new gaming rig rig, any sugestions?

[SPACExJUMPxJOSH]

ok oing to go through my rig because I just realised how much it changed since I first made this, its a mid range system,
msi mo/bo-
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prod ... FX%29.html

amd phenom 2 x4 3.7ghz cpu

msi 6850 x2 in crossfire
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prod ... GD5OC.html

case cm storm scout

2 x 1tb western digital caviar black hdd in raid 0
and 1 x ssd boot drive 30 - 60gb

750w modular powersuply

and 16gb of corsair vengence 1600mhz ddr3

optical drives - dvd and a blu ray

[SPACExJUMPxJOSH]

corsair h80 liquid cooling for my cpu

[taza]

Again - do you actually NEED Blu-Ray?

Also why would you ever use liquid cooling with that CPU?

Or those graphics cards in Crossfire (as opposed to buying a better card)?

Or RAID with that motherboard and without a separate RAID card?

And why would you want a SSD boot drive for that matter? It would only increase startup times for software on that drive.

The 750W power supply could be good, but you're lacking the most important information there.

Overall, your parts are less all over the map, but it's still pretty weird.

[SPACExJUMPxJOSH]

need blu ray because I dont have a player and like combineing

over clocking so water cooling

because crossfire does make a difference

that motherboard does support raid

because it will take ALOT of pressure from my hdd's and I will have a few other bits of software on as well

[SPACExJUMPxJOSH]

2 cards in crossfire can give better performance than 1 better card that costs more than both, like in this case, also the better radeon cards than that are mostly too big for any case that dosnt support extended gpu's

[SPACExJUMPxJOSH]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYl85yBvJcg

[taza]

need blu ray because I dont have a player and like combineing

over clocking so water cooling

that motherboard does support raid

Again, you're overclocking THAT processor... AND buying extra hardware to cool it with?

Also, do you have any idea how shitty Blu-Ray playback on computers (EDIT: Windows, specifically) is?

Also, that motherboard does support RAID... for some values of support. Do read about setting up RAID without a separate RAID card.


Additional notes:

2 cards in Crossfire do provide better performance... at an additional cost... which you could use to buy a better card later, when software can use it... and only if the software has proper Crossfire support.

And it'll take some pressure off your HDD's... but you could just as well have a fast regular drive. Not like you're getting the main advantage of SSD's anyway on a desktop, and the speed increase on boot and on the software on it are pretty much the only major benefits. Maybe that's enough. I'd spend the money elsewhere.

[Lord Chrusher]

If you want to have a massive CPU get an Intel Core i5-2500K.