 570OCs so my system can run it and I don't have room on my desk to run 3 monitors. I play COD/MW3 and BF3. Thanks in advance,

I'm just using the standard Intel cpu cooling fan right now, but I need to get something else as the Intel device didn't lock into the motherboard at all 4 corners so i am not sure it is cooling as well as it should...probably an air cooler like the cooler master v8. I am also only using one 200mm in the top but will go with a second if I go liquid cooling like the Corsair H100. Here are the pics. I think I'm pretty much done although I may have to do more once I get a cooler and I will probably add a card reader. Now a monitor...probably a Viewsonic V3D245 or the Planar SA2311W. Sorry I messed up the formating of this message.

I just wanted to thank everyone for all of your advice and suggestions. I ordered all my parts from Newegg at 11:59 PM Sunday (and picked it up from their will-call on Tuesday...gotta love Newegg will-call service) and just got it all together today! Here is what I got for total $2,400... -COOLER MASTER HAF X Blue Edition RC-942-KKN3 Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower -Corsair Pro Series HX1050 1050W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready PLUS SILVER Certified -ASUS P8P67 DELUXE (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX -Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core -G.Skill RIP DDR3 1600, 4 X 4 gig -Mushkin Chronos Deluxe SSD-120GB SATA III -2 X EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB -SAMSUNG Black 12X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA Internal Blu-ray -WD 500 gig Caviar (Black) -Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit Well it's been two years since I played on XI servers so I will be up and running tomorrow!

What do you think about SSD? I was sold on the intel 320 but I just noticed it is only SATA II. It looks like all of the SATA III SSDs have problems reading the reviews.

Cavey ALSO REMEMBER, never use all your memory slots, better to ramp up each stick and use fewer slots, than the same memory over all your slots. Works much better. So you suggest 2 X 8 gig chips or is 2 X 4 enough for my application. By the way...thanks for the advice!

Cavey No need to liquid cool the GPUs. I have that haf x case with 2 x 580GTXs and have had no problems. What I would do, is get the extra top fan. You can see in the picture above, there are two top fan locations. It only comes with one. Also get a CPU closed circuit liquid cooling system. I use the corsair H70, with the fans in a push/pull setup (this means having a fan either side of the radiator. The outside pushing air against the radiator, and the inside fan pulling it away from the rad into the case), and it works like a charm. So have the front, side, and rear fans pulling air in, and the 2 tops fans pushing it out of the case. Remember heat rises, so this is the most efficient set up. NOTE:- If you want to use RAID array, Home Premuim only gives basic raid, you need Pro or above to get all the flavours. Naturally hardware raid is better. Do I need to us more cooling than the stock intel setup if I am not going to overclock? A buddy of mine is trying to sell me on the Cool Master V8 air cooler but I am concerned about conflict with the ram heat exchangers and the size of it and a conflict with the fans.

KaptCrunch the 570sc is a ref design, the 580 waterblock will fit go with corsair H100 and cool 2 GPU's missing something.......yes 60" 1080p 240Hz screen and long HDMI 1.4 cable can pick up a good deal on screen/moniter this time of yr Am I going to need to liquid cool the GPUs? I not sure I really need the sc cards anyway.

tsw 8.5 With that cooler make sure you have room for your ram ..corsair vengeance has higher heatsinks ..so make sure you have room ..or get the Gskill rip jaw ..if you look at pigdogs post on bench marks you will see the cooler in my cases and his look at the ram ..and you might want to look at the XFX power supplys ..just make sure you stay with a single rail .. and with the i 7 2600k you will have all you need ..i have the 2500k and have no probs with any thing ..16 gig ram 2+260 o/c a70 cooler and xfx 850 pro ..haf 922 Thanks for the heads-up on the cooler/ram conflict. I can't find the pigdog thread though...

I am getting close to ordering parts for my new DYI system and it occurs to me that if I don't go SLI I could afford to go with a 6 core CPU. I am mostly looking to build a home computer that will also run MW3 and other FPS games and my budget is $2,500. Here is what I am planning to order: -COOLERMASTER HAF X Blue Edition RC-942-KKN3 Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower - CorsairPro Series HX1050 1050W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready PLUS SILVER Certified -ASUSP8P67 DELUXE (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX -IntelCore i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core -CorsairCAFA70 120mm A70 Dual-Fan -CorsairMemory Vengeance 16 Quad Channel Kit DDR3 1600 MHz 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM -Intel320 Series SSD-SA2CW120G3K5 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC -WesternDigital Caviar Black 1 TB SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache WD1002FAEX -2X EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB -SAMSUNGBlack 12X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA Internal Blu-ray -MicrosoftWindows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit Also, I could buy (newegg) a 1.5 tb hard drive for $40 less than the 1 tb from newegg. Am I missing something?

I want to purchase a new computer for gaming and general home computer. I play mostly FPS (COD/MW3) with a 23" and a 19" monitor. I want to upgrade to a 27' monitor and will keep the 23". I have an extensive music collection and would also like to do some picture/video editing. I do live in a dusty environment and I don't really care about noise within reason. My budget is about 2,500 but if I can get the new monitor to that would be great. I am looking at the Digital Storm Ode level 3...is this too much? Thanks in advance, Goner Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Pre-built Digital Storm ODE Level 3 Exterior Finish: White Exterior Paint Finish Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish Processor: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz (Unlocked CPU for Extreme Overclocking) (Quad Core) Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth P67 (Intel P67 Chipset) (New & Improved B3 Revision Without SATA 3G Issue) System Memory: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance Series (High-Performance) Power Supply: 800W Corsair GS (Dual SLI Compatible) Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (120GB Solid State (By: Corsair) (Model: Force GT Series CSSD-F120GBGT-BK) (SATA 6Gbps) Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (1TB Hitachi/Seagate (7200 RPM) (32MB Cache) Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x) Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections) Video Card(s): 2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1.2GB (Includes PhysX Technology) Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio Extreme Cooling: Digital Storm Vortex Liquid CPU Cooler (High-Performance Edition) 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) CPU Boost: Stage 2: Overclock CPU 4.5GHz to 4.8GHz (Requires Pro or Deluxe Series Motherboard) Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition) Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows 7 CD) Warranty: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 3 Year Limited Warranty

Delicate Sound Of Thunder...Dogs of War. Scott Page is great on this one! (sax player on the live stuff)

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