Some small advice on my soon to be new pc anyone?

[SuBw00FeR]

Ok so my current pc has lasted me a good 3 years but atm it's having some intermittent issues, I've already replaced a few things in it so I'm going to build a whole new system, only taking two hard drives, optical drive and my GTX580 for now. Onto the new system!

CPU: i7 3770k (Will be overclocking it.)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100 (Anything better?)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme9 (has the features I want)
RAM: Corsair Dominator CMP16GX3M4X1866C9 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 (Any point in 32gb? I do run some servers/media servers)
Case: Corsair Obsidian 650D
SSD: Samsung 830 Series 128gb (This is my main issue right now, will 128gb be enough as an OS Drive? I'm currently using 80gb on my OS Drive atm. Also currently as a general thing, is the Samsung 830 Series the best? Factoring reliability/performance mainly.)
PSU: Seasonic XP-860 Platinum 860W (Another issue, eventually I'll be SLI'ing GTX680's, will this be sufficient or should I bump it up to the 1000w PSU from seasonic?)

Any input would be great. ^^

Had to use a colour for the parts I wanted to focus on as bold on it's own doesn't really come out too well on these new boards. :/

[Shinanigans]

will 128gb be enough as an OS Drive? I'm currently using 80gb on my OS Drive atm.

You should know the answer to this question in this case ^_^

PSU: Seasonic XP-860 Platinum 860W (Another issue, eventually I'll be SLI'ing GTX680's, will this be sufficient or should I bump it up to the 1000w PSU from seasonic?)

Should be fine as is. Should be chewing about 500w under full load which gives you plenty of leg room.

Curious, what 580 have you got atm? Is it factory GA or the triple fan OC one?

[SuBw00FeR]

PSU: Seasonic XP-860 Platinum 860W (Another issue, eventually I'll be SLI'ing GTX680's, will this be sufficient or should I bump it up to the 1000w PSU from seasonic?)

Should be fine as is. Should be chewing about 500w under full load which gives you plenty of leg room.

Even with SLI GTX680's?

Curious, what 580 have you got atm? Is it factory GA or the triple fan OC one?

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/produc ... id=3625#ov

I believe it's just a stock reference card.

Any suggestions about the brand/model of SSD?

[v4moose]

PSU: Seasonic XP-860 Platinum 860W (Another issue, eventually I'll be SLI'ing GTX680's, will this be sufficient or should I bump it up to the 1000w PSU from seasonic?)

Should be fine as is. Should be chewing about 500w under full load which gives you plenty of leg room.

Even with SLI GTX680's?

Mos Def for SLI Goodness. I'm running an 850w for 2x6970s and i've got room to spare

However consider upgrades in the future, extra HDs, case fans, water cooling... whats the price jump to a 1000W like?

(This is coming from the camp of, if you've spent a fair bit what's a little more.)

[SuBw00FeR]

Jump is $25...

Didn't realise that before lol, think I might just do that, as i'll have a few extra fans and lighting in it anyways

Only thing is it's due in on Friday at PCCG, but they had it as the 17th of this month, and was bumped to the 20th, so I hope they get them in this time.

[steve_rogers42]

the samsungs are seem to be onpar with the intel drives, so the 830's are full of win at the moment, if you want reliability... well most of the ssd's found in apple's tech are samsung drives...

Wow, a asrock 9, what you going for tri/quad sli?

If your overclocking might be more effecient going for a 2700k, as the 3770k's are known to generate a lot of heat due to the compund used within the cpu to transfer heat from the chip to its aluminium top, overall the overclockability of the 2600/2700k is greater, but the overclock of the 3770k would outperform them, choice is yours, i would stick to the 3770k.

[Shinanigans]

Jump is $25...

In that case, go for it. Absolutely nothing to do with fans though, they use like 1-2w, moreso the fact that when it come to sales time a 1kw PSU will be more attractive

[SuBw00FeR]

Wow, a asrock 9, what you going for tri/quad sli?

Not tri/quad, but I will be SLI'ing, and most of the boards are only x8/x8 for the two slots when SLI'ing, this is one x16/x16 on each lane if you SLI two cards. Also it has wifi/bt built onto the motherboard which is really handy for me, as well as basically doing away with usb2.0 as it has 8 usb3.0 ports on the back, and two on the front via the "wi-sb box" they call it. Would of been nice to have a thunderbolt plug on it, more for future proofing then anything else really, as I don't need/have thunderbolt right now.

If your overclocking might be more effecient going for a 2700k, as the 3770k's are known to generate a lot of heat due to the compund used within the cpu to transfer heat from the chip to its aluminium top, overall the overclockability of the 2600/2700k is greater, but the overclock of the 3770k would outperform them, choice is yours, i would stick to the 3770k.

I wasn't going to do any insane overclock, more just a safe overclock to get the most out of it

Jump is $25...

In that case, go for it. Absolutely nothing to do with fans though, they use like 1-2w, moreso the fact that when it come to sales time a 1kw PSU will be more attractive

Oh yeah I know fans wont pull much, just was adding additional information.

Guess that's it then, hopefully they get the PSU's in today, then I'll be placing my order in on Monday, all through PCCG. As always I'll either put pics in this thread if you guys want an easier way to find it, or just put them up in the rigs sticky.

[SuBw00FeR]

Ugh, ffs, 1000w Seasonic was delayed again till the 25th.

I'm just gonna grab the 1050w Gold version instead of Platinum.

[-Slayer-]

Ugh, ffs, 1000w Seasonic was delayed again till the 25th.

I'm just gonna grab the 1050w Gold version instead of Platinum.

I just picked up one of these, got a couple of the 850 900 watt versions needed another one so went with this as it is the same price as what the 850 used to be.
Thermaltake ToughPower 1000W Modular