What would you upgrade with $1k?

My only suggestion would be to swap the 465 for the 470 . 352 cuda cores compared to the 470's 448 is a big jump, unlike the 470 to 480's 480 cuda cores.
 
lol yes phobus, you can. and thanks for all the info... I came into around $1k more so $2,000 possible for a computer build... anyone wanna do that one??? :) lol, upgrade the heck outta a computer and I'll love you forever....
 
TahoE said:
lol yes phobus, you can. and thanks for all the info... I came into around $1k more so $2,000 possible for a computer build... anyone wanna do that one??? :) lol, upgrade the heck outta a computer and I'll love you forever....
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Will do.........$2,000 is a much better budget, you can probably build one of the best now.

How do you make the Newegg shopping cart show though??? like phobus??
 
http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/ShoppingCart.aspx
Don't know if you can see it or not but heres what it is.

- Cooler Master HAF 932

- i7 930

- EVGA FTW3 X58 Motherboard USB 3.0 SATA 6Gb/s 3xSLI and Crossfire

- Antec 1000W PSU Modular

- 2xEVGA GTX 470 (SLI them)

- Western Digital Velociraptor 600gb SATA 6Gb/s

- G.Skill Ripjaw Series 6gb DDR3 1600

Total comes out to $1,910.91

heres links to each one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119160

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136555

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130550

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371036

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231304

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188065

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115225
 
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o.O I like it, I plan on buying all the parts and everything by Friday. So keep debating and make me an amazing combo! I love you all... Pew Pew is a sexy beast too...:P
 
GIGABYTE X58 mobo
i7 930
6gb G.Skill Pi
SLI GTX 470s
1tb WD Black
Boot drive OCZ ssd
1000HX Corsair
HAF 932.

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I think mine wins. ^.^

OH SON OF A &%$^ I FORGOT A HEAT SINK AGAIN
Just get a Corsair A70. Pro.
 
1000w is perfect.....still corsair HX series??? lol

I run 1000w and its doing my tri-fire good. I only got it for the future incase i wanna run more SLI/Crossfire solutions.

Corsair HX is the best but still pricey IMO.

Only thing i would change with Phobus is the motherboard to the EVGA one i recommended, it will be much better in terms of overclocking and gaming (Doesn't matter much though its minor, i just prefer EVGA now considering i use one)

And the RAM, it's good but the heatsinks on it will conflict with CPU coolers especially if you get a good one. I have the Noctua which is the best air cooler (still should be if im not mistaken) and any heatsink on the RAM like that would not fit.

Everything else is good though, HDD with an SSD.

GTX 470 SLI will get you performance better than a 5970 in most situations and should have some good overclocking headroom especially Asus cards with some volt tuning.

You don't really need to Overclock the CPU yet though, that can wait. I would get the build me and phobus are recommending first and then later on down the road go buy a good CPU HSF and overclock the 930. Im pretty sure it can easily go over 4.0ghz with good cooling. My 920 get 4.0ghz with my noctua and i didn't even get a good 920 chip compared to others.
 
SingularPoint said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256058
I have the 750 version, it's amazingly quiet. Fully modular and Silver certified,
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Well I guess that one is good.

PewPewBangBang said:
1000w is perfect.....still corsair HX series??? lol

I run 1000w and its doing my tri-fire good. I only got it for the future incase i wanna run more SLI/Crossfire solutions.

Corsair HX is the best but still pricey IMO.

Only thing i would change with Phobus is the motherboard to the EVGA one i recommended, it will be much better in terms of overclocking and gaming (Doesn't matter much though its minor, i just prefer EVGA now considering i use one)

And the RAM, it's good but the heatsinks on it will conflict with CPU coolers especially if you get a good one. I have the Noctua which is the best air cooler (still should be if im not mistaken) and any heatsink on the RAM like that would not fit.

Everything else is good though, HDD with an SSD.

GTX 470 SLI will get you performance better than a 5970 in most situations and should have some good overclocking headroom especially Asus cards with some volt tuning.

You don't really need to Overclock the CPU yet though, that can wait. I would get the build me and phobus are recommending first and then later on down the road go buy a good CPU HSF and overclock the 930. Im pretty sure it can easily go over 4.0ghz with good cooling. My 920 get 4.0ghz with my noctua and i didn't even get a good 920 chip compared to others.
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Imo, and several others, GIGABYTE > EVGA in motherboards. I'd pick eVGA over GB any time in GPUs, though.
And yes, still Corsair HX. They are made with SeaSonic components inside (can't explain better right now, I can't think lol) which = best.
 
Yea i know the HX series are the best hahaha.....and yea i guess, Gigabyte certainly makes good motherboards, i just prefer EVGA sometimes since theyre more geared towards gaming and overclocking.

The one brand i would pick over any nowadays.......ASUS all day every day, they are just pure amazing in every category now.
 
GIGABYTE is known for how good their boards are at overclocking.
I don't like ASUS's BIOS, how you can only change voltage in .1 bumps.
But in everything else, ASUS is one of the best.
 
yea they're both good......you see the Asus 5870 V2 and ROG.....those things have some ridiculous overclock speeds and HSF. I think they were getting like 1050mhz core and stuff like that pretty easily with a small voltage bump, hitting like 990mhz without any voltage at all.

I can't wait to see how the ATI 6000 series are....probably upgrade when those come out
 
PewPewBangBang said:
yea they're both good......you see the Asus 5870 V2 and ROG.....those things have some ridiculous overclock speeds and HSF. I think they were getting like 1050mhz core and stuff like that pretty easily with a small voltage bump, hitting like 990mhz without any voltage at all.

I can't wait to see how the ATI 6000 series are....probably upgrade when those come out
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I know. We all know.
You say it every time anyone talks about upgrades. lol

And what? Seriously? 990 at stock voltage? My god. What can it get with max voltage? :drool:
 
Ph?bus said:
I know. We all know.
You say it every time anyone talks about upgrades. lol

And what? Seriously? 990 at stock voltage? My god. What can it get with max voltage? :drool:
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Yes sry im like that :chair: it just always comes out lmaooo

Yea....that what i read from a review, pretty narsty....want one now
 
I don't think overclocking is really necessary unless you have a 3k computer with liquid cooling so you can get a REAL performace boost. Anyhow, I think a SSD as a boot drive is as big of an upgrade like going from a C2D to an i7.
 
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