Well with my new job paying me extremely well I am building a new rig, gonna be the most powerful I have ever seen.
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 (Socket AM3)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H (Dual PCIe x 16, + PCIex1, PCI (2), Ram 4, Onboard Video ATI Radeon HD 4290 graphics)
GFX Card: Dual Sapphire ATI Radeon HD5770 HD 5770 1GB 100283-3L PCI-E (x2)
Ram: DDR3 8gb
HD: WD 2TB HD
Power Supply: Coolmax ATX Power Supply 700W 6&8 pin PCI-E LED CL-700B
BR: LG WH10LS30 SATA 10X Blu-ray
Cooling: THERMALTAKE PW 850I PRO WATER COOLING KIT CL-W0175
Ram Cooler: Evercool
Bay Fan Conrtoller
Now let me explain all this. Obviously the CPU is the best out right now, the MB has onboard spdif outs as well has hdmi. The dual video cards have 1gb ram each functioning in crossfire mode. Obviously ram is starting at 8gb, I will max it out at 16gb. The 700w power supply is needed to run all the cooling internals let the system use the juice that is needed. The Liquid Cooling System will be hooked into the cpu obviously but I am buying some extra cooling blocks for the ram and both video cards. This will allow me to over clock the processor from 3.2 ghz to somewhere around 6ghz and the memory as well, all while keeping the system under or around 40-50c, which is well below max operating temperature.
Adding in a 4th monitor, 2x 22" acer wides, 37" vizio as the media screen, and a 17" to place UO cartographer, EUO, Razor ect in. Leaving my double 22" for UO/Web browser or a VM Station on one, work on the other. Thinking of addin in yet two more monitors since I can have 6 total, 22" wides placed on each side of my Vizio tilted on their side to extend the TV for other things, pic slideshow, or whatever.
I will also be adding in two dual haugpauge tv tuners for a total of 4 tv tuners to record anything I want on multiple stations at the same time. Ovbiously the Bay fan controll will not be controlling a cpu fan as I wont have one, it will however control the case fans and possibly the liquid cooling pump if there is a way to do it. IT will also be digital, so it will allow me to keep real time track of my cpu temp without running any extra services.
Now for the keyboard I will have two. One will be completely wireless with a touchpad mouse control build in. This is for doing typing and stuff from the couch. The main keyboard I am having trouble deciding on, I like the logitech G series, but I also want backlighted keys. Can anyone confirm they do that? Dual mice, one wireless optical, one wireless trackball for programming ect.
I have a logitech harmony remote that I already use in my current setup so I wont need to change anything there. The spdif out goes to my Sony home theater and powered sub.
You may be asking why all this? Why 6 monitors? Why so much power? Well I figure like this, next year 3d TV's and 3d capable programs will be coming out to watch movies and games in real 3d (i.e. with the glasses). While you will need a new tv and blu ray player capable of this, computers will have this more readily available, that is why I choose top of the line dual video cards. If anyone saw Avatar in 3d you will understand. Second, with that much power, 16gb of ddr3 ram, overclocked to a 6ghz quad core processor, I will be able to play CoDMW2, UO, WoW, Watch a Blu Ray, and TV all at the same time keeping a good framerate of 25-40 fps on all. And the secondary reason is I am rebuilding this current pc to a custom box with a modified power supply and blu ray via usb and mounting it in my car. Yes with yet another 22" wide monitor modded into the roof to flip down, usb blu ray modded into the dash below the stereo, now I got one kick ass looking mod in my car and my daughter can watch movies on the road either from the 2.5" HD or the blu ray. And the third, I am modding my second computer now into my daughters computer for her room to play on noggin.com, watch movies ect in her room. Shes 4 and its time she learned to use a computer, plus I know how to set up the computer to make it easy for her to use and do what she wants while limiting what she can "mess up" and what web sites she can visit.
So, thoughts and or suggestions? Keep your ati v nvidia or amd v intel arguements to yourself lol, I love nvidia and amd, but fact is ati works better with amd than nvidia does. Not having to run CCC and nvidia display. :p