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Gaming rig critique.

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Hello everyone!

I recently built a new gaming rig for myself and I would like to hear what dedicated people think about it. What improvements I could have made? Is there any bottlenecks etc...

I got the idea for the thread via similar thread located in this forum.

So without further ado, here are the system specifications:

Case: Antec Eleven Hundred
Cooling: Six Bit Fenix 120mm fans (max rpm: 1200), and one 200mm stock fan that came with the Antec case. Antec Kuhler H2O 920 for the CPU. Everything else except the CPU is air cooled since I will not be overclocking. Partly because the GPU's are overclocked by default.
GPU: 2x Point Of View GTX 580, 3 Gb, TGT, Ultra in SLI
CPU: Intel core i7 LGA 1155, 2700K 3.5 GHz
Storage: 2x 2Tb WE caviar green for storage + 320 Seagate barracuda for storage + 60 Gb SSD Corsair Force for boot.
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth P67, TuF series.
PSU: Silverstone strider 1200W fully modular.
RAM: Corsair Vengeance, 16 Gb, 1600 MHz.
Sound card: Asus Xonar Essence STX
Fan controller: Lamptron FC2

Monitor: 3x BenQ G2420HDB
Audio: Edifier S530D 2.1, (Im currently in the market for a good set of headphones).
Mouse: R.A.T 7 contagion
Keyboard: Razer lycosa

OS: Win 7 64bit

So the point of this "quiz" if you will, is to evaluate the overall quality of my build and critique it so I could learn about any flaws, bottlenecks, performance and compatibility issues that may, or will occur.

Thank you all so much for your time and answers.
 
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The 2700K was a poor choice unless you got it for less than the price of the 2600K. If you're only gaming and not doing a ton of video/3d/audio editing/rendering, then either the 2600K or 2700K was a waste of money. You would have been fine with the 2500K if this is simply a gaming only setup.

SSD wise, I would gone for the more reliable and faster Crucial M4 64GB SSD. That Corsair Force is based off the Sandforce controller. As such, it still has that random BSOD bug. In addition, even if you wanted a Sandforce based SSD, that Corsair Force happens to be one of slower Sandforce SSDs out there. If you wanted a Sandforce, you were better off with the Corsair Force GT.

Motherboard wise, I would have gone for the Asus P8Z68-V/GEN3 or Asus P8Z68-V Pro/GEN3 motherboards instead for three reasons:
1) A Z68 mobo allows you to use the onboard video in case both of your video cards are defective
2) The Z68 mobo has slightly faster SATA 6.0Gb/s performance
3) Asus' P67 motherboards weren't exactly all that stable. It appears that their Z68 mobos are a tad more stable than their P67 mobos.
 
Thanks for the comment!

I chose the 2700K for many reasons. First It has slightly higher stock clock speed than that of a 2500 and second I was not exactly on a budget either. Third I will be doing some photo editing so I think that the 2500 would have not covered my needs entirely.

The corsair SSD was just a gamble, because I don't know much about SSD's at this point :D

But thank you again for the comment!
 
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