advice, tips, reccomendations welcome (project: 1grand$ystem)

[Giannis996]

why not a i7 3960X..its worth the money...

[Shroud]

Why do I not agree with the the LGA2011 set up you posted? You will get better performance from the 2500K, both from an overclocking point of view (cooling the LGA2011 is a challenge when overclocked) and your stated price range. $450 for a board? And few if any games will use more than 2 cores currently. And your budget is 1K??? Nah not worth it at all.
Enjoy

HiViz I have never overclocked before so don't plan on doing it right away, Have also never watercooled. Its something I am interested in but not going to mess with for a few months. My main goal of upgrading my circa 2005 last build of $800 (i stuck to my budget on that one) and having a higher framerate has been met, met and overkilled probably but that is good. And I think this board will be more upgradeable for some of my other goals.

Well I ended up qualifying for a newegg credit card. So..... I blew my budget! Hehe not really I did plan on putting more money into system as time went on just did it early this way with credit. I get 12 months no interest and I will still put that $1,000 I put aside for this project and pay off rest before 12 months to not get charged interest. But, this way I get 32 gb ram, i know way more then I need but it had 15% off so was a better deal per gb. I also got a better power supply and upgraded video card. Oh, and bigger hard drive from rev2.0 build.

Final rev3.0 ordered components are my new signature 2-3 days before build starts. Thank you everyone for help and tips I appreciate it. Going to keep fingers crossed and hope mailman don't kick my box and I get through it all by myself with no problems.

[edub404]

I would chose a better GPU like a 6870 those seem to be way better...IMO

[Shroud]

I would chose a better GPU like a 6870 those seem to be way better...IMO

I did a side by side...

NOT SURE IF IT WILL LINK

on those two they don't seem too differetn except the 7 series is 3.0 and has double the vram of the 6, you would think that plus it costs $100 more would make it it better. It has already been ordered though so if I am not satisfied with it I will have to return. I think I will be fine though. But, would like explanation if you know it.

[HiVizMan]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/549?vs=540

Go have a look at the comparison is it worth $100? I am not sure.

edit: If you want to play Skyrim it is worth the $100