Contemplating this build..also taking ideas!

Well, as some of you know I like to build some crazy things. I have been planning a gaming DESK complete with a new PC, PS3, and 360. I will customize a desk to something similar to this:



It will be pretty easy to do. Now, the question is should I do this? I have the money to spend about 3 grand on the build. Should I do it or something else? If you have any ideas please say them. Here is a parts list I came up with. Trying to keep it under 2-2.3k.




Also I was thinking of three of these monitors.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236049


EDITS:

New Hard Drive @ $209x2
Feel free to offer other parts just explain why.

 

No need for a 1000W power supply unless you plan on adding another 7970. Also, choose a HDD with a faster speed, like 7200rpm

 

Looks like a really neat build, but as said above I would also go for a 7200 rpm HDD. I'm pretty sure that Ivy Bridge compatible motherboards should also support 2100 ram so I would definately get 16 gigs of that instead of 1600.

Also for the poster above, I think he will also need the Power Supply to power some other stuff like the xbox/ps3.

Overall the build looks great already.

 

Are you using that power supply to power the game systems? I just thought you were going to use each of the systens individual cords and power bricks for each system.

 

You're fucking crazy! Good luck with this!

 

No, game systems are powered separately. I went with 1000w to leave the room to upgrade to a second 7970 if I want. I will look into bumping the ram to 2100. Bumped to the 7200 HDD, I thought it was 7200 without reading it lol.

Does anyone have any ideas of something to do other than a desk?

 

Very nice, and very expensive >_<. Have you thought about going for an Nvidia GPU? There's nothing exceptionally wrong with AMD, but I find more games are optimised fro Nvidia today, something out of the 600 series would last you a good while, especially if you went SLI.

 

I was looking into the OC'd 680, I don't have much experience with them and I have a buddy that worked on this project for AMD so I thought I would try it out =p

 

You could build it and throw it inside of a freezer or fridge or something, that would actually be cool, and keep it running cool.

 

Yes, I would take a WD Raptor instead of Seagate HDD. Its really faster.

 

Needs a 7200RPM drive, IMO smaller SSD(120g for OS, most played games), 7200rpm(1tb/2tb) for other games & then maybe another drive for media(like the seagates you originally picked)

WD Raptors are shit.

Quality 850w(Corsair, Seasonic, Antec, Silverstone, preferably silver/gold rated) will power your system even with CFX 7970s(they are really good for power consumption).

 

Did you end up selling the xbox pc thing?