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[Amit]

^ should be his current build. You're not true enthusiast until you have 4 Titans XD

[ThePlague]

It's like buttfucking your electricity bill each day.

[Cortexian]

Don't joke, I'm thinking of getting the ASRock X79 Extreme11 motherboard so I can add two more Titans to the two I have planned (in the future as need arises).

I'm already planning on a 7680x1600 monitor layout as well. Actually I'm planning 4800x2560 but that's just a different orientation.

Edit: When I say "so I can add two more Titans" I'm referring to the fact that the GA-X79-UP4 only supports two cards at PCI-E 3.0 x16 speed. The ASRock X79 Extreme11 supports four. Is that really required? Not sure, it MIGHT BE for quad or Tri-SLI. The X79-UP4 can do quad SLI but every lane would be at x8 speed.

[PlasbianX]

Just built this tonight:

CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5-3.9GHz Turbo Unlocked LGA1155 77W http://amzn.to/KuaDEU
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB 2xLAN 4xUSB3 LGA1155 WiFi http://amzn.to/16NKhHQ
RAM: Corsair 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1600MHz http://amzn.to/NC6ltT
Graphics: Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 3GB Boost Dual Fans http://amzn.to/10mI9mm

Went with a 2 TB harddrive as well as a 250GB SSD. Case isnt anything special, just some antec case with a 850W power supply. Oh, and this fan: http://amzn.to/ABOrr2

Im excited. Gonna dread installing the software tomorrow, but excited to have this.

[Cortexian]

Looks awesome, let me know how you fell about the motherboard in general and how the BIOS handles.

[PlasbianX]

Looks awesome, let me know how you fell about the motherboard in general and how the BIOS handles.

Everything so far seems great. I'm able to run any game I want to play on max settings with no hassle at all. I'm interested to copy my license of 3DS Max from my old PC to this though and try doing some renders to see how fast they turn out.

I did have an issue though that I'm unaware of the cause.. last night I was using origin to download my free copy of crysis and left my pc on overnight. Woke up to it bluescreening. Started the download again earlier and it bluescreened when the download got to 99% (however I was also running BF2:BC at the same time). I'm watching it now and its at 96% so im interested to see what it does this time..

[Amit]

Possible overheating?

[PlasbianX]

Possible overheating?

Could be.. I know i have my fans set to run at normal speed but ill set my bios to let me know what their temp is if they get too hot.

[Cortexian]

[Warsaw]

Big RAM is big.

I see that you went with the Gigabyte board and not the ASRock. Do let us know how the UEFI implementation is, with pictures.