It will perform exceptionally well, but you may want a better power supply just so that you may have some head room if ever decide to overclock and / or add another 6970 for CrossFire sometime in the future.
inb4 amd cannot drivers.
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Less than 100 SEK more for another 40 GB of SSD goodness. Get 5% off on CDON with the code SWEC1201.
You said you'll be playing games, so there's no point in wasting your money on a 2600K. Spend that money on a good CPU-cooler instead and overclock the 2500K: Thermalright Silver Arrow Multiple Heatpipe Cooler - Inet.se
The PSU performs well according to reviews but it's old and just 80+ standard. I'd say grabbing something like the AX 750 would be worth it. Semi-passive fan, fully modular, 80+ gold and lots of headroom.
The Silent Pro M would still work though. Corsair AX 750W Professional Series Gold/Modul�ra kablar - Hemelektronik - CDON.COM
Reaching 4.5 GHz is a peace of cake with Sandy Bridge. It should be easy even for first timers, just read first and ask if you're unsure.
SATA cables are bundled with the motherboard.
Crossfire and SLI are great for performance but one should be aware of potential problems that come with it, such as micro stutter. I wouldn't recommend CF/SLI for someone who wants their gaming machine to just work.
In BIOS, switch SATA mode from IDE or whatever to AHCI before installing your OS on the SSD.
Battlefield 3?
Better performance and compatibilty with your SSD. Haven't really read anything about it though so I can't give you a proper answer.Thanks for your respond, but I'd like to buy all the stuff from one company. Also I do not have any reason to not trust the reviews, and I will not only be playing games but also working with Adobe programs etc. I will not get Crossfire nor SLI.
Whats the difference between IDE and AHCI? And if AHCI would be better why isn't it already default?
Thanks for your reply
Better performance and compatibilty with your SSD. Haven't really read anything about it though so I can't give you a proper answer.
But really, you don't think 500 SEK less for an HDD double the size is worth it? And a 50% larger SSD for 100 SEK more?
Sounds fair, I'll consider it
Really, you should. You'll probably regret it later otherwise
If you still feel like you've got money to spend you could switch the HD 6970 for a GTX 580. +500 SEK but is more powerful (more precious FPS) and supports CUDA (should speed up some work in the Adobe suite a bit, depends on what you're doing).
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CUDA in Photoshop: Photoshop CS5: CUDA : Adobe CS5: 64-bit, CUDA-Accelerated, And Threaded Performance
CUDA in Premiere Pro: Premiere Pro CS5 (Render) : Adobe CS5: 64-bit, CUDA-Accelerated, And Threaded Performance
They used a 980X and a GTX 480 in these tests: Test Configuration : Adobe CS5: 64-bit, CUDA-Accelerated, And Threaded Performance
The advantage of CUDA is obvious
I will buy that harddrive, but not the SSD as I got no need for another 40G of space, I will only place my OS on that drive so 80G should be okay.
I got no need of having a super fast PS, so I will stick with the 6970 I got on the list atm.
Thanks alot anyway, you helped me !
You're not going for the SSD? Really? It's just 100 SEK more and you decide not to? Var inte dumsnål!
80 GB is nothing! My 120 GB drives filled very quickly (120 GB OCZ Vertex 3, 120 GB Intel 510, 64 GB Crucial M4).
Those 40 GB are great for games like BF3 which suffers from long map load times. Or for your Adobe programs. Or both. More.
Don't think like that... you'll regret it later
I would also recommend going for at least 120GB SSD
but I would still focus on having the library of installed games in the regular 1TB HD. You can make bf3 cache the map in the SSD HD later on to increase the performance. SSD should at this time only be for OS + basic smaller programs since its pretty expensive to store stuff there, and nothing is more frustrating than a full OS partition!