Hi im building a gaming rig and just wanted your honest opinion on it with the ff criteria:
1. Will this pc last me a long time? (do you think i can run games at full 1 year from now? just an estimate would do nicely)
2. Should i wait for a better gpu or should i stick with this? should i wait for the 6970? do you really think it will be a drastic change in performance?
3. If i were to overclock, add liquid cooling, and crossfire my video card will my power supply hold?
4. if you have any suggestions to improve on my rig please add it
Here is my Rig's specs
Motherboard : LGA1366, GIGABYTE™ X58A-UD3R
Processor: Intel I7 950
Video Card: Sapphire Vapor x hd5870
Ram: 3 sticks DDR3 Kingston 2GB PC3-10600
Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower XT 875w
Case: Antec 902 (got it for 50% off looked at the specs seems quite nice air cooling dunno if much space for liquid cooling though)
Hard Drive: WD Caviar Blue 1TB
Optical Drive: liteon DVD RW 24x
Approximate Purchase Date: 4 days from now
Budget Range: $1300-$1500
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Heavy use on Gaming, Watching movies, Internet
Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, OS
Parts Preferences: No Real Preference i just want advise on what you think i can improve on with my
build, i'm open to looking into brands u suggest
Overclocking: In the future
SLI or Crossfire: In the future
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080
Additional Comments: if you have any suggestions to improve on my rig please tell me
Thanks in Advance
1. Will this pc last me a long time? (do you think i can run games at full 1 year from now? just an estimate would do nicely)
2. Should i wait for a better gpu or should i stick with this? should i wait for the 6970? do you really think it will be a drastic change in performance?
3. If i were to overclock, add liquid cooling, and crossfire my video card will my power supply hold?
4. if you have any suggestions to improve on my rig please add it
Here is my Rig's specs
Motherboard : LGA1366, GIGABYTE™ X58A-UD3R
Processor: Intel I7 950
Video Card: Sapphire Vapor x hd5870
Ram: 3 sticks DDR3 Kingston 2GB PC3-10600
Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower XT 875w
Case: Antec 902 (got it for 50% off looked at the specs seems quite nice air cooling dunno if much space for liquid cooling though)
Hard Drive: WD Caviar Blue 1TB
Optical Drive: liteon DVD RW 24x
Approximate Purchase Date: 4 days from now
Budget Range: $1300-$1500
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Heavy use on Gaming, Watching movies, Internet
Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, OS
Parts Preferences: No Real Preference i just want advise on what you think i can improve on with my
build, i'm open to looking into brands u suggest
Overclocking: In the future
SLI or Crossfire: In the future
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080
Additional Comments: if you have any suggestions to improve on my rig please tell me
Thanks in Advance