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aznguy0028

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i don't think you'll need 8 gigs of ram, overkill for me. but hey, more power to you :D

awesome rig btw...im glad someone did research and found quality parts

enjoy your system :)
 

treyt22

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I was thinking about doing that but raid 0 from what I've read isnt that much of a performance boost and its risky. So I think I would get better performance from the extra 4gb. Correct me if I'm wrong please.
 

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I'll recommend you getting this...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145194
CORSAIR XMS2 DHX 4GB (2 x 2GB) ($75.00 after $30.00 Mail-In-Rebate)

Corsair made their reputation in the enthusiast community as high quality, both in terms of performance and reliability.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150287
XFX PVT98FYDF9 GeForce 9800 GTX(G92) 512MB
($169.99 after $20.00 Mail-In- Rebate

4870 is way oexpensive If you wait couple of month you can get it for $169 When I first got 3870 back in Feb for Crysis, I've paid $279 today they are $129 it's not even 6month yet

Antec Twelve Hundred over Nine Hundred (For future upgrade and wire managment and better cooling)

PC Power & Cooling S61EPS 610W ($89.99 after $20.00 Mail-In-rebate)

The best power supply goes to PC Power & Cooling and Antec

Instead of buying 8GB memory or additional hard drive, why don't you buy games.

-Good Luck-
 
8GB of ram sounded overkill to me also until I saw an article on Tom's hardware that said you could not take full advantage of Vista without 8 GB of ram.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/vista-workshop,1775.html

The reason why per the article:

The benefit of having 8 GB of system memory is that the OS has to access the hard drive far less frequently, making Vista feel much snappier. However, several settings in the BIOS and the operating system need to be changed in order for the system to be able to take advantage of that much memory.
There is a demonstrated need for 8GBs but you should have a totally perfect experience with 4GBs. You can always upgrade later.