Will these parts fit/comply?

Kelranox

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I think I've finalized on some parts for my first PC build. However, I want to ensure that everything will mesh and as such, I'm posting here prior to having purchased it. Overall, everything will value to around $1400. I want this to be an amazingly fast and efficient gaming computer, along with having the ability to render HD videos quite rapidly. So, any and all feedback on this would be greatly appreciated:

Case: NZXT Apollo Black SECC Steel Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Motherboard: ASUS M4N98TD EVO AM3 NVIDIA nForce 980a SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

GPU: EVGA 012-P3-1571-KR GeForce GTX 570 HD w/Display-Port (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

PSU: CORSAIR Professional Series HX650 (CMPSU-650HX) 650W ATX12V v2.2 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

CPU Fan COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1 "Heatpipe Direct Contact" Long Life Sleeve 120mm CPU Cooler Compatible Intel Core i5 & Intel Core i7

Thermal Compound Tuniq TX-2 Cooling Thermal Compound

Extra Fan Rosewill RFA-120-BL 120mm 4 Blue LEDs LED Case Fan

Speakers: Logitech Z523 40 Watts RMS 2.1 Speaker System

Keyboard: LITE-ON SK-1788/BS 2-Tone 104 Normal Keys PS/2 Wired Standard Keyboard

Card Reader: Kingston FCR-HS219/1 19-in-1 USB 2.0Card Reader

RAM: CORSAIR DOMINATOR 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMP8GX3M2A1600C9

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDE00ZFBGRBOX

OS: Windows 7

Blu Ray Player: SAMSUNG Black 12X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA Internal Blu-ray Combo Model SH-B123L LightScribe Support - OEM

I'm unsure of what CD/DVD drive would suffice, so I suppose that's where I'm stuck. Besides that, I'm pretty much set.
 
Hi,

I should point out 2 things to be fair :

1.
anything you do to make a pc better, will be out of date a few months later, an so you neednt then spend a shed load of money on something supposedly great, when it wont be that 'great' by xmas time.

2.
by adjusting the settings on current or old hardware you can get better performance without having to spend any money at all! :)
an i dont just mean software installs, but the o/s, an cmos even.

hope that helps, as my 1st forum reply here.
 
^^ too bad it isn't really right, the cpu may be a little less suggestable by next month, otherwise everything will still be fine, and also upgrading something else wouldn't be any good for this high end of a setup, since you'd have to replace everything, just it isnt worth it

but agreed with daisy, the 2500k is better, otherwise i'd either get a 945 or similar for the next month then a bulldozer 4150, amd's next gen of cpus, should be better, and for gaming, the 2 more cores are pointless, only fsx uses more than 4 cores, and the majority of games only use 2 anyways.

also this ram will work with the am3+'s, and will be faster, that ram you picked is overpriced, not even low latency.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220562

and the psu is also overpriced for this, this will do anything and is barely less powerful.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139028

and this is a great deal for now though if you plan to order in the next week or so

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...-082511-Index-_-PowerSupplies-_-17371031-L06C

also check all the combos, can normally save a good chunk with them
 
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jonnyp11;1672770and the psu is also overpriced for this said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139028[/URL]

The CX is a lowerend Channel Well built power supply, the reason it goes for 50 buck with a rebate. The HX is higher quality. Plus the CX only has 40 amps in the 12V. The HX has 52 amps.
 
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