best upgrades for my system Asus P6T Deluxe LGA1366 motherboard

[stenob590]

hi guys this is my first thread im a noob.
im buying this pc and want to know wheather to upgrade it or to leave it how it is. the guy im buying it off says its a monster spec.
also i know nothing about components so i dont know what components are compatable with this motherboard.
what i want to do is upgrade it to the best possible rig i will upgrade the cpu to the all famous intel i7 980x extreame and then overclock it to 4.0GHz (please advise me on which cooler to buy nothing too complicated to install),
upgrade the graphics card ,(suggestions please) add another 6gb ram,add more hard drives (probably some 2tb hdd's) once ive put all theese in ill probably need a new power supply maybe 1200w or somthing what do you guys think?
theese are my specs :
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 CPU @ 2.67GHz LGA1366 with stock cooler

Motherboard: Asus P6T Deluxe LGA1366

RAM: 6GB RAM OCZ DDR3 PC3-8500

GPU: Sapphire Radeon ATI HD 4870 512MB

Hard Drive 1: Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB 7200rpm

Hard Drive 2: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200rpm

Optical Drive 1: LG Super Multi Blu-Ray Read/Write

Optical Drive 2: LG Super Multi DVD Read/Write

PSU: Corsair 650W

Case: Antec Twelve Hundred

Keyboard: Microsoft USB Digital Media Keyboard 3000

Mouse: Microsoft USB Wireless Optical Mouse

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium

Game Controller: Microsoft Xbox USB wired controller



Motherboard key specifications:



6 x DIMM max. 12GB DDR3 1600(O.C.)/1333/1066MHz non-ECC unbuffered memory

3 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots, 1 x PCI Express x4 slot, 2 x PCI slots, SLI / Crossfire compatible

6 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports, Intel Matrix Storage supporting SATA RAID 0, 1, 5 & 10

2 x SAS ports supporting SAS RAID 0 and 1

2 x Marvel PCIe Gigabit LAN RJ45 out

8 x USB ports on back panel, 2 x USB ports on front panel

1 x firewire(IEEE 1394a) port on back panel

1 x eSATA port each on front and back panel

2 x DVI output from ATI graphics card for dual-monitor set-up if required

On-board 8 channel high definition audio with Coaxial / optical / SPDIF out port on back panel

1 x PS/2 keyboard / mouse combo port

please help!

 

[PCS]

Rather than buying a 2nd hand PC, and spend so much time and effort upgrading it, why not treat yourself to a new PC similar to your saved quotation? Otherwise you're going to end up changing everything apart from the case and motherboard, then have to try re-sell the individual components.

When you work out the cost, there will probably not be much difference...

 

[stenob590]

yes thats true but this way i can upgrade parts when i can afford it instead of getting a loan to buy the new one.
what about this? :
Best single graphics card:
Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 <-- Get two of these since your motherboard supports sli
Doing this you will need a bigger Power supply.
PSU: 950W bronze certified corsair
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…
This power supply is one I would suggest, either that or the 1000W silver certified corsair

Hard drive:
intel x-25 m 160 GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…
This is a solid state drive. Much faster than hard drive. Get 4 of them and put them in raid 0 for ultimate performance. (raid 0 basically dramatically increases the spead of your computer) every1 will go DANG THAT LOADED FAST! with 4 raid 0 of these. Watch some youtube videos of this for example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDwr5IDzS… This is an example of just 2! imagine 4!
If you want some more storage also purchase
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…
and have that as bigger storage while you install operating system on the solid state drives. If this is not enough space you can either buy another one or use ur current 7200 rpm harddrives as backup for your solid state drives.

Fan for CPU:
Vigor Monsoon III LT Dual 120mm Fan CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…

Sound card:
I"m not as used to looking for sound cards as others may, but I came across this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…
It looked like a good one, and it supports asio2

 

[PCS]

As far as I'm aware newegg only ship to the USA - you are based in the UK, right?

Also - we only usually provide advice for the components we integrate into the computers sell - we cannot comment on components we have not researched or had any experience with...

 

[Gorman]

Of the components you listed we only stock the GTX 480 which is a great card, cant really comment on the rest as we havnt had hands on experience of them.

 

[stenob590]

i want theese sound cards (im getting 2) because apparently you can get 3 hd 3d ready screens and play 3d games. someone on a diffrent thread said something about making 2 cards into 1 ultra card do you know what they mean i hope i dont have to do this it would probably void the warrenty also i know they won't deliver to te uk, a guy on another thread gave me theese links and advised me to buy theese parts. i will buy them from amazon or another online uk store.