New computer build

[Pycno]

With Fermi and 2Gb 5870 released the time has come to buy a new computer. I will be using it for five boxing, gaming on big screen and across three monitors with Eyefinity. Budget is around $4k

List of parts
http://www.komplett.no/k/shoplist.as...E-76BEFDB7F49A


Im waiting for the ssd-drives to come in stock before I checkout, Im fairly happy with my setup but I might have overlooked or missed something and I appreciate comments and tips in particular regarding ram, IMO 6gb is probably enough now - and its easy to insert more sticks at a later date if required.
12gb kits are slower then (fast) 6gb kits, so Ill stick to the faster option if its viable.

PS: Im not aiming for good value or longevity, I just want something fast

[eternaldrk]

Looks good, though you may want to get the 5870 2GB if it's available. You wouldn't need the extra 1GB for WoW, but it would help with AA and other things in more demanding games. It should only be a little more than the 1GB card.

Tom's review of the 5870 2GB: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ity6,2595.html

[Pycno]

Thats exactly what I was thinking regarding the 5870 and why I waited for the 2gb version, but as it turns out its just not something to go for. The extra gigabyte of ram doesnt do anything for performance in 3x1 eyefinity mode as 1gb ram is sufficient already, except for in very few games. Games in the future will require more vram but then the gpu itself will struggle anyway so I dont consider that.
The price on it is almost the same as a 5970, and thats not taking into consideration active display port adapter (I think I would need a total of 3 of them).

5890 would be really nice to have, but I dont know when its going to be released.

[Pycno]

Finally everything has come in stock, I made my order and hope I get the parts before the weekend. I went for the 5970 card instead, hopefully it will be stable in wow in single-gpu mode. The only thing I need now is an active DisplayPort adapter that is confirmed to work with eyefinity, let me know if you find one

[Eloxy]

Hmm the setup seems nice. Leave some feedback on how that processor runs will you? Might consider getting one myself if its worth it.

[Pycno]

One 45 minute national flight, delivery time: 1 week This is what I get for ordering the most expensive shipping method, it takes a full week to deliver. The cheapest method (ground) would have been here today, the train ride is only 7-8 hours. I want to sleep now and have the delivery guy wake me up in a week =p

[botboxer]

wouldn't mind pics after you have everything setup. always interested in how other boxers setup their systems. enjoy your nap btw

[Pycno]

wouldn't mind pics after you have everything setup. always interested in how other boxers setup their systems. enjoy your nap btw

Pictures are up, and movie showing it actually working =P

Unboxing the hardware:


Everything set up:


Eyefinity 3x1 Landscape with bezel correction



Few things to note:
- the motherboard supported the cpu out of the box (had bios 0703 installed)
- 6gb ram was enough for now, I will probably need to increase the amount for next expansion
- The graphics card did not fit in the case, I had to cut away some harddrive-holders to get space for the gfx.
- The Proluma Deluxe Triple LCD stand is awesome in all ways
- I should have gotten another gfx card as I can only use half of this cards resources for multiboxing and this creates a bottleneck I should have foreseen.

Youtube link to Eyefinity 3x1 Landscape test (one character):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksytbgxcPcM

Youtube link to vid showing the multibox setup, finally made after all the requests Ive gotten to do it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7EzVy2F2q4

[Sajuuk]

Few things to note:
- the motherboard supported the cpu out of the box (had bios 0703 installed)
- 6gb ram was enough for now, I will probably need to increase the amount for next expansion
- The graphics card did not fit in the case, I had to cut away some harddrive-holders to get space for the gfx.
- The Proluma Deluxe Triple LCD stand is awesome in all ways
- I should have gotten another gfx card as I can only use half of this cards resources for multiboxing and this creates a bottleneck I should have foreseen.

I had no issues running five clients at eyefinity resolutions (with a 5850). Granted I did have to turn some settings (shadows obviously) down, but it ran like a champ with almost no issues.

Obligatory /point and /laugh at not having the GPU fit. Go get 12gb of RAM. I know with my old setup if I ran around dalaran enough I'd start going into my page file.

What monitors are you using/are you using an active DP adaptor? Did you have any issues with bezel compensation (I have some issues with my native DP monitors). Have you thought about running them in portrait mode?

[Noids]

980X definitely much better value than 965/975X was, 2 extra cores over what was basically a 920 with an unlocked muliplier.

Awesome looking setup mate and glad to see you are getting the performance you want from it.

I am quite disappointed in the way my setup performs to be honest. I have an overclocked 920 (3.6GHz) with a GTX295, 12GB ram and Raid 0 intel ssds. I run 5 clients on my single 2560x1600 monitor and in Dal my main hardly ever gets above 25-30fps. This is with all graphics maximised but shadows on the most basic setting. I added the optimisation settings Kate mentioned recently without seeing any real change in performance. I use ISBoxer and have all instances set to use 8 cores... Any ideas?