New PC (Well in Dec hopefully)

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In my opinion, the fact that the 990X is close to €1000 and the 2600K is close to €300 is a pretty important factor but yeah that's just my opinion it's your computer, build it however you like

Yeah thanks for that I know that other is cheaper but I want quality in the case I know £800 is what mine will cost as a CPU but hell with it I know it's going to have plenty of life in it and not really worried about major upgrades. I just want to for once in my life own something so amazing I might be scared to turn it on for the first time!

You still missed the point that Sandy Bridge-E (3960X) will be released soon. The new LGA2011/X79 will replace the LGA1366/X58 platform.

That's illogical.

You are denying yourself a saving of ~60%, the possibility of future upgrades for absolutely no reason?

Right lets get one thing clear. I have spent the last 5 years in a low paid job I have saved up £6k to spend on something that is a long term dream. Now what I choose to spend that money on is my choice and also how I intend to spend it is as well. I would therefore politely ask people NOT to start telling me what is wasteful when it is NOT their money to spend. I respect people's point of view on such things and will listen however it does not give anyone the right to tell me what I should do with my own money. So kindly cease and desist now. Thank you all.

Well... you posted on a public forum, not a question but a "I wanted to (...) give the other fellow geeks some geek candy to drool over", and you're basically just wanting to brag about it - which is fine with me - but expecting no comments on in?

As one with a very good income AND someone who has experienced a father winning some money on the lottery when i was younger, which allowed once to walk into a computer store and basically get everything i pointed at, i want to make it clear to you - stuff you buy gives you a short ego kick - it does NOT last and you will almost certainly feel that you wasted your money.

Computers get old EXTREMELY fast, way faster than cars or anything else. I am not telling you out of jealousy, because i am not, i'm telling you this out of experience.

But whatever - its your money. Feel free to ignore the advice given by me and others and good luck with your purchase.

I beg to differ. This has been a very very long term dream of mine and it will not give me a "short term ego" boost at all it's not like that for me at all I have dreamt as a teenager and in my 20's of earning enough money to buy such a thing. I have saved for five years and unlike the last person who posted it's all very nice you having a decent income and your father winning on the lottery well for me it's NOT the case at all on either count and my old man would never have done what yours have if he had won the lottery tell you why it's because he taught me and my sister the value of money and the fact is even he is pleased I have grafted away for five years to save up for this and he thinks it is a hell of an achievement for me to have done so.

I also do not share the view now that computers age as fast as you have mentioned because the technology has matured now to such a point it is very hard to perceptibly see any kind of slowness in most modern day rigs the people who are making the machine said easily NOW that it could last me five years and I would only need to swap out the SSD or the graphics cards and that is not just sales prattle it was told to me by one of the system builders at the firm. I am not bragging I am really happy for the first time in my life to have saved up enough to get something I have dreamt of for a long time and I am not going to get any short term ego boost from it at all it will put me on a massive high for a long time. I hope this explains more clearly the reasons why I put it up on here.

It just seems to me that you're trying to find a way to spend a lot of money on something, not caring about the actual value of the product. It's your rig and it's a very good rig, none of us is saying it is 'slow' or 'obsolete' in any possible way, but...You can just find a better bang for your buck...But it appears that the buck is all you care about. LGA1366 is about to be replaced by LGA2011, which will be a lot faster for the same money. But hey, the rig you have now is a really good computer as it is. It really is your call, and kudos to you for having such a budget, but since this is a place for people who are interested in (or obsessed with, like myself) computers, you simply cannot expect not to get comments. Not to criticize, not to attack, just to help. You said before you didn't want help, which is fine. You also said you didn't post this to brag, which is fine as well. You posted this out of happiness you say, well then I'm happy for you that you have the ability to really get what you want. I'm just saying, there is a considerable possibility that you will feel discouraged, ripped off, and angry once LGA2011 comes out, you look at the benchmarks, compare that with LGA1366 benchmarks and go 'Hmm...'

I've seen a lot of the benchmarks and the performance is such a small amount of difference that it would not really matter in the long term from my perspective hell the system builder showed me in web-chat a lot of bar graphs that compared both the chips and it was at most a 15% difference in raw power on either new or in my case slightly older architecture I want to make it clear that whilst I accept that people are entitled to their views on the machine and also to point out to me that the cpu/chipset is going to be obsolete well that really makes little difference because by the time I get around to even thinking about changing the system at that level it would be a complete overhaul anyway so it's really just more of a niggle than anything else to me to be honest. I would as I have said if any upgrading would need to be done at any point would change the Graphics Cards and or the SSD drive to a larger capacity in the future other than that I see nothing wrong with the spec and I will be over the moon when I finally get it because it's been a long time coming. To me it will be like all my previous birthdays for the last ten years come at once.

I'm not talking about the difference between Sandy Bridge and LGA1366, I'm talking about socket 2011, which will be what, 40% difference if not more?

Anyways, congratulations on your machine and I wish you good luck with it hope you'll use it well

Well I have had a rethink about the whole thing and have decided to not get my original spec and have gone for the below instead and it's better value to me as well......so here goes====>

Ice Demon Pro
Case: Corsair Obsidian 800D Case
Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 1200W Professional Power Supply
Processor: Core i7 2600K 8MB Cache Socket 1155
CPU Cooler: EK Supreme HF Full Copper universal CPU Block
Liquid Cooling Kit: Laing D5 24W Pump + XSPC Dual 5.25
Radiators: Thermochil Triple TA120.3 High Performance Radiator
Tubing: 3 x Tygon R3603 3/8
Coolant: Primochill Pure Performance Steel Blue Non-Conductive Coolant
Cooling Fans (Case/Radiator): Blue 120mm LED Case and Radiator Fans
Fan Controller: NZXT SENTRY LXE Touch Screen Fan Controller
Colour Modding: Akasa 12
Optimisation and Tuning: Wired2Fire Cable Management<br>Wired2Fire Overclocking<br>Wired2Fire Tuning
Graphics Card 1: nVidia GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI Express Graphics Card
Graphics Card 2: nVidia GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI Express Graphics Card
Graphics Card 3: nVidia GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI Express Graphics Card
GPU Cooling (check number of graphics cards): None
Memory: 16GB Corsair DDR3 1600MHz C9 Dual Channel Memory Kit (4 x 4GB)
Motherboard: Asus Maximus IV Extreme Intel P67 (Socket 1155) Motherboard
Hard Disk Drive One: Seagate 2TB Barracuda Green 64MB Cache SATA III Hard Disk Drive
Hard Disk Drive Two: Seagate 2TB Barracuda Green 64MB Cache SATA III Hard Disk Drive
Hard Disk Drive Three: Seagate 2TB Barracuda Green 64MB Cache SATA III Hard Disk Drive
Optical Drive One: Blu-Ray Rewriter & DVD-RW Combo Drive
Optical Drive Two: None
Removable Storage: All in 1 Card Reader with USB 2.0 (check case)
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion
Speakers and Headsets: Razer Megaladon 7.1 Surround Gaming Headset<br>Creative Gigaworks T3 2.1 Speaker System
Monitor: None
Keyboard: Razer Black Widow Ultimate Keyboard
Mouse: Razer Mamba Gaming Mouse
Miscellaneous Adapters: Edimax nMax Wireless 802.11n (300Mbps) USB Adapter<br>Razer Razer Goliathus Extended (extra large) Gaming Mouse Mat
Software: None
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)
Warranty: 2 Year Return to Base Warranty
£3917.23

More than adequate. If anything will put a strain on it, it it will probably be the GPUs.


That's a good CPU. Since it is the K version, you can overclock it quite a bunch. Some say up to 5 Ghz, but if i were you, i'd stay well below that speed unless i lived on the north pole in a house with no windows.



Be sure to check if the mobo supports 1.6 Ghz memory without OC.

Still no Solid state drive? Consider one, they rock the socks off your socks!! ! You can raid0 the SATA drives to get some good performance, but it will never be the same as a SATA III-SSD drive. The GPU setup is sort of a monster, but overall a good config.

(SSD's are a bit pricey yes, but i got an X25 (40 GB, SATA I = getting old now) on my current box, and i have no regrets. Next box i'm building for [i]Skyrim i have a 60 GB Agility III for the operating system and a 120 GB Vertex III for applications and games that i run regularly. The rest will go onto regular TB-sized mechanical drives.)[/i]


Disclaimer: This is, as my last post was, feedback on your config, and no negative criticism at all. You are free to choose whatever you buy.

Yeah well I can't be bothered with SSD's always possible in the future but not now. I feel so happy only another 11-10 days to wait till its here....Wooot!

You're a marketer's dream.

You have listed 3x 570's. Why not a single 590 which is a single GPU with 2 580's slapped on it? Two of those and you have the equivalent of 4 580's (although slightly clocked slower)

Will the place you buy from assemble it too? If you are building it yourself, make sure at least one of the GPUs is single slot to make room for the x-fi.

Also, Barracuda Green is geared towards power efficiency. I would suggest replacing the Windows boot drive with a non-green variant.