Recent content by Geekkid

Looks to be a fairly solid multi-purpose build. My main suggestion would be that unless you can state why you need a sound card without google, you probably dont need one. I would also steer you away from that case because it lacks cable management options. You can get nicer cases (in terms...

A 550W PSU would probably work for you, however there are a couple advantages to having a larger PSU. First of all, having a larger PSU allows you to potentially drop another card in later without any problems for SLi. Also, power supplies are typically more efficient around 50-60% load so...

Unless you have a 120+Hz monitor, anything above 60 frames isn't even displayed. A pair of 780s is totally overkill, particularly if you are already getting 60+ frames with your current setup

What I get out of this is if you don't plan on ever upgrading to a second card, the 7970 is still a solid buy, particularly in regards to the compute performance and the great overclocking potential, but if you have any desire to go with a multiple card solution, the GTX 770 is the clear winner...

I currently use 7870s in crossfire for a 3 way set-up and dont notice any major issues while gaming but I think that I am just not perceptive. Benchmarks consistently show that nVidia cards scale much better in SLi and don't encounter the latency issues that AMD cards suffer from. The 660...

The 200MHz difference shouldn't impact your performance in games in a significant way. The big draw to the 3570K is the overclocking potential and as you stated, your chipset won't allow that. Any of the Sandybridge or Ivy Bridge i5s should be good for gaming. Unless you are planning on...

If you are going to purchase another card within the next couple of months, you are probably better off waiting to build and getting a nicer single card. Something like a Sapphire 7870XT or Powercolor 7870 MYST. Ed. will give you very solid performance for gaming at 1080P. This also will allow...

I am currently running 3 monitors at 5040 X 1050. My current system is 8GB of ram, i5 3570K (stock) and a radeon 7870 GHz. At this resolution, I can pretty much max everything out, but in titles such as Battlefield my frame rates seem to take a hit when there is a lot going on. Would running...