Time for an overdue upgrade woop woop, thoughts?

That is QUITE the upgrade! I'd say, thats probably overkill, but this is Overclock.net, so you might as well go for it.

As for your power supply...It should be proficient in powering everything there. I'm not sure if you were planning on SLI, in which case you'd maybe need to upgrade. But for now, looks good.



Just wondering...what do you do? Just games?

make sure you do a buildlog and post pics. Awesome.

You want 4 5 years to last ? I'd say go for 4x4gb rams then, that's a quad channel DDR CPU i believe. Not to experience compatibility issues go for a 1600mhz kit. Those SB-E CPUs are supposed to be 1600 native.
Edited by Catscratch - 3/15/12 at 6:01am

I had a Thermaltake Frio for a year or so, and LOVED it. I don't think I ever saw my quad-core AMD chip ever see 45c. I had two fans on it and ran it around the medium-highish speed. ( It comes wil 2 little fan controllers that I manually turned up) It wasn't that loud either.

I would consider using a 2600k or something along those lines (overclockable and you'd probably save something on the board). The new chips ARE coming out, and if you're big into overclocking, they're probably worth waiting for. If you AREN"T big into overclocking, they're probably worth waiting for because prices are about to drop. Then again, it's unlikely that you're going to have a CPU bottleneck in incoming games, so really whatever you like is fine.

Where you MIGHT have one, however, is in VRAM, if you buy a 580 with only 1.5 gigs of vram. I'd suggest paying the extra 20 bucks or whatever into a 3 GB version of whatever card you end up liking. Games are already starting to use a lot of VRAM through textures, etc, and it's only going to increase.

Ram is more or less interchangeable. That said, the corsair I have is awesome. 8 is probably all you need for the next couple years. Getting another 8 later is no big deal.

The 2x64 GB setup I think works quicker, but from my understanding you won't notice a large difference between that and a single 128 GB drive (all this assumes you're using a reliable brand). I would probably consider price as a deciding factor there, personally, but others might disagree. This is really the end all be all of SSD information threads. I'd suggest using it to make your purchase, and there's a sister thread Sean made about installing your SSDs which I think is a MUST as it lowers your install and has some tips and tricks for preserving your drive. As a rule of thumb, Intel, Samsung, Crucial and Corsair are the nice SSD drives because they're much less likely to brick on you...but any specific drive you find and are interested in, it's worth looking into reviews and what people think about them first.

Do you really need a $320 mobo? I know its a great board but you can probably get one just as good for a little cheaper.

I just looked at your sig rig, and all I had to say was damn. I agree that your long overdue for an upgrade. My thoughts is for you to get the Sabertooth motherboard, as well as the Corsair Vengeance memory that was made to match the color scheme of that board. And unless your wanting the 3D options, Physx, etc. that NVidia has to offer, and do believe me i am an NVidia fanboy, but at this point the 7950 would be a better option for around the same price. the 3GB of VRAM, the new 28mm die, and the amount of overclocking ability and headroom it has, as well as the low power consumption, it's the better option. Hell, you can even go with a 7970 if you want, but that is a little too much. But, if you want, you can wait just a little longer, maybe a week or so, and see what NVidia has in store for us with the Kepler cards.

a) I'd get the x79 pro-whatever from Asus
b) Yes..I'd wait 2-3 months..There should be new cpus/gpus AND lower prices on some by then .grr..it's killin' me..
c)Don't forget the ssd for OS..Crucial M4
d)Y U no 3930K?