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Finally saved up for a new build/setup. Does this all look good?

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UD4

Processor: Intel Core i7-3820 (will be overclocked to 4.2GHz)

Processor Cooler: Corsair H100i

Graphics Cards: Asus GTX 670 4GB (2x)

Memory: Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 16GB (2 x 8GB) 1600MHz

SSDs: OCZ Vector Series 128GB (2x, RAID 0)

Hard Drives: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB (2x, RAID 0)

Optical Drive: Lite-On iHBS212-08

Card Reader: nMEDIAPC ZE-C268

 

Power Supply: Antec HCP Platinum HCP-1000

Case: Corsair 650D

Sound Card: Asus Xonar DGX

Wireless Card: TP-LINK TL-WDN4800

 

Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2013

Mouse: Logitech G700

Displays: Dell UltraSharp U2412M (3x)

Webcam: Microsoft LifeCam Studio 5WH-00002

Speaker System: Logitech Z906

 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 Professional 64-bit

 

120mm Case Fans: Xigmatek FCB XLF-F1255 (3x)

200mm Case Fan: Xigmatek FCB XLF-F2004

 

 

 

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1. I love that case, its what I'm using at the moment.

2. Go for an Ivy bridge cpu like the 3770k as it actually performs better than the 3820. this means you will need a diferent mobo as well I would suggest the MSI big bang Mpower as a mobo as you can oc t=a 3770k to 4.2 with the touch of a button and every board has been tested with a 3770k at 4.2ghz running prime 95 for 24 hours.

3. I would not put the two mechanical hard drives in raid as one of them should be used to backup your OS as raid 0 is notoriously unstable. (this does not mean you shouldn't use it).

4. I would spend on good fans such as noctua nff12's and I would actually only buy two as the stock fans on the 650D are exceptionally good, the two fans would be for the H100i's rad. I would go for the nff12's as they have very high static pressure and will work exceptionally well on the h100i.

5. What moniters will you be using? If you just have one that is 1080p I would not bother with the 4 gigs on the video cards. you would not see any kind of performance increase and they are much more expencive. If however you have a triple moniter setup or you have a very high resolution moniter the 4 gigs will gelp a fair bit.

 

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I don't know why you'd bother with a locked, quadcore SB-E processor.  The only point of going to LGA2011 is for the 6 core.  The Intel Core i7-3820 is slightly overclockable by increasing the bclick but it's not going ot be any faster than an Ivy Bridge i7 aside from memory bandwidth which isn't important in any mainstream application but you only have two sticks of ram in your configuration anyway so even the memory bandwidth won't be better in your particular system.

If you want to stick with LGA2011 then pick up at least a 3930K and get 4x8gb sticks or 8x8gb sticks of ram.

Raid0 for your SSD is fine, Raid0 for your two WD blacks is not smart.

Also, either noctua nf-f12 or silverstone ap121 for fans.

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I love evrerything, but hate webcam the logitech c920 is much better than the life cam

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Widescreen-Calling-Recording-960-000764/dp/B006JH8T3S

Also you are buying $340 speakers to be powerd by a $30 sound card? you should be looking at a better card to pair it with you speekers or buy a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829271007

and get http://www.amazon.com/MA-Audio-MA5806-Powered-Speaker/dp/B00355HV2W/ref=sr_1_15?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1356842920&sr=1-15&keywords=5.1+Computer+Speakers

and conect your pc soundcard card with  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882678022

(you'll need 3)

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 why would you raid your hard drives? just get a 256g vector, and leave your hdd's stand-alone.

and either bump up to the 3930k or just get the 3770k. also, if you stick with lga2011, you want 4 or 8 sticks of ram. try getting a 4x4g set.

also, if your doing surround gaming, get a 7970 6gig from sapphire. eyefinity>nvidia surround

if your going to do video editing, i suggest you stick with sony vegas instead of adobe. vegas has opencl, cuda, and opengl acceleration, but adobe just has cuda

 

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Everything looks awesome, but I wouldn't put Windows 8 on that beast.