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New Gene-Z Owner

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What's up guys! Finally decided to go with this board have always owned EVGA. Im really excited to get it built, here are my specs:

Asus Maximus Gene-Z
i5 2500K
Antec Khuler 920
Kingston Hyper X 1600 2x4GB
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
1TB WD Black Caviar
EVGA GTX 580
Cooler Master HAF X
Cooler Master Silent Pro 1000w PSU
LG Bluray burner
Acer 27" LED monitor

Basically just wondering if any of you guys have these parts as well and any trouble you might have run into building/tweaking the system.

Cheers
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Spathi
Level 9
When you put the vertex 3 in make sure you update the Intel RST drivers and BIOS. Some non-Intel drives are not well supported by Microsoft and Microsoft send too many sectors to TRIM (might be fixed). As well as this Intel drivers have a fix for sleep and low power states of the drives. You will have to check OCZ work properly as there are some they may not, I have not kept up with it all.

The PSU is too big, your board will idle at 100watts and go to 300 or so, you could get a smaller PSU that is more than 90% efficient at 100watts... 1000watts will only be 60 or 70% efficient.

I am actually moving down to platinum 460w or 450W with about 94-96% efficiency soon, don't even use that much now and next years GPU's will use hardly any power.

With Ivy and a next gen video card it might be less watts idle.

I have a watt meter on my case all the time and it rarely needs much power. You will need more than me for GTX580 (300w) though...

-full power normal 60W+95W+155W
-full power overclocked CPU running full tilt and 580unlockedInFur 60W+150W+300W (not that u would do CPU and GPU at the same time, maybe a game might though if it was setup badly, but even then I don't thing any games would stress all cores and the GPU like the benchmarks do) Fur does about 100watts or more than any other bench.
-normal game about 130 to 250watts or something for the whole system

Retired
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Yeah I know the PSU is way more then I need but the deal was just too good. I was originally going to go with a 750 or 850 and eventually SLI. Thanks for the tips on the SSD though much appreciated.

Spathi
Level 9
yeah to be safe sli is probably 60+155+300+300 if you wanted to run fur unlocked. No idea on that though.

to unlock it for NVidea I think u just rename the exe