Worth building a new system soon?

[Miek]

My current system is in my signature.

 

I want to know if it'd be worthwhile to build a new rig soon. With my next rig, my intention is to go "balls to the wall", so to speak. As in, I don't plan to skimp on anything. I'd want it to be a totally high-performance rig. Or... Should I just stick with what I've got for a few more years, maybe?

[Black64]

It would depend on how much you want to spend, a "balls to the wall" system (IMO) would be 10K+.

 

Here would be my dream system, (just for fun)

 

CPU - i7-3960X WCed

Mobo - best I can get

Ram - 64GB or 32GB

GPU - 4-way 580GTX WCed

OCZ Revo drives for boot

9 3TB HDD for storage

Case - Mountain Mods Ascension

8 Cold cathodes

fill the case with Noctua fans

2 Klipish P-17B and a Klipish KW-120-THX Subwoofer

6 NEC Display Solutions MD213MG monitors

2 Strider ST1500 1500 watt PSUs

Edited December 25, 2011 by Black64

[El_Capitan]

You're fine with what you have. What's your current CPU overclock? Another GTX 460 1GB and some overclocking will do wonders for games (beating an overclocked GTX 580), and a SSD for your OS and applications will make everything snappy.

[Tjj226_Angel]

You're fine with what you have. What's your current CPU overclock? Another GTX 460 1GB and some overclocking will do wonders for games (beating an overclocked GTX 580), and a SSD for your OS and applications will make everything snappy.

 

Totally agree.

 

Even if you still want more power, doing a simple 1155 board and an i5 2500K would do you wonders. But to go all out from a 1156 socket is a little unnecessary. Wait until Haswell or Broad Street; DDR4 and GDDR6 memory should be out before you would really need an upgrade.

[aaron6581230]

You have everything you need at this point. If you start seeing games slowing down, upgrading your GPU a bit won't hurt, but you don't really need it at this point.

[IVIYTH0S]

I second the motion for another 460 in SLI and call it a day