First Build advice wanted

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LazySpiral

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This will be my first attempt at building my own machine. I mostly play around with multi media and video.
I was looking for something that also offered a basis for future upgrades. I think I got all the needed parts! :)

Any comments and suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks to all in this great educational forum.


Case: Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower
PSU: CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W
Board: ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 Processor - 2.66GHz, 8MB L3 Cache
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master V8
RAM: Corsair XMS3 Tri Channel 12GB PC10666 DDR3 Memory - 1333MHz
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
Optical: LG Model GGW-H20L
Audio: Creative Labs SB0880 PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
Video: Sapphire Radeon HD4870 1GB DDR5 Dual DVI / TVO PCI-Express
Monitor: Acer H243Hbmid 24" Full HD LCD
Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech® MX® 3200 Laser Cordless Desktop® Bundle
 
LOL, yes, the most fundamental are the first forgotten :)

Always have run Win XP Pro but looks like I'm going to have to migrate to Vista Ultimate 64 bit to really make full use of the hardware. New things to learn!

Noticed you were running Word 7. What do you think of it?
 
12 gig of RAM.... only because it is cheap. Found it for $80 for 6 gig.

Debated going with less, faster memory but from what I've read in the forum it wouldn't make a noticeable difference for the increased cost.
 
LazySpiral said:
12 gig of RAM.... only because it is cheap. Found it for $80 for 6 gig.

Debated going with less, faster memory but from what I've read in the forum it wouldn't make a noticeable difference for the increased cost.
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I would rather have 6gb of fast RAM than 12gb of slightly slower RAM. Unless you are doing some serious rendering you will see no difference between 6gb and 12. However, you will notice a difference between slow RAM and fast.
 
vista 64-bit isnt a hard transition from xp in my experience. its really user friendly now that they fixed many of the compatibility errors. windows 7 is amazing and i'm gonna for sure get it when it comes out. i havent looked it up so dont hold me to it but i heard that if you buy vista now that microsoft will trade you for a windows 7 copy when it comes out. anybody else know more about that?
 
I've not heard that about Windows 7.

Also, about the RAM, at the EVGA forums where I hang out also, there
were alot of people complaining that my board wouldn't recognize DDR3
1600 RAM, it ran it at 1066.

Most of the overclockers there quoted benchmarks running the same
amount of RAM, but running at slower or faster speeds. (1066v1600)
and they all say that the difference is negligible.

Meaning you won't see a huge difference if you run either speed.

It may make a bigger difference with DDR2 with lower bus speeds
on the older boards, idk.

This is for my board, mind you, I'm not generalizing. Just throwing
it out there.
 
Looks like a great build man. If you have plans on overclocking then I would get faster ram but if you are leaving everything at stock speeds then the ram is not really going to come into play. Your setup will be very similar to mine and theres nothing I can't do with mine. I use 12gb for Virtual Machines, if you can get the ram cheap I say why not. There was a day when people thought 2 gb of ram was over kill and now most people build with atleast 4gb. Good luck on the build and make sure to report back to us on how everything goes :)
 
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