Samione said:Yeah don't worry i'm waiting, and the reason for the PSU is future proofing, as is the DDR3/DDR2 mobo, still overkill though?
I'll be using vista 64bit home premium, and yeah that's not good about the audigy+vista thing could someone clear that up for me? Also what cooler would you recommend for best cooling a quad then?Green_Giant said:I'm a complete noob, so take all this with a pinch of salt... but;
What OS will you be using? No need for 4Gb of RAM if you're only using a 32bit OS.
Would go for a different mouse myself, but that's a very personal thing.
Again, depends on your OS, but wasn't there something about Audigys not working with Vista? Someone better informed than I will clear that up for you.
Never heard of that cooler. Doesn't mean it's not good, but personally I'd go for something else, maybe from Noctua or Scythe.
PSU is a little more than is needed.
Yeah, master for Apps, secondary for storage i'll be doing a lot of CAD and design stuff so I want all my work on a secondary drive seperate from the OS and applications. Thanks for the heads up on the DVD drives aswell.stickroad said:Any reason for two different Hard Drives?
I haven't heard much about that cooler so cant really comment but i would recommend this one:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-002-NC
As for the DVD Drives go for SATA ones, just makes cable management that much easier and you can cancel the IDE controller on the mobo which will help with boot up times a little.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-084-SA&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=349
Samione said:I googled it and there seems to be some sort of issue, but it's still pretty cloudy as to what it is and what cards are effected.
Jaffa_Cake said:How many USB slots do you need? I think you will get 10 with that PCI card.
Don't like that case much - Akasa Eclipse will solve that problem http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-005-AK
RAM will not overclock if your planning on that (guessing you are from the cooler).
Will edit with new spec just doing now.
crazyDAJT said:If its cad you are wanting to do you want lots of Ram, and speed isn't really important dell Precision workstations (which are regarded as the best) use 667MHz ram.
Also that's graphics cad is not really appropriate, you really want to look at openGL, they cost about 3 times as much as gaming graphics cards but they will unlock a lot of openGL only functions in CAD programs. What program are you using??
it all seams overkill a solidworks only recommends a maximum of 6GB of ram for example, is the DDR3 really important? By the time you want to make the leap you will get a new motherboard, as you will want 4 DDR3 slots.
Overclocking isn't relay important with cad programmes, its all about stability.
How important is you work??? look at a raid 1 or raid 5 set-up will cost a bit more but will save you date for a disc crash, this MB supports it. I would personally go with Seagate Barracuda drives for storage.