New System in The works

[FMod]

What is the purpose of overclocking RAM?

Just because you can really. The overall performance gain is only about 1% for 1333->1600 and another 1% from 1600->infinity.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161407

I was thinking this one.

Should do, but I'm not sure what noise level does that cooler have though, can't find a review.

 

So I'd better take this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125414

Gigabyte video cards have a good reputation, the cooling system in particular is known to be quiet, and it's the same price. Plus they already have factory overclock to 900 MHz on it.

 

Multi-GPU setups are mostly useful for multiple displays or stereo-3D. If you connect two displays to one video card, it has to split its resources and its RAM in two (now imagine connecting 3 displays to a 680). In stereo it doesn't, but it doubles the effective resolution.

[Erik005]

With graphics cards you need to read the reviews for that specific model, the same cooler design can preform different between chips,

 

This happend with msi, their twin frozr coolers are very good but on the gtx560 it was loud.

 

So pick a chip and then find a version that you like

[Gravatrax]

Yeah that's how I usually do it. Thanks for the advice guys! Hopefully ill have the rig in the next few months.

 

I think I will buy the HIS IceQ Radeon 9750

Edited May 10, 2012 by Gravatrax

[Gravatrax]

Rig Order Placed:

 

Rundown:

HAF 932 Full ATX Case

Asrock Extreme4 LGA1555 Z77 MOBO

HIS IceQ Radeon HD4950 (decided to save myself 100$ and go with a 4950)

Coolermaster EVO 212, my step dad has this cooler and its working fine for him)

Corsair Low Profile 1600Mhz RaM (i think the cas latency is 9 or 8)

Intel Core i5 2500K Proccesor Bought Used and saved 40$, well see how that turns out.

Power and Cooling Silver Certified 950 Watt Power Supply

Crucial 256GB SSD (couldn't decide between 128 and 256 gb but atleast Ill have enough to play some bigger games)

 

From my current rig I will be salvaging my 1.5 TB Caviar Black and my DVD drive.

 

I think I might try to see if I can recycle my old pc or sell it