Leet Gaming Computer -- My First Build

This is my first attempt at building a gaming PC. I am very happy with the way it turned out, and although I had trouble here and there everything worked out well. The overall system was around $2300 and $3000 with the monitor, keyboard, OS, and Bad Company 2. My original CPU cooler for the first few weeks was a Zalman 9700 LED but that was swapped out a week ago for the Corsair H50. I was able to overclock it from the previous 3.6 GHz on the Zalman fan to the current 4.0 GHz on the Corsair water cooler, achieving 20-40% cooler temperatures than before.


Cooler Master HAF 932 Full Tower
Asus P6TD Deluxe X58 Motherboard
Intel Core i7 930 Bloomfield 4.0 GHz 1.34v
GSKILL 6GB DDR3 1600 MHz 1.64v
ATI XFX 5870x2 1GB CrossFire
Sound Blaster X-FI Extreme Music
Corsair P128 128 GB SSD
Corsair H50 Water Cooler
ThermalTake 850w Modular PSU
Samsung XL2370 23'' LED

Looks great, but you better add another two of those monitors or I might have to mock you for running a pair of 5870's at just 1080p

I heard that using both of crossfire **cable** decrease performance and not increase it.

Grosjambon said:

I heard that using both of crossfire **cable** decrease performance and not increase it.

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funny you would coment on that, I was just watching a 5870 review on youtube and they said 2 cables are worse

5 minutes ago..

Is it a Linus Tech tips? because there's where i found this info
here is link at 2;00

Grosjambon said:

Is it a Linus Tech tips? because there's where i found this info

here is link at 2;00

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Heh, yeah! I watch a lot of his videos but I came across that right before you posted.