My new Rig! - It's a monster!

Finally got my new rig up and running and got some kinks worked out with power down on drives but it's all good.   
 
                   

Finally got my new rig up and running and got some kinks worked out with power down on drives but it's all good.   
 
                   

I don't know what any of that stuff is, but i'm curious to how much it all cost.

So you might even call it a big rig.
 
Sorry.

" So you might even call it a big rig. Sorry. "

" fucking overkill 24 gigs of ram really? Couldnt take away some of that for the 6000 series?  "

" fucking overkill 24 gigs of ram really? Couldnt take away some of that for the 6000 series?  "

A bit of overkill on the ram, unless you plan on using that bad boy for some intense modeling/3d rendering/photo editing. Besides that it is a thing of beauty. I love how organized everything is on the inside, there is nothing worse then see a poorly organized computer with loose wires everywhere for no reason. 

24gigs is a lot for nothing. i don't even think that games require 3gigs of ram yet. i think you could have saved a couple of dollars and just went with like 4gigs just to be safe. so how much was all of that?

Nope, I use every bit of it.  I do alot of HD encoding and animation so this was worth it.  All told I spent about $1400 on additional parts.  I already had the sound, video, power supply, 1x 1.5TB black drive, Pioneer DVD and cooler from previous machine.  I got a 7.7 on the windows experience test if that makes a difference. 
 
memory got during newegg sale bought 1 12gb kit for 180 and bought the other during a promo coupon thing for 150.  
processor i got through a special intel retail channel purchase for $250 - quite a deal there.

I'm just gonna chime in and say WTF 24 GIGS of RAM!?

" A bit of overkill on the ram, unless you plan on using that bad boy for some intense modeling/3d rendering/photo editing. Besides that it is a thing of beauty. I love how organized everything is on the inside, there is nothing worse then see a poorly organized computer with loose wires everywhere for no reason.  "

While I can understand 7TB + 120GB of HDD space, seriously? 7TB? I'm also not a fan of WD HDDs; they seem to die awfully quick on me.
 
Instead of burning a retarded amount of money on RAM, you probably should have dropped for SLI'd Nvidia 500 series cards.
 
Other than that, that's an absolutely ridiculous setup.

"Corsair 600T Case Asus P6X58D-E Motherboard   

 Intel Core i7-970 (six core processor)     

 Cooler Master Hyper 212+ heatsink  

 24GB Ram (G-Skill Ripjaw Series)   

 Corsair Vertex 2 120GB SSD (boot drive)   

 2x WD 1.5TB Black Edition Drives (64MB Cache)2x WD 2TB Green Drives (64MB Cache)  

 XFX Radeon 5950 1GB Graphics Card   

 Creative Labs X-Fi Elite Pro   

 Corsair TX750 Watt Power Supply    

 Pioneer DVD+R/RW Sata Drive  

 Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit "

Can it run Crysis?

Awesome machine you got there, hehe. Nicely done ;)

Good deal. I got a new ASUS mobo, E5200, 2GB ram all for 180$ (including tax) in March. 
It's not crazy high end, but it plays games completely fine (mainly TF2).

fuck ...... me .......

You got a nice machine there.  
 
Dragon Age II, The Witcher 2, Crysis 2, Mass Effect 3, and TES: Skyrim will all run incredibly on it.  
 
Edit: Diablo III, Torchlight 2, Portal 2. . . 

nice rig , a real bargain for $1400!
 
all it would need to be completely nuts is for you to get some super highend graphics cards later when the 28 nm starts tapping out.
 
  @Unchained said:

" You got a nice machine there.   Dragon Age II, The Witcher 2, Crysis 2, Mass Effect 3, and TES: Skyrim will all run incredibly on it.   Edit: Diablo III, Torchlight 2, Portal 2. . .  "

Question, how much did all the ram cost anyway?

Have fun.

I like it! Didnt know they made that much ram. 

I want...

24 GB ram? 5950? Huh.....

I have the exactly same psu and mobo as you.  
 
Someone wants to know my opinion on it? Well the gpu is the same power as a hd 5870 and everything else is overkill. You don't need a six core i7 or that much ram or that many hardrives unless you are running it in raid. You could of got away with using a fast SSD drive as your main, then use your other WD black hardrives as you games folder and green drives as your storage folder. In this case even one 2tb is enough for storage. You could of invested in something more powerful like a gtx 570, or gtx 580. Unless this pc is for 3d rendering or professional video editing.  
 
Hey it's the op's money, if he wants to waste it like that, sure let him. I would of done alot of things differently.  
 
Edit: wait your not using that gpu anymore, reverting back to an old one?

what the hell that RAM is stupidly high 
and it's all awesome then I saw the hd 5850 :( 
Too much storage and memory but it is a beast...should have saved on storage and got a 5970 :P 
or sli 580s  
cool pc otherwise :)

So, you bought a 5850, but what's in the other PCI slot? 
 
@HitmanAgent47 said:

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I have the exactly same psu and mobo as you.  
 
Someone wants to know my opinion on it? Well the gpu is the same power as a hd 5870 and everything else is overkill. You don't need a six core i7 or that much ram or that many hardrives unless you are running it in raid. You could of got away with using a fast SSD drive as your main, then use your other WD black hardrives as you games folder and green drives as your storage folder. In this case even one 2tb is enough for storage. You could of invested in something more powerful like a gtx 570, or gtx 580. Unless this pc is for 3d rendering or professional video editing.  
 
Hey it's the op's money, if he wants to waste it like that, sure let him. I would of done alot of things differently.

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•  i7 950
• 6GB 1600Mhz Corsair
• Asus Sabertooth Mobo
• GTX 580 (EVGA)
• WD Caviar Green 1TB (storage)
• OCZ 60GB SSD (boot)
• Corsair H50 CPU Cooler
• Win 7 64bit
• CoolerMaster HAF 912 Case

just like i do with cars, It looks puuuurddy... I like!

24gb ram, but a 5850?

That's a nice rig and no not in any way "overkill" as some people are saying. 
If the idiots could actually read you're going to be using it for Editing and 3D rendering and stuff like that so nothing about it is overkill. 
What's overkill is the money these peoples parents wasted on schooling their kids since they didn't learn how to read :/ 

" That's a nice rig and no not in any way "overkill" as some people are saying. If the idiots could actually read you're going to be using it for Editing and 3D rendering and stuff like that so nothing about it is overkill. What's overkill is the money these peoples parents wasted on schooling their kids since they didn't learn how to read :/  "

" @ZeForgotten said:

" That's a nice rig and no not in any way "overkill" as some people are saying. If the idiots could actually read you're going to be using it for Editing and 3D rendering and stuff like that so nothing about it is overkill. What's overkill is the money these peoples parents wasted on schooling their kids since they didn't learn how to read :/  "

Does he say that in the first post? >.> I'm not being a dick just worried I am missing something haha... all I saw was a few pics and specs... "

Good stuff, I wish you many happy processes. Must actually post my own rig for the perusal of the great unwashed.

A 120gb SSD at a cheap price runs over 200 so you must have got a good sale there in addition to the cpu.  At 120gb you should just use it as your main drive and just use a TB drive to install all the other crap that doesn't have to be a part of the windows installation though.  Personally I do in fact do video editing and produce 1080p mp4 videos and I even I will tell you 8 is enough, 16 is maybe taking it a little far but okay I can see it, 24 though?  Absolute overkill unless you are a professional being paid to do video/graphics editing as a job and even then it isn't "required".  Sound card = waste of money unless you do recording which if you do you bought the wrong sound card anyway, I guess it is okay if you are running a REAL speaker system with your pc.  Graphics don't listen to the haters your card is fine, crysis at max is not the measuring stick unless you are measuring epeen size.  With that card almost any game on the market today you will be able to max it and forget about it with no fps issues.   Hard drives?  Overkill again.  A single 1tb drive with the SSD is enough really.  Heck add on the second if you have to but you are running like a SSD and 4 more drives besides?
 
As for cost?  Well easily over 2000 when you factor in all the components you "already owned". 
 
@Chavtheworld: 1350 pounds and you haven't even factored in the PSU or your drives yet and one pound is like 1.5 american dollars to begin with.  In other words your rig cost around 2100-2200 dollars and you skimped on the case, possibly the psu, and the memory.  Sabertooth is a great mobo for the money though.  My point?  You beat our OP on graphics card and arguably mobo, but pretty much lose to him or only equal him on everything else.  In general your pc's cost about the same but his will be the better overall performer.

 XFX Radeon 5850 1GB. Awful graphics card change to 580gtx 
 24GB Ram. Thats too much seriously...
Intel Core i7-970. Sandy bridge is better. 
 Cooler Master Hyper 212. Noctua or Corsair much better. 
It's an ok gaming rig nothing special.