you would be good for another 2 years prob. or go ahead and sell the 560ti on ebay or via here and get a new 680gtx or the ati 7970 card.. but typicall as you know its better to sli than to buy new.. I like to skip generations.. so i most likely won't upgrade untill the 700 series nVidia or i'll prob sli my 580 soon. Althou i did have 470GTX 3-way SLI last year and just got tired of all the heat an noise even with them liquid cooled... I still have all that stuff sitting in a box.. (not the video cards)
Case: Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6811129042) Monitor: ASUS VW246H 24" (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6824236049) CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6819115072) Fan: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6835103099) HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6822136792) GPU: HIS Raedon 3gb: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6814161399 Power Supply: OCZ ZT Series 650W (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6817341051) Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16gb: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6820233143 Motherboard: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6813131790 DVD/Blu: LG Black 12X Super Multi Blue (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6827136241) SSD: Crucial M4 128GB SATA III: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6820148442 OS: Windows 7 OEM Professional 64Bit (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6832116992) Keyboard(didn't have one): http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6823107128 Paste: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6835100007 Ordering this in a few days. Still open to suggestions.
You might save a buck if you go with the OCZ Vertex 3 SSD it has bad reviews due to old firmware. but the speed is crazy. Its what i'm using and as long as you update the firmware to the latest you will not have any issues. http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6820227706
you know ant i believe that the z68 boards have an SSD Caching feature meaning you can install a large 2tb drive and use a smaller SSD like 60GB to get the best of both worlds. Basicly it installs the most frequent used data on the ssd and everthing else on the HDD without your involvement. Basicly you get a hybrid drive .. read this http://www.anandtech.com/show/4337/z68- ... dforce-ssd and this http://www.anandtech.com/show/4329/inte ... ing-review
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6820148442 Exact same as your first recommendation, but less memory. Quite cheap. Its what I'm going with.
Yes it is a feature of all Z68 motherboards.. Read the articles and do some googling.. I do not have the function but i'm sure its just a Bios on/off feature of the motherboard.
Wow, seems amazing. Im really happy with my build and all of this, thanks again xD Ill be doing upgrades in the future, and may ask for help picking parts :3
We have a vast base of users with alot of knowledge. I'm surprised that only myself and xxemuxx chimed in on this.!!
Oh damn I thought that was a feature of all boards XD... Guess I've just been updated too long... Yes that's automatic on this board... I know since I'm using it and I didn't config anything for the HDD in the bios... only OCing Probably due to lack of skills.
makes me want to get an z68 board... my current setup Motherboard: EVGA X58 Classified3 CPU: i7-980 (non extreme) OC 4.27gHz Memory: 24GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 GPU: EVGA 580GTX 3gb GPU: EVGA 430GT for 2 samsung monitors SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 120gb HDD: 250gb x 2 RAID 0 HDD: 1.5TB (backups and system image) DVD: LG Blu-Ray ROM DVD/CD R/RW Monitor: Dell 27" Monitor: Samsung 20" x 2 Case: HAF-X (hate it) want the cosmo II... Looking to add another SSD to RAID 0 for 1GB read/write speeds http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd ... ,2848.html and also prob add another 580gtx 3gb for SLI.
I'll give you a hint it's not better then yours if you use your 2500k wisely. Technically it is, but Emu's word is law. edit: zzzz.... I have yet to buy a classified... jelly Back to my problems again So I went ahead and bought a 560 Ti to SLI just and fyi I'm wondering should I switch to watercooling on my 212+ It's quite loud I guess at first I thought, "Hell! I love noise... Especially when they're fans." but it's getting to me when I have to turn on the 250cfm mode (Fan slide control)
this is what i have. http://www.corsair.com/cpu-cooling-kits ... ooler.html I did have a complete custom water cooling loop for 3 gpus and my cpu but my pump burned out and almost fried my CPU. So i'm done with custom watercooling. I'll stick with the all in ones w/ a warranty.
