Building a new gaming rig - Looking for SLI MB

[Mvpeh]

I'm building a new PC, as I don't have access to my usual one lately, so I thought with the money I'm making to go all out and build a new one.

Some conversions:

2,500.00 USD = 1,963.25 EUR

2,500.00 USD = 1,628.83 GBP

I've built rigs before, I was jw what you guys had to say.

The only thing I'm really contemplating right now is:

Core i7 920 oc'd 3.6
GTX 580 SC x 2 in SLI

But please feel free to give any opinions and ideas for my new rig.

I'm looking for the best performance based on cash and I already have three monitors purchased so no need to do anything with that. Looking for a mouse, keyboard, and a complete rig to go with it. Please nothing with water cooling as I have had troubles with that in the past.

(http://www.nextdaypc.com/main/productim ... 160174.jpg) : Monitors x 3

Oh, and this thread is clearly srs bsns. So please go troll elsewhere. =)

[ArvinJA]

I bought a computer in that price range and I now realize it's quite stupid to do so. You might be able to brag about your performance for a while, but it makes much more economic sense to spend about half of that and get a computer that can handle all modern games and just upgrade as necessary. Get a case that you're comfortable with so upgrades are easy, get a nice SSD, get a motherboard with a socket that you know is going to be supported for a while. What games do you want to play right now? Don't fool yourself to believe that a more expensive computer will last longer and all that mumbo jumbo, it will, sure, but you will get a lot more for your money if you upgrade more frequently instead. GFX cards especially deprecate in value quite quickly.

Take it from someone who committed the same mistake. Also, if you update frequently you will get spare parts to build something fun with later on (Today, even old C2D-based computers do quite well if you upgrade the GFX card).

EDIT: I realize that you're looking for more than the machine itself for that money (mouse, keyboard and so on) the computer I bought alone cost me about $2600 IIRC, so our situations might not be identical, still though, as a general rule of thumb, never buy "the best" gaming rig, buy one that fills your current needs.

[Mvpeh]

My current needs pretty much describes "the best gaming rig".

[ArvinJA]

My current needs pretty much describes "the best gaming rig".

Are you sure about that? What games do you want to play currently?

[Mvpeh]

My current needs pretty much describes "the best gaming rig".

Are you sure about that? What games do you want to play currently?

Eh, I have games I'd like to play, sure, and my other rig can handle those comfortably; I also host large scale physics and math equations that use quite a bit of RAM and processing power. To be honest, I have quite a bit of cash coming in right now, so I don't really mind the "economic weight" of buying this rig. But yeah, you're right for the most part.

[_Gunnar]

My current needs pretty much describes "the best gaming rig".

Are you sure about that? What games do you want to play currently?

Eh, I have games I'd like to play, sure, and my other rig can handle those comfortably; I also host large scale physics and math equations that use quite a bit of RAM and processing power. To be honest, I have quite a bit of cash coming in right now, so I don't really mind the "economic weight" of buying this rig. But yeah, you're right for the most part.

You should apply to some funding body for the physics/maths, rather than spending your own money - if they are properly large scale that is. Just parallelize it and run it on a cluster of some sort. If you are at university its quite likely there is something you could apply to use.

[Mvpeh]

You should apply to some funding body for the physics/maths, rather than spending your own money - if they are properly large scale that is. Just parallelize it and run it on a cluster of some sort. If you are at university its quite likely there is something you could apply to use.

Yes, but using such a cluster would cost lots of money (not to mention the massive queue!), and I run these equations quite often with my group so it would cost more cash, anyways; I already have a rig built for it, but that one is unavailable for a quite a bit.

Anybody care to link me to some parts?

[kamirov]

I would go for some radeons instead of the GTX 580's, more bang for your buck IMO =) I have two 6970's and they have never let me down.

With all this money you're spending, I would go water cooling. With the hardware you're going to purchase and the dual Graphics cards, you'll be pumping out a lot of heat and air cooling will not suffice.
That and the room you keep your beast in will raise 10 degrees.

Anyways have fun building it here is a picture of my puter =))))

I would also suggest a different CPU. I may link you later if I take a look around.

http://i.imgur.com/V7cTr.jpg

[Jester87]

You should check out HardForum. They have these threads all day long.

http://hardforum.com/

[Potjeh]

Dude, don't throw away cash just because you have some coming in at a time. 2500$ is a massive overkill for a gaming rig. Just put the extra money into your bank account, you never know when something might come up (most likely expensive car repairs).