System Question

[RSM72]

The HAF is a nice case, I moved from a (silent) Antec P182 to a HAF 932 and did not notice much of a difference in terms of quieteness. The only change was that I never hearded my HDs in the Antec and now with the HAF I can tell when they are accessed.

Imho the gtx 590 is overkill, 580 is sufficient for 5x wow and less power hungry (CPU is the limitation here). And SLI is asking for trouble most of the time. Based on that I think a 1200W power supply is somewhat oversized.

If you intend to overclock I'd go with a good aftermarket cooler for the CPU. Comming from i7 overclocking I can recommend the Prolimatechs (Megahalems / Shadow / Super Mega). I'm unsure about their new Genesis because it blocks the RAM banks but that can be an advantage in cooling too. Easy mounting, good performance and still very quiet with a good fan.

EDIT: took a look at the corsair cooler I'd say that thing is not worth the bucks. Good quality silent CPU coolers come at 50% of its price.

[Ethanc]

If you intend to overclock I'd go with a good aftermarket cooler for the CPU. Comming from i7 overclocking I can recommend the Prolimatechs (Megahalems / Shadow / Super Mega). I'm unsure about their new Genesis because it blocks the RAM banks but that can be an advantage in cooling too. Easy mounting, good performance and still very quiet with a good fan.

I looked at the Prolimatech Supermega and the only concern I would have is that it would get in the way of the RAM I chose, guaranteed I could always pick a RAM with a smaller heatsink. I would like to be able to get 16gb into this system.

On a side note I assume that I would have to buy a 120mm-140mm fan to sit on top of that?

[Tonuss]

As I understand it, in order to control temps and power the GTX 590 is "down-clocked" a fair amount, and thus the performance benefit isn't as big as it should be. I've run 5x WOW on a Radeon 5850 (low video settings on slaves, high settings on main) without issue. A GTX 580 paired with that i7 2600K should handle 5x WOW and allow you to run the main character at Ultra with solid frame rates except when you enter a packed area (like a city or sanctuary when there are a few dozen players in the area).

One thing to keep in mind about SSDs is that your WOW folder(s) can get pretty massive. I think mine have gotten as big as 35-37GB with all of the patch files and other crap that can build up. 128GB SSD seems like the minimum size if it's also your boot/program/swap drive.

[RSM72]

I looked at the Prolimatech Supermega and the only concern I would have is that it would get in the way of the RAM I chose, guaranteed I could always pick a RAM with a smaller heatsink. I would like to be able to get 16gb into this system.

On a side note I assume that I would have to buy a 120mm-140mm fan to sit on top of that?

Yes you need fan(s) on top of that. Supermega is compatible with 120 and 140 ones and I think it comes with two pairs of clamps to mount either one or two fans. Thus I'm running with only one because whatever I do the second one will turn my silent airflow into some kind of turbine.

And damn are those things expensive at neweggs, I can get the Megahalens Rev B for 40€ over here while the Supermega is close to 60€.

[MiRai]

As for those large coolers like that, I use the Thermalright Venomous-X and on the Gigabyte UD7 board there
wasn't enough room to attach 2 fans to it with how tall my RAM is. On the Maximus IV there is just enough
room to attach the second fan but, to be honest I'm not sure I notice much of a cooling difference. I've always
been told a push/pull setup can actually hurt cooling performance and that you should really just strap a single
fan on there with a high CFM.

[Noids]

With the ssds I would say a few things. Keep in mind I actually use two intel x25s because they were the best drives for what we wanted at the time. Ocz originally had reliability issues due to poor controllers and intel came out with their own controller which was much better. Since then ocz (and most of the industry) use sand force controllers which are widely recognized as the best.

Intel's new 510 ssd does not use an intel controller any more. It has also been designed to excel in large sequential read performance rather than smaller random reads which is what we want. For a system drive you want one which performs well with random writes also (this is where the original ocz drives fell in a hole). The vertex 2 and 3 both perform at best in class level for random read and writes. If you are set on getting an intel drive (which I'm sure will not disappoint) then I would recommend looking at a 320 instead as it is designed around better random read/write performance which suits your use as a system drive slightly better.