Finishing my friends build. Missing anything?

WetRain · Sep 10, 2011

Haunter_mybb_import14889 · Sep 10, 2011

Be careful with that noctua heatsink. They are very tall/heavy so make sure there's enough room in the case and also make sure you mount it correctly and do a CPU Burn in once OS is loaded, as that will harden the Heatsink glue a little and prevent you breaking the motherboard. Trust me, it happens. I learnt from my own mistake when I mounted a full copper heatsink on my CPU.

And Even though APC is a good surge protector brand. I wouldnt suggest cheaping out on it. I would spend a tad more than $13 for my surge protector. Because it is the failsafe in the event of lightning being a bitch.

All in all, not a bad build. Can I ask why you went for 2x 6970's over a GTX590? Generally I find single card builds I have made are more stable with less tearing and have less hassles in the long run. I.e if something fails and trying to fix it. Also Sandy Bridge only supports a single PCIe x16 link coming from the CPU so you should get better performance out of a single card, unless you want to switch to an X58 i7 chipset (920,930,950,980x,990x,etc)

EDIT: Also I believe Intel are bringing out the new Ivy Bridge processor in Q1 2012 and they have a MASSIVE performance increase over the Sandy Bridge architecture. So you might want to wait, you might not.

Inxy · Sep 10, 2011

michaelkr1 said:
Be careful with that noctua heatsink. They are very tall/heavy so make sure there's enough room in the case and also make sure you mount it correctly and do a CPU Burn in once OS is loaded, as that will harden the Heatsink glue a little and prevent you breaking the motherboard. Trust me, it happens. I learnt from my own mistake when I mounted a full copper heatsink on my CPU.

And Even though APC is a good surge protector brand. I wouldnt suggest cheaping out on it. I would spend a tad more than $13 for my surge protector. Because it is the failsafe in the event of lightning being a b*tch.

All in all, not a bad build. Can I ask why you went for 2x 6970's over a GTX590? Generally I find single card builds I have made are more stable with less tearing and have less hassles in the long run. I.e if something fails and trying to fix it. Also Sandy Bridge only supports a single PCIe x16 link coming from the CPU so you should get better performance out of a single card, unless you want to switch to an X58 i7 chipset (920,930,950,980x,990x,etc)

EDIT: Also I believe Intel are bringing out the new Ivy Bridge processor in Q1 2012 and they have a MASSIVE performance increase over the Sandy Bridge architecture. So you might want to wait, you might not.

GTX590 is $900, 6970 crossfire can outperform GTX570 SLI and GTX580, GTX590.

Haunter_mybb_import14889 · Sep 10, 2011

GTX 590 is $750 and Like I said, Sandy bridge also only supports x8 + x8 in crossfire so I highly doubt that the test you have just shown was done on a sandy bridge processor.

Also I believe Metro 2033 is only DX10. But IMO benchmarks dont tell the whole story, reason being what I posted above. You need to know what architecture they tested it on.

Inxy · Sep 10, 2011

It actually use's DX11.

I believe ivy bridge processor are hex core? Most games only utilizes 4 cores.

Another thing, 6970 allows you to use eyefinity.

Haunter_mybb_import14889 · Sep 10, 2011

michaelkr1 said:
GTX 590 is $750 and Like I said, Sandy bridge also only supports x8 + x8 in crossfire so I highly doubt that the test you have just shown was done on a sandy bridge processor.

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Also I believe Metro 2033 is only DX10. But IMO benchmarks dont tell the whole story, reason being what I posted above. You need to know what architecture they tested it on.

And no, Ivy Bridge Will be Quad Core to Octa Core

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