June 2010 Extreme Hardcore Gamers Wanted
I haven't yet put together a build for those who want the latest and best. Well, that day is at an end. This computer kit is nothing less than extreme. Your friends will want one, their friends will want to come see, and then, you become that guy that has this monster computer.That being said, budget friendly, not here. The total came in at just over $4000.
Check out the components and you'll soon find out why. Everything here is cutting edge. When it came to video cards, despite what many of you might think. I only went with a single card, simply because X-Fire and SLI still need some fine tuning before they are included in one of my builds.
The memory, CPU, and CPU cooler were picked with you overclockers in mind. If you still have money sticking out of your pockets after you build this computer, you might want to consider getting a water cooling setup and really push this monster around a bit to see what it will attack.
TIP! On this build, I really doubt that adding Windows Readyboost would get you any benefit at all. I wouldn't bother unless you'd like to simply for testing purposes.
Computer Case - Cooler Master HAF 932 Full Tower Black Case
CPU - Intel BX80613i7980X Core i7 980X Extreme Edition Processor - 3.33GHz, LGA 1366, 6.4GT/s QPI, 12MB L3 Cache, Six Core, HyperThreading, Gulftown, Retail CPU w/ Fan
CPU Cooler - Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler - 140x140x25mm, i5, i7, 775, AM2
RAM - Corsair Core i7 Dominator 6GB PC12800 DDR3 RAM - Tri Channel, 1600MHz, 6144MB (3 x 2048MB), DHX
Hard Drive - Intel X25-M SSDSA2MH160G2R5 Solid State Drive - 160GB, SATA, 2.5", Retail - for your primary drive, and the mounting kit to fit it in the drive bay.
Western Digital WD2001FASS Caviar Black Hard Drive - 2TB, 7200 RPM, 64MB, SATA-300 - for your data drive.
Video Card - Diamond Radeon HD 5970 Video Card - 2GB GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, CrossFireX Ready, Dual DVI, Display Port, HDMI
Sound Card - comes with the motherboard
Blu-Ray/DVD Drive - LG BE08LU20 External Blu-Ray Burner - 8x BD-R Read/Write Speed, 16x DVD+/- Write Speed, 16x DVD Rom Single Layer, BD/DVD/CD Read and Write, LightScribe, 4MB Buffer Size, USB 2.0 Interface, SATA
Network Card - on motherboard
Power Supply - Ultra X3 ULT40070 1600-Watt Power Supply - ATX, SATA-Ready, PCI-E Ready, Energy Efficient, Modular, Lifetime Warranty
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