2nd DS rig.

Hey everyone,

So I plan on purchasing my 2nd DS rig. I bought my current rig 3 years ago and it was the best decision I have made with regard to gaming.

Anyway here is what I am thinking. My plan is to buy around black Friday, for the sales and all that jazz, so I have a few final months to get the rest of my funds together.

I am willing to spend.

Here are the initial 1st draft specs:

Total Price with Instant Savings: $10,694.00

Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Black OPS Aventum
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Not Available
Processor: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 3970X 3.5GHz (Six-Core) (Extreme Performance)
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage IV Extreme X79 (Intel X79 Chipset) (Features USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s)
System Memory: 64GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Dominator DHX (High-Performance) <b></b>
Power Supply: 1200W Corsair Pro Platinum Series with Corsair Link (CP-9020008-NA) (Quad SLI Compatible)
Expansion Bay: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (180GB Solid State (By: Intel) (Model: 520 Series) <b></b>
Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (512GB Solid State (By: Samsung) (Model: 840 Pro Series) <b></b>
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: 1x (512GB Solid State (By: Samsung) (Model: 840 Pro Series) <b></b>
Optical Drive 1: Blu-Ray Player/DVD Writer (Play Blu-Ray and Burn DVDs) (Slim Slot Loading Edition) <b></b>
Optical Drive 2: - Not Available
Internet Access: Wireless PCI-E 802.11n Up to 300Mbps (Supports 802.11n/g/b) (Model: ASUS PCE-N13) <b></b>
Video Card: 3x SLI Triple (NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB (Includes PhysX)
Add-on Card: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Creative Labs Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion 5.1 (Includes Front I/O) (PCI-Express Slot Based) <b></b>
Extreme Cooling: Digital Storm Aventum Liquid Cooling System: CPU + Video Cards + Chipset <b></b>
H20 Tube Color:Red Tubing with High-Performance Fluid (UV Lighting Reactive)
Chassis Airflow: Digital Storm Aventum Automatic Response to Excess-Heat System (ARES)
Internal Lighting: Digital Storm Aventum RGB LED Lighting System
Enhancements: - Not Available
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
LaserMark: - No Thanks
Boost Processor: Stage 2: Overclock CPU 4.5GHz to 4.8GHz (Requires Pro/Deluxe/Sabertooth Motherboard)
Boost Video Card: Yes, Overclock the video card(s) as much as possible with complete stability <b></b>
Boost Memory: Memory Fan Kit Only (Does not include memory overclocking service) <b></b>
Boost OS: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system


Here are some initial questions:
1. Why such a big price difference between these two? 1x (512GB Solid State (By: Samsung)/1x (600GB Solid State (By: Intel). What kind of gains in using SSDs as my data drives.

2. Not sure about case mods? any recommendations? Not a priority.

3. How epic is the 3x SLI Triple (NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB?

4. From the perspective of cryo V water cooling. I game quite a bit. I imagine, cryo will give no real extra advantage?

Look forward to community feedback.
DS was such a pleasure to buy from last time around.

First off you said you were not purchasing this till black you have more than a few months by that time gtx 700 series will be released as well as ivy bridge e so it seems pointless to be planning this early with all the new hardware slated for release

Awesome choice mine is on its way as we are typing. Here is a sneak peak of what the copper tubing looks like.



Please note if you choose Nickle plated copper, you can not use the Peltier aka cryo setup.My opinion on the 3 way sli which i was looking into as well is this. For an extra thousand dollars i was not impressed with the benchmarks with 3 cards over 2. Just my opinion...

Evil

Really nice thread !

Great choice on the Aventum. Definitely one of our popular and flag-ship systems.

I will be at 2560 *1600 (Dell monitor)

I will be using two of those monitors.

I think they are 32+ inches off the top of my head

Thanks Alex,

No harm in getting my research done early.