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I already have a gase, just going to cut the one I have right now and keep the case, HDD for storage and DVD drive
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EVGA SuperClocked 01G-P3-1563-AR GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
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Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I52500K
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OCZ Agility 3 AGT3-25SAT3-60G 2.5" 60GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
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OCZ Technology ZS Series 750W Power Supply
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ASUS P8Z68-V LX INTEL Z68 LGA1155 MOTHERBOARD
This thing will be nice. 
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1 gig card? really? why not get a 2 gig card.. there's not a huge price difference
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The two most important components are always the motherboard and the video card. If you're going to spend extra on anything, those are the two things to max out.
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Price would've been 50~ more. There's no real viable reason for someone like me (with only a 22 inch and 19 inch monitor) to have so much memory on a GPU. The performance increase on it would be totally negligible unless I was playing a game at an insanely high resolution
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You'll have at least a 27" monitor before you're done using that computer though.
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Haha doubtful. My desk isn't that big and personally I don't really like huge monitors. At most I'd probably just get another 22/23" to make the resolutions the same
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mobo is kinda weak. Why not get one that supports SLI and run 2 560 ti's? Why grab the one that only does crossfire? Or just use GTX 560 SC (super clocked) with 2 gigs of ddr 5? Mobo is weak sauce. Where is your cpu cooler?
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I am not going to run cards in SLi or CrossFire ever again. That's a waste of money unless I was trying only to super tweak my system with even better graphics cards. The performance increase is cheaper to just ebay off my old card and order a new high tier
Going to use the stock heatsink and buy liquid cooling when I decide to overclock later
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you can get gtx 560 sc with 2 gigs of ram for like 200 bucks. I found mine at frys I think. Im running dual gtx 560s. But everything I have is OC'ed. I'm running dual monitors, 12 gigs ram, I7 3.2 quad OC to 3.8 (easy OC'ing it can easily handle up to like 4.0-4.2), 6 extra fans and a h70 cooling. I never lag and never heat up.
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paulg_68 posted:
You'll have at least a 27" monitor before you're done using that computer though.
Resolutions aren't going up though, so monitor size is irrelevant. Matter of fact, it's been going down. From 16:10 to 16:9 on all the new stuff.
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Well the resolutions I think are going up for sure, 16:9 is just the aspect ratio for wide screen. They're not going up like they used to do because we're honestly reaching a tipping point in personal computer performance. Even some games these days are starting to scale back their requirements to make them more marketable to more users other than just extreme gamers
I should probably say I wasn't trying to build an extreme machine, this was just over 790$ after rebates and I wanted to have a marketable parts to sell back next time I do a build. It is defiantly fast though and I defiantly wouldn't need SLi or higher memory on the GPU
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That's very close to the system I'm using now, it'll keep you happy. The only comment I have is that I agree with getting a board that can run SLI or Xfire. You might not use it this year, but it'll keep your system gaming much longer when all you'll need for the next couple years is cheap video upgrades. It's amazing how much better a couple of $150 cards in SLI are than a single $300 (or $500 for that matter).
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the_great_intex posted:
Well the resolutions I think are going up, 16:9 is just the aspect ratio for wide screen
The aspect ratio is decreasing the total resolution though. From 1920x1200 (16:10) to 1920x1080(16:9). Screen gets 10% shorter.
Same with 2560x1600 vs 2560x1440.
Heck, if someone made big 4:3 LCDs, I'd buy those.
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lol @ the idiot thinking sli is a better option than 1 superior card.
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Thats pretty close to my specs i just upgraded to for gw2. I've got 16gb ram and a 2gb 560 instead
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Oh I have 16 gb also, meant to put a (2X) in front of that
The heat spreaders for it look sweet
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Mastara posted:
i also got a rockin sound system that i crank when i play video games. i have to because my machine sounds like a jet engine, roaring in my ear
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Good choices, those components are well matched to eachother!! Should be a smooth system.
Imo just forget about SLI/xfire, get a better vid card a couple of years down the line and save yourself a lot of configration headaches, hassle and dissapointments.
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Its not all that hard. But man its great. I over clocked em too though. Wish that motherboards would spread the cards a little more for more air to flow through. I mean I got more fans and all that but still. For what hes gonna be doing 1 gtx 560 sc with 2 gigs of dd5 is perfect. I doubt hes gonna be over clocking. I just didnt get a ssd yet. I will when I reformat next.
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in the benchmarking charts having 1 gb or 2gb didn;t seem to make a diffrence.
and running one good card was often more cost effective then having 2 cards in sli, while maintaining or exceeded the sli performance
in short ignore the newbs that want to do sli to be cool
they arn;t
its still computers and it still makes them loser nerds
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SLI is not worth it
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