I am building a new gaming system on which I will begin playing with overclocking for the very first time!... But I'm having trouble settling on a motherboard. I intend to use a single Nvidia card for a few months (I have never had good luck with ATI), and then duplicate it at some point to use SLI. I was looking at the 790i but it seems to be a bad choice for single GPU use. This is what I have chosen, based on research on Newegg & here:
CPU: Q9550 (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor)
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 280 (EVGA 01G-P3-1284-AR GeForce GTX 280 SSC Edition 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP SLI)
Memory: OCZ 4GB DDR3 1800 (OCZ NVIDIA SLI-Ready Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1800 (PC3 14400) Dual Channel)
Sound: HT OMEGA CLARO+ (HT OMEGA CLARO Plus+ 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface)
Hard Drives: WD VelociRaptor x2 in RAID0 (Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s)
Motherboard:
OS: Vista 64 bit
Case: Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Extra Fans: Scythe DFS123812-3000 "ULTRA KAZE" 120 x 38 mm Case Fan x2
CPU Cooling: ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler w/Arctic Silver 5
Monitor: Dell 22" (already owned)
Mouse: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (already owned)
Keyboard:
Power Supply:
CD/DVD Drive:
I am going to pick out a power supply once I have figured out the board. Any help with the board would be very appreciated! - Including recommendations to change a part or two to fit an excellent board. Also feel free to comment on anything else... although I plan to post in the general hardware forum for some comments on my final build before I buy it all.
By the way, this is my first post here, so I gotta mention that this forum rocks!
CPU: Q9550 (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor)
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 280 (EVGA 01G-P3-1284-AR GeForce GTX 280 SSC Edition 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP SLI)
Memory: OCZ 4GB DDR3 1800 (OCZ NVIDIA SLI-Ready Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1800 (PC3 14400) Dual Channel)
Sound: HT OMEGA CLARO+ (HT OMEGA CLARO Plus+ 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface)
Hard Drives: WD VelociRaptor x2 in RAID0 (Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s)
Motherboard:
OS: Vista 64 bit
Case: Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Extra Fans: Scythe DFS123812-3000 "ULTRA KAZE" 120 x 38 mm Case Fan x2
CPU Cooling: ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler w/Arctic Silver 5
Monitor: Dell 22" (already owned)
Mouse: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (already owned)
Keyboard:
Power Supply:
CD/DVD Drive:
I am going to pick out a power supply once I have figured out the board. Any help with the board would be very appreciated! - Including recommendations to change a part or two to fit an excellent board. Also feel free to comment on anything else... although I plan to post in the general hardware forum for some comments on my final build before I buy it all.
By the way, this is my first post here, so I gotta mention that this forum rocks!