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    \ Google is skynet in its infancy. That review provided all the information I need to make me feel confident in that choice, thanks so much for your insight. I swapped out my RAM now with two sets of the G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900)...
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    Decided to go with the Corsair TX850 V2 @ 134 with a $10 MIR. My build is just about done and I am feeling alot more confident now thanks to the advice you guys have given me. I am just stuck now as I am looking at Two 1tb Seagate HDDs that are the same in all aspects (price, size, latency/...
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    OK I am going to pull the trigger on these cards. I waited yesterday and some things prices went up. How is the rest of my choices? The one I am most worried about is my Mobo and my psu.
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    I decided to take your advice and I am going to pick up the MSI Twin Frozr II Radeon HD 6950 2GB (two of them) I am going to get one from newegg and one from Tiger Direct. They are both 279 but I will end up getting a total of 3 free games with it so I think its an even trade off...
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    Its very rare for me to get a game on release date so I am alright with that. I enjoy gaming alot but I never really head out and grab a game day 1 as I already have a pretty big collection i need to work through
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    First time builder

    Yes, I was reading up and it was showing that in multi gpus setups, Crossfire and the 6950 scales better than SLI does.
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    First time builder

    Sorry, I forgot to mention that I will be running them in crossfire, so will that still be an issuse?
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    My Apologies for not listing everything I should have in my first post I plan on playing games such as BF3. Skyrim. WItcher 2. I am hoping to be able to run them at max/near max settings and keep a solid 60fps. I have been reading and it seems that the 6950 gets huge gains in Crossfire which...
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    First time builder

    Brand new to these forums...Its my first time building a rig and I have just been researching non-stop (its how I came across these forums) and now my head is starting to spin. I think I am doing a good job so far but I am worried my untrained eyes may miss something critical..So here I am...
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