Anyone with a PC Gaming Rig?

[jav6454]

My system, built for me by Digital Storm Online:

Case:......Cooler Master HAF X 942
PSU:.......Corsair HX1050 Pro Silver
CPU:.......Intel 2600k 3.4ghz (Sandy Bridge) = oc'd to 4.5ghz
Mobo:.....Asus P8P67 Deluxe
Ram........Corsair 16gb @ 1600 MHz
Video:.....2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 2.5GB (PhysX) (EVGA 025-P3-1579-BR)
HD 1:......Corsair Force GT Series CSSD-F120GBGT-BK (Boot + Utilities + Photoshop CS 5.1 + Battlefield 3)
HD 2:......Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" (data + iTunes)
Optical:... LG WH12LS39 Blu-ray rewriter

I'll soon have a second 120gb Corsair SSD for the games and such, leaving the boot drive with the OS, various utilities, and not much else.

BTW, Adobe products automagically recognize nVidia hardware and accelerate everything accordingly.

I wouldn't recommend buying these types of gaming setups basically because they will overcharge for everything. I am sure you could have gotten all that for far less and perhaps even better specs.

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All im thinking of is RAID-0 speeds

Forget that, the CPU will become his bottleneck.

 

[macbook pro i5]

I wouldn't recommend buying these types of gaming setups basically because they will overcharge for everything. I am sure you could have gotten all that for far less and perhaps even better specs.

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Forget that, the CPU will become his bottleneck.

Hey the 2500k is not bad!

 

[jav6454]

Hey the 2500k is not bad!

True, but under those SSD speeds, a 2500k is choked.

 

[macbook pro i5]

True, but under those SSD speeds, a 2500k is choked.

i7 3750k?

 

[jav6454]

i7 3750k?

That might be different.

 

[macbook pro i5]

That might be different.

I thought so,But in real life performance the 3750k doesn't show much improvement over the 2500k.

 

[jav6454]

I thought so,But in real life performance the 3750k doesn't show much improvement over the 2500k.

I'd have to read into it more, I couldn't say much in a comparison of the 3750k and 2500k. I do know there is a performance increase, but I don't fully traps how much that increase is and in what areas.

 

[macbook pro i5]

I'd have to read into it more, I couldn't say much in a comparison of the 3750k and 2500k. I do know there is a performance increase, but I don't fully traps how much that increase is and in what areas.

Is the improvement in the L-3 cache?

 

[Hellhammer]

Forget that, the CPU will become his bottleneck.

I don't think the CPU would end up being the bottleneck. My CPU usage rarely goes above 10% when hammering a single SSD. The DMI between the PCH and CPU might, though, as it maxes out at 20Gb/s, plus it has to carry other data as well.

I have no empty SATA ports so I can't really even test RAID setups. I could of course but that would mean taking something else out and right now all SATA ports I have are in active use. It's time for a PCIe card, I guess...

 

[rocknblogger]

Here's my setup:

Intel i7 2700K
ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe With WiFi and Bluetooth
16GB G.Skill RAM
Corsair H-100 CPU Cooler
2 GTX480 in SLI
Intel 520 240GB SSD
2 Seagate 2TB 7200RPM Barracuda 6Gbps Hard Drives
2 Western Digital 1TB Black Hard Drives
2 Western Digital 500GB in USB 3.0 Dock
Cooler Master Silent Pro 1000W PSU
Cooler Master Cosmos S Case
AudioEngine 5+ Speakers
AudioEngine D1 DAC
Ducky Shining Mechanical Keyboard (Also have a Filco TKL for when the mood strikes)

 

[Tsuchiya]

Guys, very quick question about video cards: what do I need to look for if I want to support dual 27" monitors (@2560x1440)? Will any modern card with 2x DVI ports/displayports and about 1GB memory do?

 

[macbook pro i5]

Guys, very quick question about video cards: what do I need to look for if I want to support dual 27" monitors (@2560x1440)? Will any modern card with 2x DVI ports/displayports and about 1GB memory do?

A GTX 690 can,But its gonna cost you your leg.......and house

 

[Tsuchiya]

A GTX 690 can,But its gonna cost you your leg.......and house

lol probably a bit overkill but yeah

I was thinking something more in the range of £200/$300-ish...

I'm looking at different cards and model numbers and the prices seem to vary massively. I'm sure most of what I'm considering will be overkill for what I need which is to run 2 high-res monitors flawlessly.

If it helps the rest of my machine will probably end up using an Intel Core i5 3570K, with about 16GB RAM.

 

[macbook pro i5]

lol probably a bit overkill but yeah

I was thinking something more in the range of £200/$300-ish...

I'm looking at different cards and model numbers and the prices seem to vary massively. I'm sure most of what I'm considering will be overkill for what I need which is to run 2 high-res monitors flawlessly.

If it helps the rest of my machine will probably end up using an Intel Core i5 3570K, with about 16GB RAM.

the 670 is decent for its price I guess.