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Judge my pc build - New Guy with a Storm Stryker

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#1 ·
Hey guys, I'm new here. A little background as to why I decided to take on a gaming PC build.
When I was in the Marines, I bought an Alienware M17X (R1 at the time) to play games on and such as I needed a laptop that was compact enough to fit in the tiny storage spaces we had in our barracks room. Four years later, here I am out of the Marines and at home and my M17X's keyboard has crapped out on me. It's being really slow (the keyboard). I have tried looking at everything to fix it, I've even replaced the keyboard but to no avail. So to fix the problem, I have decided to take on building a PC.

I won't be doing anything super cool or modding much. The only thing I may do to it is add a PSU/ cable cover.
Ill be buying parts and peices as time goes on and when funds are available. This is my first PC build, so I hope I don't screw it up.

Lately, I bought a CM Storm Styker (arrived today) and an ASUS Maximus V Extreme LGA 1155 motherboard (arrives tomorrow).

Here is what I am planning:

Case:
CM Storm Stryker

Motherboard:
ASUS Maximus V Extreme

CPU:
Intel i7-3770k Ivy Bridge

Memory:
Corsai Doninator Platinum 32Gb 1866 (4x8GB)

VGA:
2x EVGA GTX 680 4Gb in SLI, OR I may just get one 6Gb 690 or super clocked TITAN and add another card for SLI later

PSU:
Corsair AX1200 Certified Gold

Hard Drive:
Crucial M4 128Gb SSD for boot
WD VelociRaptor 1T for storage

Cooling:
Corsair H100
Corsiar Air series fans

Sound:
ASUA Xonar Phobeus - not sure...still thinking about it

Other stuff:
Windows 8
Lite On CD/DVD drive
Sleeved cables in white
White LEDs to light up the interior of the case

Let me know what you think and what I can improve on.
Again, I'm kind of keeping it simple as it is my first build
 
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#2 ·
You can spend a whole lot less money on the PSU by getting a quality-made 650-750W PSU (a quality-made 750W would cover for two Titans in SLI like you said). If you stick with two 680s, then you can definitely stay with a quality-made 650W PSU. A high-end 550W power supply would have enough, but then you'd have to use those butt-ugly Molex to PCI-E adapters. Either that, or you could spend an arm and a leg on a 550W PSU that has 4 x 6+2-pin PCI-E cables.
 
#3 ·
ok , this is my imput :

you dont need more than 8gb RAM ( Save some money)

SLI / Crossfire , always gets in the way sometimes , that in the end ... you just spent that just for e-pen benchmark , and when you game , its ether not optimized or got tearing issues or lower FPS than a single card ( Save some money)

Get a Titan , its the best you are going to find single card ( All that money saved from the excessive components , helps with the 1k$ of the titan LOL)

you dont need 1200w , get a good 800w gold/platinum rated , (Save a bit of money here lol)

get a bigger SSD , Samsung 840 250gb Pro , and get a 1Tb WD black ( Another save money here
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get the Swiftech H220 , the expandability will be priceless since you will end up WC the Titan
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its your a matter of time (Spend a little bit here
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but worth it in the long run)

the creative Zx is a pretty good Soundcard so far , a great comeback from Creative , i wont suggest the ZxR , but if you have some Headphones that needs some amp .. the ZxR is the one to get (you could buy a DAC with some amp but i like less components in the desk and try to make it all as neat as posible)

there ya have it , a pretty good computer . IF you are impatient , buy that mobo and CPU , if you could wait ... like 5-10 months , you could buy Haswell , but the performance wont be THAT huge so for gaming you are good
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#4 ·
Personally i wouldn't go for the 1155 socket. The cpus perform great for the price, i can testify for that, but its weak point is the limit on the pci bus. It only allowing one pci slot at 16x which isn't bad now. Since it takes 3 680's to saturate it; however, if you are going to keep the rig for the long haul it will end up holding you back in like 2 years (basing this off how the 800 series should perform). Now if the rig isn't staying then the build is fine. However, if the aim is for upgrade potential then i would go for the 2011 socket. You could get a 3820 and a asus x77 sabertooth board for the same price. You can also overclock the 3820 as well, just not as well as a 3770k. My end verdict is for upgrade potential go with the 2011 socket, and for performance right now the 1155 socket. I'm only saying this because I wish i had went with the 2011; however, the 3820 was launched 2 weeks after my build was done. For the other components I would get a Corsair Neutron GTX 120gb (I plan on getting one after i get home from deployment). It performs pretty damn good and it is fairly priced. Get a good 850 watt psu, since owning 1000 watts and up psu is becoming overkill, Corsair HX 850 is nice or get the AX model for fully modular. For the gpu I would go for the Titan because getting a second one should be easy in a year or 2. Everything else you have starts to come to preference. Except storage drive I would use a raid instead but that is me.
Now this is all my opinion which in the grand scheme of things doesn't mean anything. Also if you say screw that guy in the Army he is an idiot. I have a Retort for you "At least I'm not a Jar Head!". Happy PC building i hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
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