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is this a good gaming system?

•CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-980X Extreme Edition 3.33 GHz 12M Intel Smart Cache LGA1366
•HDD: 160 GB Intel X25-M 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (160GB x 4 (320GB Capacity) Raid 0+1 Extreme Performance with Data Security [+964])
•MEMORY: 24GB (4GBx6) DDR3/1600MHz Triple Channel Memory Module [+483] (Corsair or Major Brand)
•MOTHERBOARD: (3-Way SLI Support) EVGA X58 SLI Classified Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX DDR3 Mainboard w/GbLAN,USB2.0,IEEE1394a,&7.1Audio [+153]
•SOUND: Creative Labs SB X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series PCI Express Sound Card [+199]
•VIDEO: Liquid Cooling NVIDIA GTX Series PCIe Video [+453] (Liquid Cooling NVIDIA GTX 480 1.5GB GDDR5 VRAM)
is this a good gaming system?
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CPU: Yes
HDD: No
Memory: 20gb of pointlessness…4gb max, 6 if you’re anal
Mobo: No comment (not good, not bad, simply is…)
Sound: Pointless…
GPU: Yes

The system is a great over the top status symbol. If you’re trying to “compensate” with an ego boost, you’re doing fine. Would *I* buy it? HELL NO!

The i7 is the best quad core on the market, and there are actually one or two games that recommend it as the best for the game (Ghostbusters for one).

The SSDs SUCK…they are Flash memory, and the LAST thing you want for an OS (or other high-useage) drive is memory that dies after a certain number of read/write cycles. When you consider that you’re probably seeing 2-3 read/write cycles minimum per second….that 1,000,000 r/w cycles start coming closer REALLY fast!
Until the industry takes care of that issue…HDDs are better than SSDs…they’re just not as “sexy”. (And if you’re looking for speed, put the OS on a velociraptor 160gb drive, and everything else on t-drives.)
As for RAIDing your drives…I’ve heard good and bad. you can achieve almost the same effect by regularly backing-up your drives, and also running periodic defrag scans (and defraging when the % exceeds 10%).

Firstly…4gb DDR3 cards are HIDEOUSLY overpriced.
Secondly…the increased latency in the average DDR3 card makes any boost over DDR2 almost completely moot.
Thirdly…unless you’re running something like NASA’s shuttle simulator or a Commercial Pilot Training simulator, 24gb is so overkill that it isn’t funny. By the time you’ll start using any more than 30-40% of that amount, you’ll have to replace it because no one supports DDR3 anymore…it’ll be too old.
Fourth…for the next several years, you’ll likely need no more than 3-4gb for best results on a game.

EVGA makes a decent mobo…not the best, but not the worst. I’ve never heard anything bad (or good, but that is irrelevant) about them.

The sound card is (generally) moot, since the average mobo now-a-says supports something like Dolby 5.0 surround sound, so, other than loosing a PCi socket, there is no real advantage. You can probably skip the sound card and never notice the difference – other than in the wallet.

The Video card is the best single core GPU card on the market…even if it is nVidia…the draw back is the blowtorch like blast of heat blasting out the back of your computer. Presumably the “water” cooling will help with that AND the almost Jet Engine-like whine as the fan spools up. (Those puppies are LOUD!) Currently, the only better card on the market is the ATi HD5970, which is the dual GPU version of the HD5870. Had TMSC not announced (after the chips had been designed and release dates announced) that they were skipping the 32nm die shrink to work on the 28nm dies, the HD6870 would have likely put the 480 into the dustbin of history…>shrug< what can you do?)
As for the 1.5gb or GDDR...unless you're planning to watch BluRay movies on your computer, that is a full gb of GDDR that is irrelevant. Anything in excess of 512mb is "icing" and has little to no impact on what you're seeing.

So...is it a *good* system? Yes.
So...is it a *great* system? No.

Now...would *I* buy it?
Nope, not a chance in the hot place that snowballs don't like. I can score an AMD quad or hex core for half or less the price of the Intel. SSD's suck, DDR3 isn't enough of an improvement over DDR2, there are better things I can put in my computer for $200 than a sound card (like a second vid card with the change to an AMD proc and loosing the sound card). Too much money for too little, with too-much "bling." (i.e.: too much extra cash outlay for not enough boost in performance.)

Good Luck!

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