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Permalink Reply by iЛенин on November 6, 2010 at 11:19pm

What I would do is forget the sound card, get 6gbs of ram ( 3 sticks x2 gb each for tre channel) and a 5770

1TB is way overkill, 500gbs is more than enough.

This is the case I use: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133056

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Permalink Reply by Mad Max on November 7, 2010 at 6:24pm

You'd be surprised how fast 500GB goes these days. I have about 50GB left on my 500GB drive and that's only because I don't put any more on there for swap files and stuff. I have a 2TB drive too that's half full, granted half of that half (so erm, quarter lol) is a backup of the other drive. Storage is cheap these days, you're future proofing yourself for longer with a larger drive.

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Permalink Reply by DarthV3gan on November 8, 2010 at 12:06am

I found 1TB for $75 where the 500gb costs about $50, so the difference is pretty huge in terms of memory.

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Permalink Reply by DTM on November 10, 2010 at 6:44pm

Depends on who you are and what you do. I've been computing since 1992, everything I have fits on 75 GB, including my FPS games. : )

Everyone has their own needs, buy accordingly.

The link to the MoBo didn't work, but if it has on board sound I'm with A.V., a sound card really isn't needed these days because onboard sound has gotten pretty sophisticated.

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Permalink Reply by implying implications on November 6, 2010 at 11:46pm

my only suggestion, dont buy from best buy.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161348&...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171054

those are a few suggestions

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Permalink Reply by DTM on November 10, 2010 at 6:45pm

I would agree with that.

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Permalink Reply by Grant Mellor on November 10, 2010 at 10:22pm

Newegg ftw.

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Permalink Reply by Dustin Tyson on November 10, 2010 at 12:40am

Maybe my math is off but unless you have a wholesale account with bb or you are an employee that gets a discount..you're better off hitting up newegg.com. and besides..you're forgetting the BEST upgrade of all...a well researched " SSD " with a fresh install of win 7 (which i see you already have that part in mind.cudos) on it and all the bios and expert recommended tweaks done in proper order. all that other hardware * except for SOME parts of gaming and allparts of video editing..* dont mean hardly crap if you still have the slow bottle neck that is the spinning disk hard drive.
Remember..when shopping for ssd. LOOK AT 4K RANDOM READ AND WRITE SPEEDS. although some benchmark programs MAY NOT show real accurate details. 4k reads are the MOST influential in HOW the O.S overal runs. from booting, to loading a program. damn near everything. A lot of people get fooled by just those 285 read/ 275 write max seq specs. those specs ONLY truly matter with things like ripping a dvd or blu ray movie to your ssd or hard drive, or just plain copying big file sizes to and from the ssd. LOOK AT ALL benchmarks from all sites.. contact the vendors that construct the ssd you're considering, sleep on it. and THAT way you can make a BETTER buying decision.
ALSO. i have been told by Nick at Mushkin that pretty much RIGHT NOW..the only way to reach those 285/275 speeds or get extremely close is if you install the ssd on an intel achi driver enabled motherboard. he said he could not explain in full detail, but that was the Mushkin ssd QC dept's experience with testing ALL storage sizes of their Callisto line of ssd's. cheers

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Permalink Reply by Grant Mellor on November 10, 2010 at 10:29pm

Drop the sound card, go with a 120GB SSD and at least 500GB storage HDD, up the RAM, don't buy from Best Buy. Coolermaster or Antec case, maybe add a bigger PSU. Everyone has pretty much said it already.

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Permalink Reply by George Burgess on November 11, 2010 at 2:32pm

As DTM said it realy depends on what you want to use the computer for, I woud replace the sound card with more ram.

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Smith on November 11, 2010 at 3:38pm

A few of your links are broken. I honestly HAVE to suggest using Mwave.com, I don't do price comparisons with other sites, but mwave will let you bundle mb cpu and ram and they will assemble/test and ship it assembled and ready to go, but like the others have said, it all depends on what you plan on using the computer for.

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Permalink Reply by Brice Hulse on November 26, 2010 at 5:08pm

I have three suggestions for you:
1) As everyone else is saying, drop the sound card. It's probably not going to be much better than integrated audio.
2) A lot of the Intel motherboards (maybe all) don't allow processor overclocking. If you plan to overclock, don't get the Intel motherboard.
3) Look for a modular power supply. This means that you only plug in the power cables that you need, thus de-cluttering the interior of your case.

Other than that, this looks like a strong system, especially the CPU!

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