Something new for Me....

[Dirk Broer]

According to Tom's Hardware top model Radeons work best in Intel systems and top model nVidia works best in AMD systems.
Strange but true...

[Terry1953]

According to Tom's Hardware top model Radeons work best in Intel systems and top model nVidia works best in AMD systems.
Strange but true...

That is strange. It seems to be proving out on the I7 with a 6870.

[Terry1953]

OK Guys here we go again. How about this for just crunching?

ASUS P8B75-V LGA 1155 Intel B75 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131835

Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770K
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116501

Was going to use this I5 but what the heck I'd probably regret not getting the I7 later so I'm going with the I7.

Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I53570K
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116504

SanDisk Extreme SDSSDX-120G-G25 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820171567

2 for a total of 16GB Kingston HyperX 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory Model KHX1600C10D3B1/8G
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820104301

Thermaltake SP-1200M 1200W ATX 12V 2.3 & EPS 12V 2.92 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817153162

I have this stuff in the cart I just haven't hit the button yet.

Along with 2 5870's I have coming.

[Dirk Broer]

All solid choices, afaik

[NeoGen]

Terry, I think you are on the right track there. I would only chop off some of the cost from the SSD by switching it to a regular cheap HDD (SSD is awesome but gives no more credits for pure crunching), and instead apply that extra money in a more powerful mobo that has 3 or maybe 4 PCIe 3.0 slots. That Asus one only has 1 PCIe 3.0 and 1 PCIe 2.0 slots. Unless you have a specific use in mind for the 3 PCI slots I don't think it's worth it.