no bottleneck?

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should i change any component? i'll get an ssd later

 

That is a beast =)

 

There will always be a bottleneck no matter how powerful your computer is.

 

Your only bottleneck is that you can only play one game at a time, functionally.
Lucky duck.

 

well i'm using my own money to buy this. my parents would not give me a cent there goes the qx9300 and the gtx280 sli, not so lucky after all

 

That'll be a beast. The bottleneck will be baby quad right there -->Q9000
But that wont stop you from playing any game. And the other quads are ridiculously expensive unless ES.

 

i really want to get the qx9300 but i have no more money to shell out. maybe you can give me some

 

In terms of an actual bottle. You dont have enough going through the bottles neak to create a bottleneak.

 

The only thing I see as a major bottleneck to the system is the hard drive setup. To match your beast of a specifications up top, either go with RAID-0 on 2x320GB or 2x500GB 7200 RPM or an 120GB SSD + 500GB drive.

 

I'd say save the money and buy the cheapest processor you can. Then sell it on Ebay, save a little money, and then get the QX9300. You'll appreciate that you did. Since most games dont utilize 4 cores yet, you'll be running on 2 slower cores, where as with the qx9300 even games that don't utilize 4 cores will still run nicely on it, and I do believe this machine supports OCing. =)

 

yeah dude do what he says

but if i were u i would get the cheapest configuration and then get the dual 280GTX cuz it will worth the money

the processor u can get it later pretty "cheap" if compared to the AW prices

good luck man

 

So your saying upgrade his cpu a few ghz when he could just overclock his current one?

 

i'm hoping that i can oc it to 2.5ghz

 

No, I'm saying upgrade his cpu and then OC to ~3.0ghz.