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Build Advice - IvyBridge i7 / Gigabyte Z77Z-X-UD5H / GTX 560ti

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Motherboard
GA-Z77X-UD5H
CPU
Intel i7 3770k
Graphics
Nvidia GTX 570
Mac
  1. iMac
  2. MacBook Pro
Classic Mac
  1. 0
Mobile Phone
  1. iOS
Before I make the plunge and order my parts, would appreciate it if someone could just sanity check the parts I've selected :crazy:

Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W)
EVGA GeForce GTX 560Ti "448 Edition" FTW 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
GeIL Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive
OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply

From what I can piece together this should all work fine with the appropriate tweaks. I'm in desperate need of a new Mac, so want to order parts in anticipation of ML being released (Even if it's not, I will just go the Lion route).
 
Looks good to me, although I'm not familiar with the latest nVidia cards, but the 560Ti should work quite well from what I understand. Just make sure you install the OpenCL driver.
 
Thanks!

I'm slightly torn as to whether I should just get two 6870's as it's better supported it would seem. Then for games performance on the windows side I could just have two cards running in Crossfire (I know that wont work on the Mac side). I don't really know how much of a difference the GTX 560 ti would make over the 6870 in OSX if it's not officially supported.
 
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