Both.
I know its sorta overkill for now but I'm sure when I get the 3 Surround monitors its going to be well worth it.
Hmm well you could go with AMD and it'll be fine and cheaper, but it is cheaper is performance too. If I was in your position I would get a good motherboard and an i5, either way (AMD or intel) it will cost you more than $300 to get the job done properly, mainly because of the 3 lanes part for the motherboards, it will be more like $375-$425. Unless you grab that bundle you listed earlier, it looks quite good, also get the Corsair RM850, or RM750, they'll both be fine and are very good.
At $330, I would do something like this:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/KxPQGX
I really hope you know that that triple crossfire is mostly pointless except for video rendering.. It is best to get 2 stronger GPU's with more VRAM... If you dont already have the GPU's anyway.. if you are upgrading and got them cheap, then thats perfect. Otherwise, this would be way better
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/fDJ499.
**an SLI/crossfire card can only use as much ram as ther first card. So a tri-crossfire would be able to use 3gb of ram, where this dual SLI setup would be 4gb of vram, a bit cheaper if buying new, and provide more power since most almost all games scale REALLY badly past the 2nd added GPU.
***If you can get $350, then you can get the i5-4690k series and overclock it... That would be a huge bonus on this system...
When I had 2 in Crossfire the cards ran everything perfect and Its something I always wanted and I Understand you guys are saying it isn't worth it but for me it is.
I got a great deal on the third card. I only paid $110 for it.
The cards are Sapphire Reference 7950 3Gb each.
I think it would be smart for me to save up a little more and then get the cpu.
I need to sell of my power supply first so I can get a better one.
I think your plan is coming together ... good luck and post some picts of the beast when you get up and running
Thanks!
I will post updates on the build when I start getting stuff in!
So I just want to update everyone.
I went with the AMD FX 8350 for my 3-way crossfire 7950 setup.
I also got a new power supply , Lepa G1600 from the guys at Enermax.
Still waiting for some parts before I can test but I just wanted to let everyone know!
Thoughts ?
Just wondering, what motherboard?
Pretty good power supply, and now overkill for this build. Feel free to overclock. In fact, I'd recommend that you overclock your FX-8350 if your motherboard can handle it.
Looks good so far.
I got a great deal at frys and I couldn't pass it up.
Got the Cpu for $159 and motherboard $160 with price match.
The motherboard is a MSI 990FXA-GD80V2
Pretty nice motherboard. It'll handle overclocking quite well.
I think the FX-8350's regular price is $169 now. Still, not a bad deal.
Frys had it for $179 when I went.
Also picked up the Coolermaster Hyper X6 Elite , Hopefully it can handle the 8350 OC
It looks like a decently sized cooler. I wouldn't expect any super high overclocks, though. It also seems to be out of stock or discontinued. Probably replaced by the Hyper 212s.
The build will definitely work. I would have gone, with an i5-4690k for better performance and less power, but I think you will be happy with this regardless. You have a very strong AMD theme going now. The 8350 should push the 3 cards without problems.
To be 100% honest I wanted to go Intel.
They offered me the i5-4690K for $199 but I had to have a specific motherboard in order to fit the cards correctly in my case and they had a few boards but they where expensive and I couldn't afford it.
I got it for $30 and I thought it was interesting cooler.
The honeycomb design was interesting and it has an angled mounted design when its installed. I never seen any cooler like it before.
But hopefully it performs as good as it looks.
It looks really good man. And the motherboard problem I can completely understand. You don't want to push your luck with tri-GPU configuration and overclocking. Post the complete build and some benchmarks when you can.
Thanks and I will post updates!
Good thing is that I picked up a new power supply as well.
Lepa G1600-MA by the guys from Enermax.
So I can have a good overclock on the system.
Here's another update!
Cpu Cooler installed and bottom fan installed!
The power supply is coming in tomorrow and so Is the rear fan.
i use an Enermax psu with Sifra board inside my self, and till now it never failled on me, its realy quiet, and its damm heavy lol. It realy doesn´t feel cheap to me.
it also wasnt cheap lol ☺
Build looks realy nice