Can someone please check my build?

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jdawg5600

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I'm ready to purchase PC components for the first time, just want to make sure everything is compatible... can someone please let me know any problems they see? The only thing's I'm really unsure about is the power (550W enough?) and that all components comply with this case? Thanks so much!


COOLER MASTER HAF 912 RC-912-KKN1 Black SECC/ ABS Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Antec BP550 Plus 550W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.2 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 300

ASUS P8Z68-M Pro LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory

EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

LITE-ON DVD Burner - Bulk 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS124-04

Windows 7 Premium
 
That RAM is triple channel, and your motherboard supports dual channel. If you run one of those sticks in single channel, there will be performance loss. If you want to spend that much on RAM, get these guys:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233254

And ditto to what jonny said. Depending on what you're doing, you don't need the i7. And if you don't need it, you can get a 560ti video card, which would give you better performance in games.
 
I want to get into video/content editing so I'll be running programs like Sony Vegas, Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, etc... I don't plan on doing any gaming.

Any suggestions on what I can change? I was thinking the i7 because at some point down the road I'd like to be able to upgrade the machine if I do decide to get more into professional editing. Thanks for your help guys!
 
ok, for that the i7 is a good choice, it's not going to be a huge difference over the i5, but it will be better for it. although there won't be much of an upgrade potential for it, that motherboard will support ivy bridge, but it won't be more than mayber a 10-15% increase over the 2600k and will use less power though.
 
Great! As far as my choice for GPU, how's that? I've heard NVIDIA are better all around cards and AMD was more gaming specific. You think a Ge 550 will be good to run?
 
well they're both made for gaming, and their both good all-round, just nvidia have some tech making them more useful for editing and stuff, they know how to handle the info more efficiently right now, but the newer 7000 cards seem to be better, but theirs are only the high end models right now, the lower end 7's won't be out for a while
 
The better graphics card would get better results in 3D programming only. But it really is meant for a workstation card, but those are a huge chunk of change.
 
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