caraboose

Should I go for:
A - a good sound card (for all you sound card nuts link me to it and tell me why it's good)
B - a second GTX280
C - a high end water loop for cpu only
D - a Gigabyte UD3P (quad oc king motherboard)
E - 1200 Watt Silverstone PSU
F - Don't spend any more money on this rig, build a new rig

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TFL Replica

I voted for sound card. It will make the biggest difference for your rig (since you're using onboard). Failing that the second best choice would be a spanking new i7 rig.

A second GTX280 sounds like madness, a 1200watt PSU would be useless and the UD3P (hypnotized by a few CPU-Z validations are we?) wouldn't do much since I doubt you've maxed your current motherboard's OCing potential and at the best the cost outweighs the benefits.
The high end watercooling sounds ok though.

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MCBrown.CA

Hypnotized by validations??

UD3P IS the best quad OC board out right now & fully lives up to all the hype. Your Q9550 would be good for 3.9GHz - 4GHz, all but guaranteed with that board.

Plus you can use your Rampage 780i to start another build, so it's two birds with one stone

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Aawa

you wont see a big performance boost if you get a second gtx280 on the 22in monitor. now if you had a 24in+ then i would say get another gpu.

You could definetly use a good sound card if you were into the sound thing (i am not so i dont know what to link you)

I would say though save the money for now. you have a great rig that will last you a while longer

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BURNS331

Go X-FI. They are amazing especially when coupled with some z-5500 speakers.

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2x280s, especially when oc is still king, better than gtx295, better than 4870x2
nothing else will make a big difference and with the mad deals on 280s (amazon has one for $300 shipped for bfg) it would be too sick to pass up

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sabermetrics

I said to save up your money, but I don't agree on spending it on an entirely new rig...

Your system is pretty top of the line, and really the only thing worth upgrading would be a sound card, though only if you have a good pair of headphones or a good set of speakers to accompany it...

either than that, save it up

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caraboose

When did I magically get a Rampage board?

Anywho I have Z2300 for speakers. I'm not getting 5.1 my room isn't set up and I'm not moving my **** all around. I might get a decent pair of headphones though. For late night gaming while the rents are asleep.

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l4n b0y

no sound card: will you even notice a difference?

no new mobo: to much work..

no 2nd card: once again, will you even notice a difference (esp. at 1680x1050)

dont save it: y? ur pc has tons of life left.

no psu: y?

get the WC setup: and OC the hell out of that Q

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caraboose

The FSB wall on my 780i is 462 Unstable, and my stupid ****ing multi wont change from 8 to 8.5 again! So the WC would really only give me lower temps.

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