k1114 said:
I also disagree with g-unit. The hd3000 can play cod 4 on med.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-3000.379... And it can handle photoshop just fine, 4k images with 100 layers?; easy, as long as you got the ram. PS its mostly cpu+ram.
The igpu "steals" ram to use as it's vram and this allocated amount cannot be used by the system. Shared ram is different in that it can be dynamically used between the igpu and system. Even with a dedicated gpu you will have shared ram.
There are many mobos that have all those features from the low priced asrock extreme3, up to the higher priced asus z68-v-pro, and many in between such as the gigabyte xp-ud3 or 4, asus z68-v, asrock extreme4, etc. USB3 and sata3 are standard on z68 (sata 6 isn't even out let alone 4 and 5, some refer to sata3 as sata 6Gb/s). PCIE 3.0 is really not necessary, the i7 is plenty of power and you'll probably want a whole new pc instead of an IB upgrade. Any z68 mobo with 4 ram slots supports 32gb and pretty much every z68 has 4 slots.
Personally I would say to put more money in a better psu than a $200 mobo. I'm guessing you want 600w for future sli but that is only enough for 450 sli. But I wouldn't recommend it as the low end cards sli suffer from micro stuttering so a single card would be better.
Acer has the lowest priced monitors on newegg that are good quality. Asus monitors also have good quality in the lower price range.
thanks for the help. I can understand about shared memory now. You are right about investing more in psu. I will do that . Since I am buying the i7 2600k cpu . And I mainly want to overclock the cpu , if possible gpu,( I but don't really need it because I don't game that often. ).I don't want to buy now a gpu for i7 2600k.
For now , my requirement is to just make a rig running , in which the parts I don't need are : Cabinet + PSU + keyboard + mouse(I do have an old psu , when I switch to sli, I will udate my psu)
For storage, I will basically use my WD 2 TB external HDD.
My budget is around 1100$,
in which the parts needed are cpu+ mobo+ ram+ HDD+DVDRAM+ monitor .
thanks