Thoughts on my system?

Hi guys, thought i'd ask for your opinions on my RIG and if you can suggest any improvements

CPU: Intel Core i7 980X 3.33GHz @ 4.20GHz
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
- RAM: Corsair XMS3 (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel
- Cooler: Prolimatech Megahalems Performance CPU Cooler with 2000RPM Sharkoon Silent Eagle 120mm Fan
- Artic Cooling MX-3 Thermal Compound

Palit GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card X 2

Asus Xonar Xense Sound Card + Sennheiser PC 350 Xense Edition Headset [90-YAA0J0-0UAN0BZ]

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache

OCZ Vertex 2E Bigfoot 120GB 3.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive

Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black

Corsair Professional Series™ Gold AX1200 High Performance 1200W Power Supply

okay now why do you need a 980X. are you doing some serious video encoding, rendering, or encryption? I can't really justify that in a chip - it seems more like a vanity buy.

Cant fault you for a GTX580 personally but a GTX560 Ti SLI setup might be as good - but you can just Tri SLI your GTX580s (or wait for a GTX590) if you drop the 980X

You probably won't need the 1200W PSU either - but I'd keep it if you were going to do GTX580 SLI

woah there double post

okay now why do you need a 980X. are you doing some serious video encoding, rendering, or encryption? I can't really justify that in a chip - it seems more like a vanity buy.

Cant fault you for a GTX580 personally but a GTX560 Ti SLI setup might be as good - but you can just SLI your GTX580s (or wait for a GTX590) if you drop the 980X

You probably won't need the 1200W PSU either - but I'd keep it if you were going to do GTX580 SLI

Firebird-5

I will SLI the cards and the reason I bought the 6 core is just for future proof, I won't need another for a long while : )

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okay now why do you need a 980X. are you doing some serious video encoding, rendering, or encryption? I can't really justify that in a chip - it seems more like a vanity buy.

Cant fault you for a GTX580 personally but a GTX560 Ti SLI setup might be as good - but you can just SLI your GTX580s (or wait for a GTX590) if you drop the 980X

You probably won't need the 1200W PSU either - but I'd keep it if you were going to do GTX580 SLI

Phantsy16

I will SLI the cards and the reason I bought the 6 core is just for future proof, I won't need another for a long while : )

Wait for socket 2011 or buy a sandy bridge.

Drop the 980X and get a tri sli setup - get a better CPU cooler too. Venomous X or a Silver Arrow/Noctua NH-D14. Or water cool it or ln2 jezz

or just put a downpayment on a new house and car

No point in getting the 980x, Sandy bridge is cheaper and faster in gaming!

sandy bridge for sure, better in gaming cheaper in price

i7-2600k rocks man :-)

980X is not future proof, buY the time that CPU performs better than a 2600K, you'll be looking for a new CPU, anyway.

Honestly, 980X is a waste of money, shame on Intel for not dropping the price of that thing.

980X is not future proof, buY the time that CPU performs better than a 2600K, you'll be looking for a new CPU, anyway.

Honestly, 980X is a waste of money, shame on Intel for not dropping the price of that thing.

C_Rule

Shame on them? What about the fact that they have released something more powerful for such a great price!

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980X is not future proof, buY the time that CPU performs better than a 2600K, you'll be looking for a new CPU, anyway.

Honestly, 980X is a waste of money, shame on Intel for not dropping the price of that thing.

Daytona_178

Shame on them? What about the fact that they have released something more powerful for such a great price!

You won't need the hex core CPU. You might not need SLI GTX 580's. Those cards in SLI are good for Nvidia surround however, they are overkill for a single screen. If I was doing anything like that I would want AMD GPU's anyway. They have 2GB of GDDR5 which is good for Eyefinity. One GTX 580 will be fine for a single screen at resolutions up to 1600p. You could justify more GTX 580's as long as the resolution does not change from that. You won't be limited by the framebuffer at 1600p.

What resolution are you playing at?