New Rig Time!

[Kedash00]

Here are the specs and a brief description, need feedback please

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119160 Blue Steel Case, lots of room
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128423 GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Graphics Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127552 MSI N570GTX-M2D12D5 GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5
Processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115211 Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950
Ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820104173 3X 4 gig sticks Kingston
Power Supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139009 CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W ATX12V 2.2 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready

Other stuff i already have like dvd drives and hard drives so i'm not worried about that.
Any advice or critism is very welcome, this is only the second pc i've built for myself.
It will be running on a 32 inch samsung tv for the main monitor and a 22 inch acer for the second monitor.

Thanks in advance

[MiRai]

I would wait for the new [fixed] Sandy Bridge stuff, it's better than 1366. If you're adamant about sticking with 1366 then go with
12GB or RAM as 6GB is hardly enough. The 460 GTX is old news now, 560 Ti replaces it. If you're adamant [there's that word
again] about sticking with the 460 for price, at least get the 1GB version of the card, it's much better.

As always, don't run SLI while multiboxing -- multiple cards are only useful if you play other games with SLI or if you're going to be
hooking up more than 2 monitors. If you're only building this for multiboxing WoW then I'd suggest go wtih one big mother-of-a-
card and get the 570 GTX or even the, ever-so-sexy, 580 GTX. [/NVidia fanboy]

[Kedash00]

for the ram i'm getting 6 sticks at 2 gig each, the mobo has 6 friggen slots on it so that will put me up at 12 gigs.
And yes this will be used for multiboxing mainly so i'll swap the 460 out and take a look at the 570 or 580, i am also a nvidia fanboy, have had nothing but luck with those cards.

Thanks for the post

Edit: Swapped out video card for 570 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127552

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ram prices is dirt cheap right now (like 10 bucks a gig lol) no reason to not get 3X4G (4G is better then 2G chips as you might want to go to 24G later and price difference isn't much).

Ya SLI no good for wow.

Processor OK, MB OK but as stated sandy bridge better.

As stated above 1G min on video card.

Need a SSD.

Check out my web site for a recomended "best bang for buck" system.

[Kedash00]

will definately check it out, thanks again

[MiRai]

for the ram i'm getting 6 sticks at 2 gig each, the mobo has 6 friggen slots on it so that will put me up at 12 gigs.

You know, I always miss that every time I look at someone's build...

[Kedash00]

when it gets to mobo and processors i've got a general idea of what matches with what, but just to make sure i'm looking at this correctly, will this mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128423 GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard work with these processors: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-070-_-Product Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I72600K

Thanks in advance

[Kedash00]

nevermind, didn't notice the socket size

[MiRai]

1366 = 1366
1155 = 1155
1366 ≠ 1155

[Kedash00]

i cant find a 1366 sandy bridge on newegg...i'm gonna keep looking