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Well first off I have never built one before, but I know quite a bit about comps so I think it should be fairly easy. I am doing all of my ordering from newegg.com but I would like to have people look over this build just to make sure i'm not missing somthing thanks!



Intel BOXDP55KG LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813121385


Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product


CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W ATX12V 2.2 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817139009


LG Black 8X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 40X CD-ROM SATA Internal Combo LG Blu-ray Reader & 16X LightScribe DVD±R DVD Burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product


COOLER MASTER Intel Core i7 compatible V8 RR-UV8-XBU1-GP 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product


XFX HD-587A-ZNF9 Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress XT) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card w/ATI Eyefinity
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product


CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMX8GX3M4A1600C9
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820145261


Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product


Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136320

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I am planning on putting windows 7 in it.

And as far as the hard drives I am thinking about getting 4 of them (as far as I can tell the mother board will support it) and having two of them paired so it would write faster and the other two mirroring the first two so I can protect my data from crashes.

Anyways your thoughts would be great thanks!
 
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First off, none of your links work :ouch:

What will this PC be used for?

You'd be better off with the I7 920 and overclocking it to I7 950 speeds and beyond, would cost a lot less too. Also, don't get an Intel mobo, Asus/Gigabyte or even MSI would be better.

1366 mobo's have a triple channel memory controller so it will work best with either 6GB or 12GB. You probably won't need 12 so stick to 6.

A 750W PSU will be enough even with two 5870's running on crossfire.

The Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB is faster and I think it's cheaper too.



 
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Build missed ONE MAJOR issue!! The motherboard the OP listed is for the Socket 1156 and the CPU is for the Socket 1366... which won't work together!!!!

I recommend purchasing either the i7 860 and the ASUS EVO motherboard or the I7 920 and the ASUS P6TD motherboard.
 
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You haven't told us what you're gonna use the PC for. Unless your gonna do a lot of heavy multi-tasking (and I mean a lot), 12GB is way overkill. You'd be better off with 6GB of faster RAM and preferably with tighter timings.
 
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I'll be using the computer for my "every day stuff"

Have World of warcraft running, simcity4 running, photoshop, probably 4 web pages with multi tabs. virus scanner in the background + whatever downloads/updates I want to do.


I chose the 12 gig because it was actually cheaper then the 8 I original figured in. Price is really no object, but I would like a fast system.
 
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6GB will be plenty. I could do all that with my current system which has 4GB RAM :lol:

The one obsidian suggested looks good.
 
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The problem with the system/deal obsidian suggested is its only 2.66GHz. And I don't want to do any OC.
 
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..Hmmm well my father in law just bought a Dell XPS 3.0Ghz (granted its not i7 tech) and it has 4 gigs of ram 1TB hard drive...and to be honest the thing is slow as heck.

Takes a fair amount of time to load. and struggles with newer games (SC4 with graphics on full, crysis with graphics low-meduim)

Sooo... yeah is the i7 really that much better?
 
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Having problems with games would likely be a GPU issue, not a CPU issue. Load time is possibly an HDD issue.

Yes a 2.66 i7 will outperform a 3GHz AMD CPU. An i7 will overclock to possibly over 4GHz on a good $30-45 cpu heatsink/fan so why would you not get that free performance boost, especially with that massive overkill of a power supply?

If I am not mistaken, the Caviar Black 500MB runs two 250MB platters which makes it a slower hard drive than the Samsung F3 with a single 500MB platter or even the Caviar black 640 with two 320MB platters. The combination of 4 drives you are talking about is called Raid 10.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID-10#RAID_10_.28RAID_1.2B0.29
 
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dndhatcher,

I beleive you mean GB when talking about the HD? And thank you for explaining the diffrence from teh samsung and the WD HD.

And as far as the overclocking, honestly? I wouldn't want to void the manufature warrenty, and I dont' feel I know enough to start OC.

I'll probably build this first machine to learn my way around, and then in a couple years worry about OC and all of that.
 
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So after reading through the WIKI about raids (which was very informative, thanks!) How difficult is it to do what I want witht he harddrives?
 
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I have never done raid, though most motherboards now have raid capability. There isnt enough speed increase in gaming to make it worthwhile to me.

Yeah I meant GB, thanks.

Does overclocking without increasing the voltage void the warranty? The intel i series is easy to overclock, some of the motherboards will even do it for you. I doubt many people building their own machine would buy one without getting a decent aftermarket cooler and at least overclocking up until it needs a voltage increase. There are some guides and advice in the overclocking forum. Do get your system up and running stable for a week before you start playing with overclocking, then just take it slow and bump up small steps.
 
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