you would be good for another 2 years prob. or go ahead and sell the 560ti on ebay or via here and get a new 680gtx or the ati 7970 card..

but typicall as you know its better to sli than to buy new.. I like to skip generations.. so i most likely won't upgrade untill the 700 series nVidia or i'll prob sli my 580 soon. Althou i did have 470GTX 3-way SLI last year and just got tired of all the heat an noise even with them liquid cooled... I still have all that stuff sitting in a box.. (not the video cards)

 

I'm drooling for the 700 series

 

Definitely
wait which card did you choose

 

Yeah you'll be good

 

you'll be better than good.. I'm jealous!

 

You might save a buck if you go with the OCZ Vertex 3 SSD it has bad reviews due to old firmware. but the speed is crazy. Its what i'm using and as long as you update the firmware to the latest you will not have any issues.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6820227706

 

you know ant i believe that the z68 boards have an SSD Caching feature meaning you can install a large 2tb drive and use a smaller SSD like 60GB to get the best of both worlds. Basicly it installs the most frequent used data on the ssd and everthing else on the HDD without your involvement. Basicly you get a hybrid drive ..

read this
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4337/z68- ... dforce-ssd
and this
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4329/inte ... ing-review

 

Excellent choice
check out my post above yours.. SSD Caching!!!!!!!!

 

Yes it is a feature of all Z68 motherboards.. Read the articles and do some googling.. I do not have the function but i'm sure its just a Bios on/off feature of the motherboard.

 

We have a vast base of users with alot of knowledge. I'm surprised that only myself and xxemuxx chimed in on this.!!

 

Oh damn I thought that was a feature of all boards XD...
Guess I've just been updated too long...

Yes that's automatic on this board... I know since I'm using it and I didn't config anything for the HDD in the bios... only OCing

Probably due to lack of skills.

 

makes me want to get an z68 board...

my current setup

Motherboard: EVGA X58 Classified3
CPU: i7-980 (non extreme) OC 4.27gHz
Memory: 24GB Corsair Vengeance 1600
GPU: EVGA 580GTX 3gb
GPU: EVGA 430GT for 2 samsung monitors
SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 120gb
HDD: 250gb x 2 RAID 0
HDD: 1.5TB (backups and system image)
DVD: LG Blu-Ray ROM DVD/CD R/RW
Monitor: Dell 27"
Monitor: Samsung 20" x 2
Case: HAF-X (hate it) want the cosmo II...

Looking to add another SSD to RAID 0 for 1GB read/write speeds
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd ... ,2848.html

and also prob add another 580gtx 3gb for SLI.

 

I'll give you a hint it's not better then yours if you use your 2500k wisely.
Technically it is, but Emu's word is law.


edit: zzzz.... I have yet to buy a classified... jelly


Back to my problems again :p
So I went ahead and bought a 560 Ti to SLI just and fyi
I'm wondering should I switch to watercooling on my 212+ It's quite loud I guess at first I thought, "Hell! I love noise... Especially when they're fans." but it's getting to me when I have to turn on the 250cfm mode (Fan slide control)

 

this is what i have.

http://www.corsair.com/cpu-cooling-kits ... ooler.html

I did have a complete custom water cooling loop for 3 gpus and my cpu but my pump burned out and almost fried my CPU. So i'm done with custom watercooling. I'll stick with the all in ones w/ a warranty.