I need some advise on my new rig.

krhspeedy

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I am planing to build a new high end gaming system. With the follow components i wanted your suggestions and possible criticism about my decisions.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150518

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231313

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128465

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070

I am going to flash the bios on the 6950 to 6970. i am going to use my current 1000W bfg power supply and a 500gb Seagate barracuda that i have.

thank you for helping me out

Moved to the General Hardware forum... redduc900

 

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psionic98

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Change the ram to this G.skill ripjaws x series cas7 for extra 10 bucks

also might want to think about the HDD you're going use.. not that seagate is horrible, but western digital caviar black drives are great buys

 

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Is that ram somehow better for p67 because of the turbo on the new cpu's? or what makes it better? I am planing on getting an ssd in the near future that is way i am just sticking with the Seagate for the time being. (my budget isn't enough for the ssd right now >_< )

 

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lower cas ratings make for quicker read/write to memory.. they may not be super noticeable to you from what your eyes see and probably more noticeable in synthetic benchmarks..

IMO, if I were building a new rig now, I'd be getting lower cas ram than the cas9 i'm using now. You'll do perfectly well with the ones you originally linked up though.

 

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Get the lower CAS memory. It makes a difference I can even tell in windows.

I had 3/3/3 DDR2 and it died so I went to 5/5/5 and I could tell the difference.

 

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That system look sweet. Gonna rock at that lan party.