What's your Sandy Bridge build?

[Mathazar]

With about 45min of research this is what I've come up with. (Updated with actual purchased items).

Thermaltake V9 Case 90

PC power&cooling PSU 650w 90 - 20 MIR

i7 2600k 330

Asus MoBo 175

8gig OCZ 75

GTX 570 370

Pair of 1TB WD Black HD's 170

SATA DVD Burner 15

Total 1295.

Ordered on Thursday at 11am. Sold my old gaming system (and spare monitor) by 4pm. Sold another 2 systems that I had at home by Sunday. So after my Christmas present from Mom and those sales I'm only out 195. And I've still got 1 more system for sale.

[p00p]

I'm thinking Same Proc, Mobo and RAM as that above from the same place.

And thanks to the CoinStar machine and a gift certificate, I'll pick up an HD 3950 from Amazon ($299) and pay less than $50 out of pocket. I'll flash it to a 6970, as all reports say it's stable as hell and benching the exact same as factory 6970's.

If I pull the trigger that's all I'll get. I believe my current PSU should handle it (I hope). I have an old pos case to move the old guts to. I have one WD black 6gb that'll work for now. I'll wait until Feb and prolly score a 64gb RealSSD C400 for the OS drive.

That is, if I pull the trigger. That's just over $650 out-of-pocket (counting my $250 Amazon credit). That's still more than I want to spend right now. But I guess I could look into selling my q6600 crossfire system for around that. .. We'll see.

PS: I can't see any normal application where 16GB of ram could be used, can you? Unless you build a ram drive and run a game from it or something like that. IMO, your money would be better served in getting an SSD.

[bl00k]

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