Jakery94

the Asus SABERTOOTH P67 B3 is a 32GB max ram, 2nd gen core ix range, and SLI or crossfire ready. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131702&cm_re=SABERTOOTH_P67-_-13-131-702-_-Product it's the one i'm getting, but the looks might throw you off :/

this would be mint to set up! must have some sought of hak5 verification process though. steganography in the banner hahaha I am happy to help out if Remotesh or anyone else is up too it!

scratch that, your mobo is SATA2, and your ram is made specifically for P67 mobo's, but you have an x58. a compatible p67 mobo will allow 2600k and much more, such as sata3 and usb3.0 for a similar price, the motherboard looks okay, but in the long run...

Hey, consider the newer i7 2600k maybe? much more overclock-ability there but then your motherboard would need to change, so up to you, but they are also much more efficient. As much as the two 570's will outperform one 580, one 580 will not hold you back at all, it is the roughly same price as two 570's, probably less, and will allow you to upgrade to a beast 580 sli later on when it's needed, or can be afforded. So consider adaptability. can't complain about the ram, and also, if you can spare the money, maybe consider a small SSD for OS, and applications, and the 1TB or 2TB for data. The SSD will show unreal performance, and considering you have a SATA3 6gb/s mobo, consider taking advantage of that. Although that is always an upgrade path later on when it is more affordable for you. But boot time and such will improve drastically. So yeh, remember to check compatibility and looking good.

arghh, the PSU's are really expensive though :( but i see where you are coming from, i will look into it. personally, i don't see the need for anything other than home premium, i have both pro and home currently, and can't tell the difference. also i have an external HDD for movies and music and suck, so 1TB will be enough, if not, exapansion is super easy later on and i do have 8GB, the max is 24GB

I decided to go with a DVD/CD drive, sometimes you get to sucked in when going through parts :P I have a ps3 and I don't even use DVD/CD's for linux distros anymore, let alone BD's so thanks for that. I'll also have a look at other heat-sinks, if you have any you would recommend that would be great, but I'll look into it and I don't think that I will be using any applications (apart from possibly virtualisation?) that will utilize 8 threads, and the i5 is more bang for buck, but if i can spare the money, i will get the i7.

thanks for the reply, reason for the i5 was that the difference between the 2500k and the 2600k is minimal, 2mb cache, hyperthreading, and .2 ghz is not enough reason for $100+, and i can still overclock the cpu to well over 4, into 5 the ghz. I shall check the ram compatibility, although I think it should be fine as it included support for 1155 cpu's, but I will double check that. i'll look into the HDD, if I can remove some costs somewhere else, i will upgrade it, but with the SSD that I am still interested in, speed shouldn't be a concern, unless copying large files to and from it, which i'm not too worried about. and do you really reckon that the heatsink is too big? the motherboard i chose looks pretty damn sturdy to me. and the reason why i went for a combo drive was that the price difference between that and a dvd only drive is pretty small, so might as well. But thanks for the advice, cheers.

Hey Guys, Building a new computer very very soon, which is all exciting, and i would love some advice from you guys, the parts list is as follows: OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD $289.00 LG CH10LS20 10X Blu-ray DVD Combo Drive $85.00 ASUS Sabertooth P67 Motherboard B3 $239.00 Western Digital Green 1TB WD10EARX $59.00 HDMI v1.4 Male to Male Cable 5m with HEAC $19.00 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit with SP1 OEM $105.00 CoolerMaster HAF 932 Advanced $179.00 CoolerMaster eXtreme Power Plus 700W $89.00 Thermaltake SpinQ VT CPU Cooler $62.00 ASUS GeForce GTX 580 DirectCU II $549.00 G.Skill Ripjaws X F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL (2x4GB) DDR3 $89.00 BenQ XL2410T 23.6 Inch Widescreen LED Monitor 120Hz $445.00 Intel Core i5 2500K $225 Total = $2434.00 So that is basically max of the budget, and all prices are Australian, from an Australian website pccasegear.com Any changes? recommendations? Advice? Thanks Guys cheers.