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Looks good, get the G.Skill PI Blacks for your ram. Also, I would change from that Antec PSU to this Newegg.com - PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI NVIDIA SLI Certified (Dual 8800 GTX and below) CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply - Power Supplies
Get an aftermarket cpu hsf too. One of the best ones out right now is this Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme-1366 RT CPU Heatsink (Socket LGA 1336) - FrozenCPU.com
Get an aftermarket cpu hsf too. One of the best ones out right now is this Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme-1366 RT CPU Heatsink (Socket LGA 1336) - FrozenCPU.com
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Im jaded when it comes to Gskill. Its given me a lot of blue screens over the years...
The corsairs are fine, don't worry. I've just heard alot of people say that in general, corsair doesn't overclock very well and I think they don't use the high end chips but its not a huge deal unless you are looking to overclock alot. I just swear by G.Skill because my old HZ's overclocked like a beast with ease and my new ones are awesome too, except I wish I had waited just another week until they released those PI Blacks.
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That build is... monstrous.
I was looking at the x58 motherboards a little bit; I'm getting an i7 build as well, soon. I think the EVGA will be a nice mobo, but you may want to take a look at the Gigabyte UD5 x58.
It seems to have all the pros of the EVGA (XFire and SLI), except it also has a nicer PCI Express 2.0 config., which is where your lovely Core 216's will go. The UD-5 has a 16x/16x/8x setup, while the EVGA only has a 16x/8x. So, the UD-5 would give you more room for more cards, but more importantly, better bandwidth so as to take full advantage of them (and not bottleneck them).
The Gig also has 12GB more maximum memory.
Choice is yours though, EVGA is a great company to buy from from what I hear, and its board might also have more USB ports and such.
EDIT: Ok, all of that might have been useless... I think I misread the stuff on newegg, EVGA can also go 16x/16x/8x, just that you can choose to let one slot have 8x bandwidth rather than 16x. Not sure why you'd want to do that, maybe power consumption? Sorry if I confused/angered anybody with that crap.
I was looking at the x58 motherboards a little bit; I'm getting an i7 build as well, soon. I think the EVGA will be a nice mobo, but you may want to take a look at the Gigabyte UD5 x58.
It seems to have all the pros of the EVGA (XFire and SLI), except it also has a nicer PCI Express 2.0 config., which is where your lovely Core 216's will go. The UD-5 has a 16x/16x/8x setup, while the EVGA only has a 16x/8x. So, the UD-5 would give you more room for more cards, but more importantly, better bandwidth so as to take full advantage of them (and not bottleneck them).
The Gig also has 12GB more maximum memory.
Choice is yours though, EVGA is a great company to buy from from what I hear, and its board might also have more USB ports and such.
EDIT: Ok, all of that might have been useless... I think I misread the stuff on newegg, EVGA can also go 16x/16x/8x, just that you can choose to let one slot have 8x bandwidth rather than 16x. Not sure why you'd want to do that, maybe power consumption? Sorry if I confused/angered anybody with that crap.
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