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How's this build for my needs?

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6/3/12 at 10:25am
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I know I've asked similar questions before but I've done some careful revisions, bang-for-buck related ones. I've got an event to go to in germany this summer and it would be good not to spend alot of money on the system. That said, my budget is still 3000-3500euros. I'm trying to ensure no current game goes below 60fps average with this and to allow for some decent multitasking.

My main questions being: Should I stick with Ivy or would you recommend something else? Is the mobo enough? I don't need integrated audio or any gimmick, I just want enough slots and backports and this seems to have that and a little more in terms of features. What do you think?



Win 7 Pro 64-bit
Intel i5-3750k 3.40Ghz (Ivy)
Asrock Z77 Extreme4
Corsair Dominator GT 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1866MHz
'SLi' Asus GTX 670 DirectCU II TOP 2Gb
Creative SoundBlaster x-fi Titanium HD
Corsair Professional Series AX750 High Performance 750W Modular '80 Plus Gold' 

OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD
Western Digital Caviar Black 2Tb 7200rpm 64mb
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6/3/12 at 2:09pm
You'll want to check to see if Creative fixed the hardware bug in the X-Fi Titanium. It causes you to blue-screen anytime you use hardware sound in Windows 7 in combination with EAX and certain instructions are sent. It became such a pain for me that i just use software for all of my games now.

Also, don't expect to get 60+ fps in any game. Just because your hardware can handle it doesn't mean that the engine used is any good. I run two GTX 570s in SLI and usually get a flat 120 fps (sync enabled), but the Star Wars: TOR engine was so inefficient that I would sometimes fall to as low as 5 to 10 fps in certain places or at certain times. On top of this, there are many games that become CPU-limited before they reach the GPU limits because all games can only have a single graphics engine thread and depending how well they marshall other calls, this one thread can get bogged down with other processes.
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