What would my FPS be with this?

Are you just making a $3,500 rig to just play Crossfire? If so, HUGE waste!

This game doesn't use more than 2 or 3 cores, and a SINGLE 6970 will already provide 200FPS+.

It seems the game has a FPS cap of around 200FPS...single 5850 or two does nothing. Stock vs 4GHz for my system, not much FPS increase.

The more RAM chips you have, the more stress you put on the RAM controllers.

No programgam out there uses 12GB of RAM. Some Games actually use 4GB-6GB, but that's with all the eye candy cranked up. (Example Crysis 2 with every setting maxed out/turned on..DX11, tesselation, AA, shadows, reflection, etc).

If you've looked at some reviews, more RAM only provides MARGINAL FPS increase. Overclocking and tightening the RAM timings actually gives more performance (but still nto much).

SSD's have come a long way, and with the new SSD's with the new SandForce controllers & the included garbage collection features, they will last you several years. You also get 3x the better read & write speeds compared to normal 7200 RPM or 10,000RPM drives.

Your hard drives will be the bottleneck for your system...unless you plan to run them in RAID.

Socket LGA 1366 is out-dated, and it's being replaced as Ivy-Bridge (LGA 2011?) is coming out soon.

The Gigabyte G1 board that you chose; will you even use all the features, or will it just be for looks? Will you plan on using all 3 of the PCI-E X16 slots? Will you be overclocking to large amounts and make use of all of the 8 power phases, overclocking chokes, additional capactiorsVRMs, etc?

What about the on-board Bigfoot Networks Killer E2100 chip? Will you be running games that will actual put it to good use? LAN parties?

Well, as far as I know the 580 is better than the 6970.

But the 590 and 6990 are equals... the 6990 outperforms the 590 in some games, just like the 590 outperforms the 6990 in some games. They are pretty much balanced performance wise.

But having a single 590 or 6990 will probably be better than two 580s or 6970s due to you only getting about 50% performance from the 2nd card.

Limeeeee wrote: »

I just don't justify of his choice of the 990x. I mean, he'll be buying a dead socket and a very over priced CPU that is almost out performed by Intel's new $300 Sandy Bridge i5/i7's, and they're $600 less. You should buy the i7 2600k ($300) which is a beast and use the money that you saved on better graphical power, or high capacity SSD's.

Or wait for intel's new processor... they are undoubtedly planning something to counter the bulldozer. I mean... that design with each core having an individual die could very well be the breaking point in intel's dominance.

But I do agree that the 990x is a waste. I would personally go with a i5 2500k and a 6990 since he is an amd gpu fanboy.

Then get a 64 gb ssd for boot and a 10000 rpm 1 tb velociraptor for storage.

p.s. limes.

switch the bios switch in the 6990 to overclocked mode.

equal if not better performance than 2 6970's.

The 6990 is quite literally 2 6970's stuck together. With a slower stock speed than the 6970... once you switch it to overclocked performance it catches up to the 6970.

FIREAGLE wrote: »

Idk how to Over clock at all...

There is a switch on the 6990 which will set itself.

FIREAGLE wrote: »

Anyways I'm putting my 580s in SLI

Also, when I rig my HDD's how do I do it so I DON't put it in Raid?

Why wouldn't you want your hdd's in raid?

Two hdd's in raid 0 offers better performance. Or put them in Raid 1 for data security.