Sandy Bridge Build advice

[earthlingsmurf]

OK so I had asked advice on a previous build but decided to go sandy bridge instead of the i7 980x

Here is the proposed build

Case: Thermaltake ArmorPlus Case

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD7

Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz

Memory: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600

Power Supply: CORSAIR Professional Series AX1200 1200W ATX12V

Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) SuperClocked+ 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16

Graphics Card: XFX Radeon HD 5870 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16

Hard Drive: OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SATA II (SSD)

Optical Drive: Pioneer Blu-Ray/DVD

PCI card: Dynex DX-PCI2PF FireWire PCI Express

CPU Cooler: CoolIT Systems CPU Cooler (plan on overclocking)


Any and all advice appreciated.

 

[nicfargo]

Why both a GTX 480 and a 5870? If you're using the GTX for Physx in Windows...you don't need to waste that much money to get decent results. Maybe I'm missing something.

Also, I'm not sure about the SIIG Card. I've read on here that someone else couldn't get a SIIG to work. But they had luck with a Dynex 2 800 1 400 card. Do a search for Firewire 800 on the forum...should be like the first option that comes up.

 

[earthlingsmurf]

I plan on using three monitors for this machine, video editing

 

[nicfargo]

If you got one of the 5870's with 6 mini-DP connections...you wouldn't need 2 cards. Could save you some money?

 

[Sparticus]

I built an i7 2600k SB system.

The thing flies doing conversion in Handbrake.

Just make sure your RAM heat sinks will fit with your CPU cooler.