I got 3,200 for a new pc any thoughts

I built a i7-920 with a readon 5870. on a asus rampage 2. seagate 500gb hdd. corsair 950tx and a asus 23'' lcd i was going to do something a bit bigger and thought i would ask for some ideas in the 3000$ range.

Well, I'm currently working on my own build priced at $3k. heres what I'm getting.

Water Cooling Parts:
CPU Block - $65.95 - Swiftech Apogee XT CPU Waterblock
CPU Rad - $48.49 - Swiftech MCR320 Quiet Power Triple 120MM Water Cooling Radiator Black G1/4 Threaded
GPU Block - $102.95 - EK GeForce 480 GTX VGA Liquid Cooling Block - Acetal (EK-FC480 GTX-Acetal)
GPU Rad - $39.99 - XSPC RS240 240mm High Performance Copper Fin Radiator (No Fittings)
Pump - $129.98 ($64.99) - 2x Swiftech MCP355 Pump
Fans - $39.75 ($7.95) - 5x Scythe Kama Flex 120mm Fan, 1900 RPM (SA1225FDB12H)
Tubing - $32.22 ($16.11) - 2x Primochill Primoflex Pro LRT UV Blue 1/2IN ID 3/4IN OD Tubing (10 Feet)
Fittings - $71.85 ($23.95) - 3x Feser Compression Fitting - G 1/4" Thread 1/2" ID x 3/4" OD - 4 Pack
Fittings - $26 ($6.50) - 4x Bitspower G 1/4" Silver Shiny 90 Degree IG 1/4" Adapter
Additive - $8 ($4.00) - 2x Antimicrobial .999 Fine Silver Tubing Strip - 3.18mm x 0.5mm - 6" Length
Res - $49.95 - XSPC Acrylic Dual 5.25in. Reservoir for Two Laing DDC's
Sub-Total: $598.48


PC components:
Case - $289.99 - Silverstone TJ07B Temjin Full-Tower ATX Case
Drive bay converter - $46.64 - SilverStone Aluminum 5.25-Inch to 3.5-Inch Converter with 120mm Fan
HDD - $119.98 ($59.99) - 2x Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 Hard Drive - 1TB, 7200RPM
PSU - $154.41 - Coolermaster Silent Pro 1000W Modular Power Supply SLI ATX12V 24PIN Active PFC PCI-E 135mm Fan
Motherboard - $299.99 - MSI Big Bang-XPower LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Video Card - $404.99 - MSI N480GTX-M2D15-B GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Processor - $299.99 - Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950
Memory - $149.99 - G.SKILL PI Series 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI
SSD - $276.00 - Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
TV Tuner - $49.99 - Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1250 Hybrid TV Tuner /Video Recorder 1196 PCI-Express x1 Interface
DVD Burner -$22.99 - ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner - Bulk - OEM
Fan Power-Port - $25.98 ($12.99) - 2x Sunbeam MFPP Multi-Fan Power Port - OEM
Sub-Total: $2140.94

Total Cost: $2739.42

WHERE DO YOU BUY FROM. THIS IS MY 2ND AND I THOUGHT ABOUT PUTIN WATER ON IT. VIDEOCARDS AND THE CPU. BUT WHY ARE U PUTIN TWO WATER PUMPS?. JUST MORE FLOW!.

The reason for 2 pumps is simple, I will have two separate cooling loops, one for the CPU and one for the GPU. This is because the GPU runs hotter than the CPU and if you ran them in one loop it would degrade the performance of the CPU.

Heres a great Sticky with a lot of good info on water cooling:
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6489396&postcount=3

Here's a thread with a ton of great sites to buy water cooling and PC parts from:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67179

Caps are not necessary!

The links go to the sites that are common buying spots by our users.. so follow the links!

Also the 950 is a waste.. either 930 or 980x.. anything else is a waste of cash.. you can oc a 930 to 4.2 or greater with above mentioned setup.. im not a water cooling guy so i cant speak to the wc parts, but I'd also not go with the silverstone case nor coolermaster PSU

get 800d case and a 1k+ corsair/PC&P and not sure why you'd want whatever those fan power ports are for.. you can just get a 6channel sunbeam rheobus and daisy chain fans to each channel to easily control everything above and have probably 1-2 extra ports left for normal case fans

Take a look again on the 950, Intel just cut the price to 299.99 only $10 more than the 930. With such a small price difference your better off getting the better CPU.

HOPE THIS GO'S TO THE RIGHT PERSON. THANKS TO PSIONIC98 FOR THE INFO WRITE BACK ANYTIME. I ALLWAYS GOTO NEWEGG/FROZENCPU/CRAZYPC. WOULD'NT GET ANYTHING BUT I7-920 OR I7-930 AND OVERCLOCK IT I LOVE CORSIRE PSU'S / RAM.

I WILL LOOK AT PRICE TO WHAT ALL WENT DOWN THANKS

psionic98 said:

Caps are not necessary!

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He thinks they are