What do you guys think?

[Dave_6]

Originally Posted by PrivatePixel

This is an all-around solid build; for the most part, I won't change anything except for the case (for its lack of USB 3.0 ports on the front panel, as well as not having dust filters for the fans).

For the same price, I would wait for the Corsair Carbide Series 400R to make its way to retail (which is temporarily out of stock on Amazon at the moment). As you can see, it can house a pair of GTX 580s with room to spare (and yes, that is a Hydro Series H80 CPU cooler mounted in the picture ):

I don't know much about PC builds (trying to learn) but that looks like a nice build. Is it yours?

[LIONSFAN20]

I swapped out cases, and I think I will go with the Gigabyte motherboard, I have been using them for years and really like them.

[bluearth]

Originally Posted by LIONSFAN20

I swapped out cases, and I think I will go with the Gigabyte motherboard, I have been using them for years and really like them.

The Gigabyte P67A-D3-B3 doesnt support 2 NVIDIA cards in SLI, only ATI cards in crossfire. And the 2nd PCI slot is only 4x. But a single 570 should be MORE then enough by itself for a while. By the time the 570 shows some age new single cards will be a better buy then getting a second 570 for SLI anyway.

So if your not going SLI with the board your good to go.

Really wish I could help you more but I researched AMD boards for my recent build. My board was $140 but it only exceeded your board by having a few more somewhat useless 6GBs SATA connections and the 2nd PCI slot ran at 8x to your 4x. I wish I got the next step up in boards for $20 more which had a second PCI slot running at 16x or something similar to your board. Ill never need more then two 6GBs SATA connections because I will always have just 2 SATA devices, the DVD drive and Hard drive

EDIT: one more thing. Research the difference between a Intel i7-2600k and a Intel i7-2500k. I ve heard they are similar performance wise in gaming but the Intel i7-2600k shines only during multimedia processing. With $100 between the two research benchmarks and comparisons

[PrivatePixel]

Originally Posted by Dave_6

I don't know much about PC builds (trying to learn) but that looks like a nice build. Is it yours?

I wish. The image was borrowed from a website that reviewed the case. The cable management is impressive (I'm tempted to get one of my own, just to see if I can duplicate this result )

[Dave_6]

Ah ok, looks like a bada$$ build. Aren't those 580s over $400 each? Is there any game out there that requires that much GPU?