Help Me Check My Dream Rig

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I need advice and suggestions about my dream rig. I have a budget of about $1800(this is slightly flexible) and I am not interested in any peripherals (monitors,mouse, and keyboard are all taken care of). I have done some research and have picked out some prospective parts, but I would like some opinions. I intend to play high end games as well as render out movies on this thing. This is my first build.

Things I want to know:
+Are all of these parts good choices? If not suggestions of alternatives.
+Do all these parts fit together? If not which ones are incompatible.
+Is there an important component I've missed?
+Will I be gleaning the best performance from these parts?
+Are there any obvious performance bottlenecks I've missed?
+Is there something else that I totally need to add because it will make my rig over 9000 times better?

Thanks in advance.


My choices so far.

OS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116986

Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147157

Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131821

Processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116501

Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125423

Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233246

SSD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233206

HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185

Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182133
 
the powersupply is not the greatest. Look for something by Asus, Corsair, Seasonic, Silverstone, XFX, or NZXT. OCZ is also good.

The gigabyte Z77 UD3H and UD5H will do the same job as that board with better support and for less money.

Is rendering movies anything like rendering used in CAD programs? If it is you would be better off using a Quadro or Firepro card over a gaming card. Either will do the job, just a matter of how well.

you don't have a DVD drive there. Any drive will work, just grab the cheapest on the site when you order.

Everything else looks fine to me.
 
everything will fit. Well I am pretty sure. Not sure how that case does with larger graphics cards, but it looks like a fairly large case.

that PSU looks good.
 
Supports up to 16.5" (42cm) length VGA card (HDD cage removed).

His card will fit even if the HDD cage is intact because...
Supports up to 11.8" (30cm) length VGA card (HDD cage NOT removed)
 
You'll need Windows 7 Pro or higher if you wanna use all 16GB of your RAM. Your video card will use 2GB of the Win7 Home 16GB limitation.
 
it does. part of the reason my M90 reads a max of 2.7GB even though its got 4GB installed. 3.2 of 32 bit XP and .5 of vRAM.
 
claptonman said:
You'll need Windows 7 Pro or higher if you wanna use all 16GB of your RAM. Your video card will use 2GB of the Win7 Home 16GB limitation.
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Windows 7 home can running 16 GB limited and does not limit any video memory. You need to research it before you can give advice to OP or give information, then provide source link. Here is link of RAM limited on different windows version.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...=vs.85).aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_7

Also how it affect between video card memory and RAM, is it depend on how much RAM you have. Not depend on windows version.
 
Jamebonds1 said:
Windows 7 home can running 16 GB limited and does not limit any video memory. You need to research it before you can give advice to OP or give information, then provide source link. Here is link of RAM limited on different windows version.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...=vs.85).aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_7

Also how it affect between video card memory and RAM, is it depend on how much RAM you have. Not depend on windows version.
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Win7 Home can only address 16GB of RAM. If he has 16GB of RAM with a video card that has 2GB, that video card will use 2 GB of the 16GB limitation, like I said. It will say he has 14GB of RAM usable, give or take. Don't tell me to do research when you don't do it.
 
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