New Build suggestions welcome

so working on this new build for computer gaming and video streaming/video editing and was looking for oppinions if itll work good or any pieces you would reccomend upgrading to something better or another option that may be cheaper. thanks for the input ill be checking this frequently was going to check the for sale areas for stuff but i dont have enough posts on the forums yet.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533

2 hdd set up for raid 0

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231445


MSI P67A-G45 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130582


Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500K

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.722021


MSI N560GTX-TI Twin Frozr II/OC GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127565

CORSAIR Gaming Series GS800 800W ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139025

didnt want to fork out the money for a ssd but wanted atleast 2tb of hdd space and figured raid 0 with 2 1tb hdd's would be better then a single 2 tb hdd

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181017

Cpu cooler will have two fans for push and two for pull

What is your case? You seriously don't need a h100. I say if you want the "water cooling" get a h80 or h60. Also edit your first post instead of double triple or quadruple posting. oh and push pull is 4 fans on a 240mm rad.

my bad and dont have a link to the case but has a nice spot for a 240 mm rad and i also posted with the link it would have 4 fans two for push and two on top for pull

The Intel Sandybridge has current AMD CPUs beat hands down in many apps including gaming but AMDs strong suit is probably video editing which really benefits from many cores. Have you thought about a Thuban or even a Bulldozer which is on the brink of hitting the stores?

i have thought about bulldozer but video editing wont be a top priority and i figured bulldozer is going to be a little pricey even tho amd is good about cpu prices another thing and its not amd's fault is its pre amd/ati merge is it always seemed ati's drivers were never that great and if i went amd i would go with ati and get the gpu from them whereas ive never had problems with nvidia but its all in the air still plus i dont think bulldozer will be out the beginning of next month


also my first thought really was the a8 apu with a 6950

A8 with a GPU above a 6670 is a waste, you lose it's best advantage which is the iGPU. the APUs are NOT for gaming.

What's your budget?

The octocore BD CPU is probably going to be around $300, same as the 2600K.

Are you actually going to use 2TB of space?

While RAID 0 may be faster the risk may outweigh the reward. I've had raid 0 fail more than once. A single 2TB 7200 rpm drive will be plenty fast. Then you can save up for an ssd which will be twice as fast if not more.

Knufire said:

A8 with a GPU above a 6670 is a waste, you lose it's best advantage which is the iGPU. the APUs are NOT for gaming.

What's your budget?

The octocore BD CPU is probably going to be around $300, same as the 2600K.

Are you actually going to use 2TB of space?

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there is an A8 quad without the GPU part for when you want a more powerful GPU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103945

price range is near $1500 but has a little flexibility i know raid 0 has its problems but would a 2tb hdd be ok on its own thought it wouldnt be able to run as a master drive for an os aswell will i need 2 tb idk if i will but there will be video streaming and capturing being used plus games music pictures etc i figured 2tb would be an adequite amount of space and another thing about bulldozer is its an 8 core processor and is it really worth it since i dont think any thing im using will even use the power of 4 cores

not saying you cant use a 2 tb but dont some have problems reading the drive is what i mean

This is what I would do. You could add in another 6970 later and have a monster gaming rig.

actually a really nice set up you put together there only downfall is 2 things is you didnt include price for a monitor and also spending money on a black magic intensity pro its just not available at newegg plus didnt really reference that in for you guys

another thing is will 750w be viable enough to run sli/crossfire with lights in it and all the jazz

ps thanks for the suggestions its help me a bit as i go through my undecided journey