Please comment on my build???

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bigd54

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After much deliberation I finially pieced this together. Can I please get some opinions and is everthing compatable? Thanks
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131299
Mobo Will it be good for oc and crossifre?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814103064
video card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115041
processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227298
Ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148294
Hardrive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136147
dvd/ cd drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116488
Os is ultimate worth it?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129043&Tpk=antec+twelvehundred
Case and psu combo

Suggestions and input are welcome. Thanks for your time.
 
You should find a different mobo, if you are planning to CF it, the second PCI-E slot only runs at a x8 speed rather than the full x16 speed.

And for CPU, ask Omega. He can tell you if there's any difference with the Q9450 and the Q9550.
 
Looks very good, i agree with that one.

That processor will be good, but as suggested Intel_man, OMEGA can tell you more.

Also Ultimate is worth it :P
 
It seems to me that most P45 boards that have CF support either uses a x16/x8, x16/x0, x8/x8 layout. I'll see if they have a x16/x16 layout.



EDIT: It might be because of the CF technology limiting it to have such a layout. Don't quote me on it, but if it is true then the board you listed is a good buy.



Unless you insist on buy a layout of x16/x16 then nvidia SLi is the way to go.
 
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Thanks for the time spent Intel man. I would go for sli but from my understanding the 4870 is the best card for its price.
 
the only real differance between the q9450 and q9550, is a clockspeed differance of 200mhz, if your still wondering
 
Hmmm... the age-old "gaming vs. number-crunching" dilemma. Several years ago, it was AMD for gaming, Intel for digital media; now, it's dual-core for gaming and quad for digital media. Gaming favors memory speed; digital media favors memory capacity.

You said "mostly" gaming, though, so I'd recommend a higher-clocked dual-core chip (E8k series is nice).

With 4 gb of memory, Vista won't slow your computer down quite so much, though it would still plague you with incompatibility issues (my advice: use XP Pro). I also would have gone with 4x1gb instead of 2x2gb, but whatever...
 
Hmmm... the age-old "gaming vs. number-crunching" dilemma. Several years ago, it was AMD and faster/less memory for gaming, Intel and more/slower memory for digital video editing/compression. Now, it's dual-core for gaming and quad for digital media.

You said "mostly" gaming, though, so I'd recommend a higher-clocked dual-core chip (E8k series is nice).
 
Intel_man said:
You should find a different mobo, if you are planning to CF it, the second PCI-E slot only runs at a x8 speed rather than the full x16 speed.

And for CPU, ask Omega. He can tell you if there's any difference with the Q9450 and the Q9550.
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I wish someone said that for the 5k pro after reading this and lookg at the 5kpro it only runs at 4x or 1xmode Thanks for this useful advice intel_man
 
Nigouki said:
Hmmm... the age-old "gaming vs. number-crunching" dilemma. Several years ago, it was AMD and faster/less memory for gaming, Intel and more/slower memory for digital video editing/compression. Now, it's dual-core for gaming and quad for digital media.

You said "mostly" gaming, though, so I'd recommend a higher-clocked dual-core chip (E8k series is nice).
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As a matter of fact, he should go with a quad. He did state editing videos, and converting which does stress the duo's quite a lot.
 
I think the build looks great.

my tiny problem is you should get an sata dvd drive. it is not like that drive won't work, but IDE is a dying technology and you can have better cable management and better airflow with sata.

about the x8 on the second slot, it is pcie 2.0 x8 which equals pcie x16. graphics cards haven't saturated the bandwidth on a pcie x16, so the performance hit during crossfire will be neglectible.

to intel_man, the reason why p45 mobo don't have pcie 2.0 x16/x16 is because the northbridge only allows 16 lanes of pcie 2.0. so while in crossfire the best a p45 mobo can do is pcie 2.0 x8/x8 or pcie 1.0 x16/x16
 
Looks fair, but it says the memory standard is 1200 and not 1066, so you might need to get different ram. I dunno if ram is backwards compatible, which i'm assuming it's not.
 
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