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Building first new computer in 4 years

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JJacob

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Here is my newegg wish list for my new 939. I am thinking about waiting on it until 6800 ultra drops in price and a PCI express flavor comes out. I intend to do lots of PVR on this maching and some gaming but mostly office and web browsing for work. Want to be able to do all at once.

Am curious if I have everything I have here I need for inside the case. I didn't realize for example that I needed to buy these SATA cables until someone mentioned it. Is there anything else I need. Any changes anyone would suggest? I am mostly concerned about the ram, is it the ram I should be getting? I will probably not overclock so don't know if I need ram this good.

Should I consider going FX instead or maybe dual raptors instead of these harddisks? Thanks everyone in advance.

http://secure.newegg.com/app/WishR.asp?ID=870861
 
Certainly is a nice system.

Your Motherboard should come with the SATA cables, so I don't think you need to buy those separately.

Since you seem to have a high budget, I would recommend going to a WD Raptor HDD. Don't know how much space you are looking for, but maybe you could do something like put your OS and apps on the Raptor, and then you data on the slower but larger drive. Or you could get multiple Raptor HDD's, but that might get expensive.

Was there a reason you went with the WiFi MB from Asus? If you don't need the wifi, you might look @ this similar mobo (looks like it only supports 2X SATA HDD though):
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-181&depa=1

I'd probably go to a lower priced RAM, expecially since you don't plan on overclocking, but maybe that's not an issue for you. Something like this might work:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-145-440&depa=1

(then again, I'd also go with the 3500+ and a 6800 GT, but that's because I find my sweet spot is in the upper midrange components)

If you are considering an FX, then it sounds like you might be happier with the higher end stuff you originally picked out.

-D'oh!
 
Well I see your point with the Raptor. What would be a better idea, the 2 harddrives i have in raid 0 or maybe 1 raptor and 1 massive storage drive. Would one massive 250 gig be fast enough for PVR?
 
I'm a big believer in RAID 1, myself. I just know myself well enough to know that I'll never back up my 160 GB drive. Even if I wanted to, who has the time to sit around for hours swapping DVD-RWs out. And the cost of a high-capacity tape drive and media is just outrageous - more than the cost of an extra disk drive. Mine paid for itself last week when one of my 160 GB drives died. I put in a new 160 GB drive, rebuilt the array and went on. (It still takes about 2-3 hours to rebuild the drive, but it's unattended and beats reloading Windows any day.)
 
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