I was just wondering what a good setup for my new(ish) pc should be i have a good wish list of stuff from new egg but i don't know if it is that great.
Motherboard: MSI 790FX-GD70
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE
Hard Drives: OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX30GXXX 2.5" 30gb SATA II SSD (two of these raid 1, stripping, together, said in description that it was a good boot drive and good for raiding opinions on raiding SSD very welcome and if I should get a different brand, also got 2 SSD Adaptor bays so I could put them in the 3.5" area right in front of the intake fans)
CPU Cooling: Corsair cooling hydro series CWCH50-1 High Performance CPU Cooler (I also got two GOOD 120mm fans to replace the one crappy one that comes with the radiator end, my friend did this and said that it worked very well once it had two good fans to pull/push air through it)
Case: AZZA Solano 1000 Black/Black Japnese SECC Steel/Metal mesh ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Optical Drive: Lite-On Black BD-Combo SATA Drive (ok i really don't care to much about the cd/dvd/bd drive, i just got this so I could actually play a Blu-Ray disk and still burn a dvd when needed)
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 TRX-750M 750W ATX 12V v2.3/EPS 12V v2.91 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Ram: CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) (Also got 2 of these so I could have 8gb total ram, is corsair good? is another brand better?)
and the clincher (please don't kill me)
Video Cards: 2 x HIS H577FM1GD Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX support Video Card
(plan on CrossFire set up between them, I also run my PC on a 32" 1080P HD Television through a HDMI cable so the HDMI outputed video card is needed and since it is a large monitor the 1GB card is what I was told by someone I needed but didn't decide to crossfire until after so i don't know if 2x****** 512MB cards would suffice)
Ok, that is everything I put together and yes I want to push the Phenom II 965 x4 BE to over clock to about 3.9ghz or so. This is where you guys that have brains and experience at over clocking can help too. I don't want the over all life decimated since I intend to have this PC for at least 3 years if not longer but I do want a 'little more' since I am going black edition and AMD. I don't have the money to get a good i7 core set up since the processor alone will cost about $100 more than the AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE. I don't know much about what is out right now but I did do research a little bit and man everyone has their own opinion based off of the idea the if it isn't ASUS then it isn't good. So I mean ASUS is very good don't get me wrong but are they value vs dollar best you can do? And by the way thank to everyone who even bothers to read this thread whether you help or just tell me I am a ******* you at least wanted to give me your opinion and they all seem to help one way or the other.
Edit: Ok if a good i7 build is good/possible then shoot. By all means I was told my best bet would be the Phenom II x4. And I think I will be waiting for the x6 if all I have to do is wait a month for that. But i7 interests me too so either way is good on my end, any comments are appreciated and thanks to those of you who posted and let me know about the x6, I thought it would be 6+ months away not just till summer.
Edit: Is one 5870 better than 2 - 5770's crossfired? or is the idea of buy one really big one now and then buy another one later and crossfire those two when i get the money the idea?
Motherboard: MSI 790FX-GD70
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE
Hard Drives: OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX30GXXX 2.5" 30gb SATA II SSD (two of these raid 1, stripping, together, said in description that it was a good boot drive and good for raiding opinions on raiding SSD very welcome and if I should get a different brand, also got 2 SSD Adaptor bays so I could put them in the 3.5" area right in front of the intake fans)
CPU Cooling: Corsair cooling hydro series CWCH50-1 High Performance CPU Cooler (I also got two GOOD 120mm fans to replace the one crappy one that comes with the radiator end, my friend did this and said that it worked very well once it had two good fans to pull/push air through it)
Case: AZZA Solano 1000 Black/Black Japnese SECC Steel/Metal mesh ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Optical Drive: Lite-On Black BD-Combo SATA Drive (ok i really don't care to much about the cd/dvd/bd drive, i just got this so I could actually play a Blu-Ray disk and still burn a dvd when needed)
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 TRX-750M 750W ATX 12V v2.3/EPS 12V v2.91 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Ram: CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) (Also got 2 of these so I could have 8gb total ram, is corsair good? is another brand better?)
and the clincher (please don't kill me)
Video Cards: 2 x HIS H577FM1GD Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX support Video Card
(plan on CrossFire set up between them, I also run my PC on a 32" 1080P HD Television through a HDMI cable so the HDMI outputed video card is needed and since it is a large monitor the 1GB card is what I was told by someone I needed but didn't decide to crossfire until after so i don't know if 2x****** 512MB cards would suffice)
Ok, that is everything I put together and yes I want to push the Phenom II 965 x4 BE to over clock to about 3.9ghz or so. This is where you guys that have brains and experience at over clocking can help too. I don't want the over all life decimated since I intend to have this PC for at least 3 years if not longer but I do want a 'little more' since I am going black edition and AMD. I don't have the money to get a good i7 core set up since the processor alone will cost about $100 more than the AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE. I don't know much about what is out right now but I did do research a little bit and man everyone has their own opinion based off of the idea the if it isn't ASUS then it isn't good. So I mean ASUS is very good don't get me wrong but are they value vs dollar best you can do? And by the way thank to everyone who even bothers to read this thread whether you help or just tell me I am a ******* you at least wanted to give me your opinion and they all seem to help one way or the other.
Edit: Ok if a good i7 build is good/possible then shoot. By all means I was told my best bet would be the Phenom II x4. And I think I will be waiting for the x6 if all I have to do is wait a month for that. But i7 interests me too so either way is good on my end, any comments are appreciated and thanks to those of you who posted and let me know about the x6, I thought it would be 6+ months away not just till summer.
Edit: Is one 5870 better than 2 - 5770's crossfired? or is the idea of buy one really big one now and then buy another one later and crossfire those two when i get the money the idea?