So my cousin is building a beast desktop.

[disolitude]

Fumanchu said:

disolitude said:

If I was buisling a mega super awesome PC for that much money, I'd get something like this.

CPU - Intel i5 2500k (don't even look at anything else) ~$200

Mobo - SLI/Crossfire capable mobo made by Asus, MSI or Gigabyte ~$140

GPU - 6970 or GTX570. ~$320

RAM - 8 GB (2X4GB) tripple channel DDR3 ~$100

Case - Full tower case with lots of fans ~$120

HDD - 120 GB SATA 3 SSD 1 TB 7200 RPM hard drive ~$200 ~$60

Power Supply - 800 Watt Antec (or similar quality brand) ~$130

DVD DL Writer with Bluray OR DVD DL Write BLuray ROM Drive ~$100

CPU heatsink - Noctua NH-D14 ~90 bucks

 

I'll actually be building a monster PC myself in about 3 months. My Phenom II 940 CPU and mobo architecture is sturting to hold back my frame rate and I am changing to Intel camp.

Have they recently upgraded the 1155 sandy bridge boards to support triple channel? I thought they only support dual channel?

Yeah, its dual channel only for now...my bad.

I noticed that dual channel and tripple channel memory are same price and figured 1155 would support it.