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[Warsaw]

@InnerGoat: Possibly. AMD better have a compelling reason to price the FX-8150 in Core i7 930 territory. As for the HD 7970, that is one sick card. Looks like I'll be waiting on that one as well as a Bulldozer CPU.

Bodie, check out the Logitech Slim Illuminated. It has music buttons, is back-lit, and is a VERY solid keyboard.

[Cortexian]

Where is 7990 infos

[Bodzilla]

been looking around a little bit.... i've got a Razer Carc headset, but being a 3.5 jack headset i cant choose between having vent come out my headset and everything else through my speakers like i could on my old USB headset.

Some of the keyboards i've seen have inbuild sound cards and USB ports for headsets exactly for this reason, to allow me to separate my sound.
What do you guys recommend in this range thats still wired, illuminated and has inputs at the back.

does anybody else in the forum use a keyboard this way?

[Zeph]

Looks like the check for my grant is in the mail. Here's a last minute run through of what I'm planning to get. Anything horribly wrong?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115070 2600k
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118003 CPU cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131702 5 year warranty mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820233142 2x2x4GB RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136929 HDD (looking to make a file server later for render output this will do for now)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130655 GTX 580 (lawl 3gb)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817153131 650 watt psu

Picking up a full tower case, optical, keyboard, and an OEM Win7 copy to go with my already owned mouse.

[Cortexian]

I forget, why do you think you need the 2600k instead of the 2500k again? 2600k is better for rendering, video editing, large photo editing, 3D models and such, etc... 2500k will be better for gaming and normal use with a bit of the previous stuff mixed in occasionally.

You would probably make use of the extra cores/threads so I'd say you can stick with the 2600k, but if you got the 2500k you could also get a better cooler (like a Corsair H100 or Noctua DH-D14) and clock the 2500k at 4.6GHz easily. If you like overclocking, the 2500k handles it a lot better than the 2600k as well... Most people need to disable HT on the 2600k to get it stable at decent temperatures.

Also, the GTX 580 3GB will draw about 400 watts at load... That leaves you with 250 for the rest of the system, if you ever add another graphics card or a bunch of hard drives you will need a more powerful PSU most likely.

[Zeph]

Because I will be doing a lot of rendering, video compositing, large photo editing, modeling, etc.
Kinda wanting a bit of both worlds here. The 3GB version won't give me anything more in games, but it will hopefully be put to use in rendering. Would much rather have a 590 for the cores to go with the extra 1.5GB, but I dont see it in stock anywhere.

I knew I was pushing the PSU, but I'm planning on a file server build next semester, so I was kinda letting it be. There's a sale on the same brand/rating PSU but 100w stronger putting it 10 bucks cheaper. Gonna go for that just for a bit more padding to go with the unit as it ages.

I'll be staying at stock clocks for the time being.

[Cortexian]

I'd stick with the 2600k then, Tiger Direct has some GTX 590's in stock:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...GW1kAobNWccVWQ

Not sure what shipping would be like though.

[Zeph]

Hmm, actually, Tiger Direct doesn't have a warehouse in my state, so I dont have to pay sales tax. If they have all the components, it'd be cheaper for me to get it through there.

edit: meh, they dont and mixing non-snail shipping would basically make the price the same.

edit again: lawl, even though the 590 is more expensive, getting it through Tiger Direct still makes both orders combined cheaper. Gonna play around and look for a sweet spot. I'm guessing the light weight stuff will keep the quick shipping costs down.

[Cortexian]

That 590 Classified is one bad ass card, you should get it hehe.

[Zeph]

Yep. As long as they don't sell out between now and tomorrow I'll be able to nab it at just under my budget. I can't even begin to imagine how awesome Max will run with it.