First build, suggestions and help please.

[Sporego]

Your Mobo seems overkill the USB 3.0 will be nice, but you dont need much of anything else unless you plan on having a million input devices and overclocking on a higher level. You could save money there. And then maybe kick your 6 gigs up to 8. Also, why not pay the extra 15 dollars and get the 950? Check out this ram too... 2 kits GSKILL.

Oh yeah, I always recommend the Corsiar H50 for cooling your psu. Cheap and amazing, it also is a million times easier if you install it while you do your build instead of later. Then you have to take everything out to mount the bracket..

Erm triple channel3,6,9,12,24,

 

[RHoptowit]

thanks for all the suggestions and help.

updated the wish list. changed the power supply to a cheaper one, got rid of the case cuz im thinking an antec from best buy will do just fine.

one more thing i was juggling around in my head was SLIing right off the bat with two HD 5770 instead of getting the HD 5870. Advice on this?

 

[Sporego]

5870 gives you more options in the futere

 

[RHoptowit]

i was looking at the specs for the motherboard i choose and trying to find out if it supports RAID 1+0. it says it can support 0+1 but i am not sure. anyone can help me out here?

 

[Sporego]

I forgot but it was the north or south bridge its like the integrated GPU on a board but its a integrated raid card

Someone back me up i think its the Intel IcH1oR or something

edit: Intel ICH10R

 

[RHoptowit]

so i emailed evga and this was their response about the RAID issue.

"It can support it on the standard Intel controller which are the black ports, but the SATA 6 can only do Raid 0 or 1. Please let me know if I can be of any additional assistance."

for anyone who may have been wondering.

 

[RHoptowit]

it is a bitter-sweet moment for me right now, just ordered the parts.

 

[RHoptowit]

i have a 'what would you do', situation on my hands here.

the CPU cooler i got extends over my RAM slots and due to that, the RAM i got blocks one of the CPU cooler's fan from sitting how it is suppose to. i have two solutions to this issue, one is to remove the heat sinks that are on the RAM, or just move the CPU cooler's fan up a little so that it is sticking out a bit over the top of the heat sinks.

 

[Remeniz]

i have a 'what would you do', situation on my hands here.

the CPU cooler i got extends over my RAM slots and due to that, the RAM i got blocks one of the CPU cooler's fan from sitting how it is suppose to. i have two solutions to this issue, one is to remove the heat sinks that are on the RAM, or just move the CPU cooler's fan up a little so that it is sticking out a bit over the top of the heat sinks.

Do the latter and slide the fan up a little so it sits above the RAM.

 

[RHoptowit]

^sounds good, thanks for chiming in.