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    Selection of Components

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    (Asus Rampage IV Extreme, Intel X79 Chipset)
    (Intel Core i7 3930K Unlocked, Hex Core, 3.2GHz, 12MB Cache)
    (16GB (4x4GB) Corsair Vengeance LP, DDR3, 1600MHz)
    x2 (2GB EVGA GTX 680, 1006MHz GPU, 1536 Cores, 6000MHz GDDR5)
    (1200W Corsair Professional Series Gold AX1200, 90% Efficiency)
    (240GB OCZ Vertex 3, 6Gb/s, Read 550MB/s, Write 520MB/s) (Not Sure about this, any recommendations)
    (1TB Western Digital Caviar Black, SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache) (Not Sure about this, any recommendations, I don't know the difference and if I need them.)
    (3TB Western Digital Caviar Green SATA 6GB/s,64Mb Cache) (Not Sure about this, any recommendations, I don't know the difference and if I need them)
    (Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Pro Soundcard)
    (Akasa AK-ICR-07U3 - Black Multi Card Reader & USB3)
    (Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit - OEM)

    This is the build I am querying about with scan. I want to play games such as crysis and battlefield with truly amazing fps. The system itself is going to be fully water-cooled, but I'm still worried I may have chosen some ineffective parts, because I don't know what works well with each other.

    Any help is greatly appreciated!

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    Re: Selection of Components

    If primary use is gaming......drop the SB-E mobo and chip. They are ridiculously priced and you will not see any difference over SB or IVB desktop parts. Just get a Z77 board and a 2500k or 3570k.

    The PSU is also completely OTT. A 700W or 800W would be more then sufficient for dual 680s.

    16GB RAM is completely and utterly OTT for gaming. No game comes close to using 8GB....let alone 16! Most use 2GB max. 8 is probably good future proofing at todays prices.....16 is truly a waste in a gaming rig.
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    Re: Selection of Components

    Well, the reason I picked these parts was simply due to the benchmarking I saw. For instance, benchmarks running on an i7 2700k with duel SLI wasn't up to par with the Intel Core i7 3930K duel sli. I also saw a good framerate increase, as opposed the 2500 and 2700k within games... So this is why I opted for the 3930k, as well as it being future proof.

    Aside gaming, I also do a lot of rendering and animation on the cryengine 3, so I'd like to keep these parts.

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    Re: Selection of Components

    There are couple of things needed to change
    PSU:1200w is simply too much for this build.You are just gonna waste it
    RAM: 16gb? Nothing needed a 16gb. If you really insist on 16gb, go for 8gb x2, it would be better.
    The rest is fine for me.

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    Re: Selection of Components

    I agree with shaithis and what resolution are running the games at??

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    Re: Selection of Components

    for your hard drive choices, if you're booting from the ssd and the 1tb or 3tb drives are just for storage then there is no real need to get a wd black edition

    i also thought the psu was ott, you're probably hitting the sweet efficiency spot when gaming (50% ish) but other than that you'll only be using 25% capacity and the system will probably never see 75%+ usage (which is 900w so maybe something around there would be a better choice)

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    Re: Selection of Components

    The black editions are nice for the extended warranty, they come with 5 years on them instead of 3 like the others IIRC. I'd agree the PSU is overkill, and if you're gaming you're not going to see much benefit of the i7 over the i5 to be honest. The main differential between the i7s and the i5s is HyperThreading, and given that most games make terrible use of threading I'd be surprised if you could max 4 cores with most games, let alone the 8 logical cores that HyperThreading gives.

    IMO, if games are your thing get the K-edition Ivy Bridge i5 (can't remember part name off the top of my head) with a high-end motherboard to support overclocking and the SLI.

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