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[sleazy]

Review For Final Order. Might have to wait until there are some sales but this is what i have put together..

Corsair Obsidian Series 800D CC800DW Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139001

MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130610

2***MSI N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127589

Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072

2***CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233196

CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX1200 (CMPSU-1200AX) 1200W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139014

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533

Should be smooth.

Grand Total: $2,825.78

other notes planing to use this as monitor.

40" BRAVIA Z Series HDTV
http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&partNumber=KDL40Z5100

also will need a good cooler thinking h60...

review tweek or provide feedback before i go forward with this beast.

 

[Why_Me]

The 3GB 580 is for a multi monitor set up/high resolution. The extra vRAM for the normal 1920 x 1080 monitor will actually hurt you in FPS due to the extra latency.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/43643-msi-gtx-580-lightning-xtreme-edition-xe-3gb-review-19.html

MSI GTX 580 Lightning Xtreme Edition (XE) 3GB Review

With the GTX 580 maturing like a fine wine, it has been interesting to see what NVIDIA’s board partners had in store for the market. We’ve already looked at Gigbayte’s Super Overclock and MSI’s Lightning and there even more custom cards on the horizon from companies like ASUS and EVGA. With this long list of ultra expensive cards making a splash, one would think that yet another overclocked GTX 580 would fail to make people sit up and take notice. However, the Lightning Xtreme Edition has caused a considerable amount of buzz within enthusiast circles ad with good reason too.

The XE is an extremely ambitious card since it combines the high speeds seen in the previous MSI Lightning with a massive amount of memory. Granted, this combination does come with an ultra high price of some six hundred bucks (or possibly more!) but that’s a price many will likely be willing to pay for what will likely be the highest performing GTX 580 available in North America.

From framerates to thermal numbers to its extremely quiet operation, the Lightning XE is a must have card for enthusiasts with some extra coin burning a hole in their wallets. However, the additional 1.5GB of GDDR5 doesn’t come without some sacrifices. MSI’s flagship card does tend to suffer a bit from the increase latency that comes with higher memory densities. The performance drop-off this caused against the standard Lightning wasn’t noticeable within games but it was notable nonetheless since it showed up in nearly every game. On flip side of this coin, the extra memory did allow the Lightning XE to post a few impressive gains in high resolution, high AA scenarios, particularly in the minimum framerate department.

Another issue we saw was a repeat of our past experiences with cards sporting non-reference memory allotments. Even in the case of the GTX 580, it seems like the underlying GF110 architecture runs out of gas far before the memory bandwidth limits are reached. In both Metro 2033 and Shogun 2 a 3GB framebuffer did allow for the game to run at ultra high detail settings but the experience was still a slideshow since the overclocked core was pushed well past its rendering capabilities. Granted, multi monitor resolutions would have likely seen the 3GB Lightning XE pulling off some impressive wins but we weren’t given a pair to play around with. Plus, spending $1200 or more on two of these cards is more than all but a few upper-crust enthusiasts are willing to spend.

In our opinion, MSI has a winner on its hands that likely won’t be eclipsed for some time. 3GB of memory may be dubious in its usefulness in some scenarios but with DX11 games demanding more and more memory resources, we’d highly recommend this type of layout for upcoming games. If ultra high resolution gaming isn’t your thing, the “vanilla” Lightning is out there but Xtreme Edition still is one hell of a card that’s well worth its asking price…but only to those who can absolutely afford it.

 

[sleazy]

Haha thats nice, There great gpus.