will this rig work?

Will it work? Yeah. Could you do better? Sure.

For starters, lose the OCZ power supply, as several people have mentioned in the past that it produce ripple that could kill your other parts. (Plus, for what you have, you don't really need a 750 watt power supply....) One of the Corsair power supplies would work just as well, and (as long as you don't buy one from NewEgg) cost relatively less.

Are there any other parts that you're planning on reusing? And what's the primary focus of this rig?
 
I disagree with the guy above. OCZ makes good power supplies. MY 700 GameXStream has been running solid for 2 years. I think with a bio update phenoms work with the M2N-SLI Deluxe.
 
The OCZ may work but better choices exist for less money.....like the Corsair line.
 
Hagrid said:
Any reason you dont want to go intel for quad?
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im a poor bastard lol

the phenom is $200 vs $280
the sli board is only $135 vs $200+

and yeah the OCZ power supply i have in my HTPC has been working really good.
dont i need 700w+ for DUAL 8800GTS 512 MB?
 
I concur with tiraides and mitcity22, lose the OCZ PSU. The GameXStream, ModXStream and StealthXStream line of PSUs are based off the FSP Episilon PSU design which has a known history of out of spec ripple, or voltage fluctuations, at high loads that can kill or damage your system over time. Granted, you may not reach such high loads but why buy something that can potentially kill your PC?

The reason why the PSU works well for AMD_RULES is because his PC isn't loading up the PSU that much. And I'm betting he didn't know about the ripple problem. The PSU works well up to 500W but after that, it will kill/damage your system.

And for dual 8800GTS, you do not need a 700W PSU. In fact the Corsair 620HX 620W PSU can handle two 8800GTS 512MB cards in SLI. And speaking of SLI, do you actually have a monitor that goes up to 1920x1200? If not, forget about the SLI plan. SLI is only worth it if you play games at 1920x1200 at max detail.
 
Danny Bui said:
And for dual 8800GTS, you do not need a 700W PSU. In fact the Corsair 620HX 620W PSU can handle two 8800GTS 512MB cards in SLI. And speaking of SLI, do you actually have a monitor that goes up to 1920x1200? If not, forget about the SLI plan. SLI is only worth it if you play games at 1920x1200 at max detail.
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ic, ill get a 700W ish corsair, and yes i plan on getting a 24" that does 1920, so i will need 8800GTS's in SLI
 
Danny Bui said:
The reason why the PSU works well for AMD_RULES is because his PC isn't loading up the PSU that much. And I'm betting he didn't know about the ripple problem. The PSU works well up to 500W but after that, it will kill/damage your system.
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hmm.. I wasn't aware of this at all. Well i don't plan to add anything else to the rig so my next build will also use a Corsair PSU ;)
 
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