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GamerGirlAlice · ‎12-17-2012

Well I have been Designing a System i can use for my needs eventually it the concept of lowering cost i have no data storage drive in build. waiting for them to be beter price. one the things i wanted with this is a surround monitor setup. sadly the best single card solution aside from a $1,000.00 GTX 690 is the ROG Radeon 7970 wich is exactly 1/2 the cost. i hope chris realizes this build needs to be practical to me and pray he dosent come and haunt me for it. but below is my build idea.

Edit: i updated my build for the GamerGirlAlice's AMD Gaming WorkStation. it is now in the main post above. i made some consolidation to run 5x1 (5400x1920). but i think it will make me very happy. the basic parts being bought after i have all my monitors.

ASUS MATRIX-HD7970-P-3GD5 Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support ...
ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Gaming Motherboard with 3-Way SLI/CrossFireX Support ...AVerMedia Live Gamer HD - Capture & Share Your PC Game Footages MTVLIVGHD PCI-Express x1 Interface
CORSAIR AX760i 760W Digital ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS PLATINUM Certified Full Modular Active PFC ...
AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8350FRHKBOX
Corsair Neutron Series GTX CSSD-N240GBGTX-BK 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
Western Digital WD Black WD4001FAEX 4TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Corsair Vengeance K90 Black/Metal USB Wired Gaming Performance, MMO Mechanical KeyboardASUS VS Series VS238H-P Black 23" 2ms HDMI LED Backlight Widescreen LCD Monitor
Corsair Vengeance M90 Black 15 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired Laser Performance, MMO/RTS Gaming Mouse
Corsair Vengeance 2000 Wireless 7.1 Gaming headset
Corsair Vengeance MM200 CH-9000015-WW Wide Gaming Mouse Mat
ASUS Black Blu-ray Burner SATA BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS
Microsoft Windows 8 Professional 64-bit (Full Version) - OEM
CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i Water Cooler

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kkn · ‎12-18-2012

drop the thunder FX version of the motherboard if you gona go whit that setup at all.

xeromist · ‎12-18-2012

I'm not sure drive prices are going to come down anytime soon. They've been high ever since the flooding. You could always pick up used drives from people looking to upgrade. A 1 TB drive is still pretty respectable and there are people dumping them for 3TB units.

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GamerGirlAlice · ‎12-18-2012

kkn wrote:
drop the thunder FX version of the motherboard if you gona go whit that setup at all.

reason i was looking at thunder fx was for my ps3 do u think it isn't worth the fx huh. ill see if i can find just a formula then

xeromist wrote:
I'm not sure drive prices are going to come down anytime soon. They've been high ever since the flooding. You could always pick up used drives from people looking to upgrade. A 1 TB drive is still pretty respectable and there are people dumping them for 3TB units.

i dont expect them to go down much, but concentrating on geting up and running. eventually i want to put a raid 10 array of 4x 4TB WD Black drives. they finally made them but only place i seen them is newegg.

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xeromist · ‎12-18-2012

GamerGirlAlice wrote:
concentrating on geting up and running. eventually i want to put a raid 10 array of 4x 4TB WD Black drives.

Yeah, that was my thought. I just didn't want you to wait too long because you can always add more storage or migrate to new storage later.

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Chino · ‎12-18-2012

Excaliberpc is selling them for $319.99 saving you like $80 on each one of them. 😛

Zygomorphic · ‎12-18-2012

Chino wrote:
Excaliberpc is selling them for $319.99 saving you like $80 on each one of them. 😛

Which in her case is $320...an extra drive. 🙂

I am disturbed because I cannot break my system...found out there were others trying to cope! We have a support group on here, if your system will not break, please join!
http://rog.asus.com/forum/group.php?groupid=16
We now have 178 people whose systems will not break! Yippee! 🙂
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GamerGirlAlice · ‎12-20-2012

i updated my build for the GamerGirlAlice's AMD Gaming WorkStation. it is now in the main post above. i made some consolidation to run 5x1 (5400x1920). but i think it will make me very happy. the basic parts being bought after i have all my monitors.

● NZXT Pink Phantom ● ● ●
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GamerGirlAlice · ‎12-22-2012

dose anyone know if a single ASUS MATRIX-HD7970-P-3GD5 has enough horsepower to power a 5x1 (5400x1920) at decent FPS? or should i invest in dual crossfire cards to ensure it has enough?

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Zygomorphic · ‎12-24-2012

GamerGirlAlice wrote:
dose anyone know if a single ASUS MATRIX-HD7970-P-3GD5 has enough horsepower to power a 5x1 (5400x1920) at decent FPS? or should i invest in dual crossfire cards to ensure it has enough?

Well, from what I calculated, assuming you need 20 frames in the video card for smooth motion, you use ~800 MB. Should be enough, and as far as I know, Xfire/SLI duplicate the data, they don't actually give you more framebuffer memory. All you get is more compute power, which may be what you need more.

I am disturbed because I cannot break my system...found out there were others trying to cope! We have a support group on here, if your system will not break, please join!
http://rog.asus.com/forum/group.php?groupid=16
We now have 178 people whose systems will not break! Yippee! 🙂
LINUX Users, we have a group!
http://rog.asus.com/forum/group.php?groupid=23

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