Since Christmas is rolling around I've started gathering parts for my computer rebuild. (First one I've done in a couple of years, planning on building it nearly from scratch (the sound card and network card I'll just salvage from my current rig).
Here's what I got so far
Two Radeon HD5870's
CORSAIR 12GB (6 x 2GB) DDR3 RAM
i7 920 2.66Ghz
Antec 1200 case
750 Watt power supply.
Hitachi 1TB 7200 RPM HDD
So here's my predicament, I've got 700 dollars left and I have to find a motherboard that fits in this case, has the two PCI-E slots I need and has 6 mem slots.
I've found this GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 for 349.99 and it seems to meet my needs, does anyone have any other recommendations?
Get a single 5970 and you can save some money also I recommend the the i5 instead of the 920. Also don't get a hitachi hard drive they suck. :barf:
ASUS P6T6: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131358[/url]
But i would personally go with the one you posted since it has newer tech in it.
[quote]SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0[/quote]
[QUOTE=sbradford26;18858971]Get a single 5970 and you can save some money also I recommend the the i5 instead of the 920. [B]Also don't get a hitachi hard drive they suck[/B]. :barf:[/QUOTE]
I already purchased it and you haven't exactly provided any proof backing up your claim. The reviews say it's quiet and it does it's job and I'm not really into performance HDDs anyways.
[QUOTE=Pacmaney;18859083]I already purchased it and you haven't exactly provided any proof backing up your claim. The reviews say it's quiet and it does it's job and I'm not really into performance HDDs anyways.[/QUOTE]
They have horrible failure rates. Also don't believe user reviews off of newegg. You have tons of stupid people on there.
[QUOTE=sbradford26;18859122][B]They have horrible failure rates[/B]. Also don't believe user reviews off of newegg. You have tons of stupid people on there.[/QUOTE]
What's the failure rate on those drives?
I went for the Asus P6T-SE. Quite cheap, solid and I /think/ it has what you're looking for too. I think it supports crossfire but not SLi. I have nvidia but I don't really care it doesn't have SLi - I can't be bothered with two graphics cards.
[QUOTE=Pacmaney;18859211]What's the failure rate on those drives?[/QUOTE]
Higher than that of western digital or Seagate or Samsung.
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