MeeMoo220

definitely agree with alot of ur suggestions. especially 2 x 500Gb HDDs, the HAF 932 and the GPU interpretation. but I'm one of those idiots who goes for brand loyalty over bang4buck xD.

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Hyrox

Thanks for the suggestions so far! I was thinking about waiting, but I can't find any reliable information about when the GT300 series will come out. All I find is rumors...

Any have any more information about that?

r31ncarnat3d

As far as I know, that's all we have right now. If I had to venture a guess, though, it'd be late Nov/early Dec to make the X-mas season (us computer lovers need gifts too, you know!).

Hyrox

I think I might hop on to the 5870 bandwagon...honestly I have a lot more than $1500 to blow...I'm just trying to keep it reasonable. And though I don't game much at the moment, once the new Blizzard games + The Old Republic come out...I plan to a lot.

I've heard different opinions about the release of the GT300 series. I've heard Nov27/early December and I've heard February at the earliest...

Should I look into getting an SSD drive for the operating system to improve boot speed, stick with a single HDD or go RAID 0?

Somenamehere

add in $200 i7 920 and 5870 and your in business.

r31ncarnat3d

That power supply is much too big for the build; the only time you should have a 1kW PSU is when you're running tri-SLI. A 450-550W can handle single card setup, 750-850W for dual, and 1000+W for three or more GPUs.

In short, I'd cut back on the PSU because it's both a waste of money when he buys it now and down the road when he consumes electricity he's not going to use.

XiDillon

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It looks like you may be in time. in comparison to memory bandwidth the GTX380 = Crossfired 5850's so its looking up. consider nvidia is what my post comes down to. also if all your going to do is gaming and not a whole bunch of background tasks or multiple applications at once then a 1366 processor is really too much for you. Its too much for me even but heck, I dont care. an 8x pcie lane only seems to crunch a gtx295 and 5780 and my guess gtx360/380 fermi cards too. So a single fermi or 5900 series w/ 1156 mobo is what I would be eyeing if I were buying again and thinking of going to route you are. I hope the fermi arent overpriced at the end of November. Just think about it before you buy anything.

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Hyrox

Should I think about waiting and getting a mobo with USB/SATA 3.0?

r31ncarnat3d

I'd definitely consider it; If you're going to buy a P55/x58 board, why not wait until the truly new features come out for it?

decimate

With $1500 and then some, you should be going LGA1366 without question. LGA1156 is a mainstream platform. $1500 is an enthusiast budget.

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