Returning after a few months off, looking at a new Rig

[MiRai]

Asus boards are obviously good. I tried both an Asus and a Gigabyte P67 board this time around and I opted for the Asus in
the end.

the gigabyte I recall being a bit more expensive, but didn't seem worth it when talking to store guy.

I originally purchased the Gigabyte UD7 board and then sold it to my roommate so I could get the Asus Maximus IV. You might
think I'm crazy or it was a complete waste but I wanted a board that I could find a chipset watercooling block for and both the
UD7 and Maximus IV have full board water cooling blocks. I am happier with the Maximus IV, though.

Depending on what you do besides multiboxing 16GB may benefit you more but you can definitely wait on the upgrade for
that since you're going 2x4GB instead of 4x2GB... which is good.

that was kinda what I was thinking. I discussed this with the guy. I want to see how my Adobe CS5 handles everything. It sounds like it should be cool, but like you said, I can easily just dump another 2x4GB in if needed.

I use CS5 as well and I like to be able to cram more into my memory for preview for programs such as After Effects. You'll
have to see for yourself if you'll want more RAM after playing around with the new system. Again, easy upgrade.

Slightly puzzled by your choice of an old SATAII SSD when the P67 boards have a minimum of 2 SATAIII ports and if you
can dish out the extra $100 for one, I'd say go for it. Also, I decided to go with two Intel 510's as my choice of SSD and I
will easily recommend them. If you can't swap out the SATAII drive for a SATAIII for whatever reason you're still going to
see lightning speed none-the-less if you're coming from a mechanical drive.

well, glad you question this. After talking with the guy, I wasn't really sold on the SATAIII. I did explain I was going to use it for wow and multiboxing. It seemed like I would see little difference in the SATAII vs SATAIII. Is there really going to be that big of a difference?

Unfortunately, I cannot give you a direct or real life comparison as I only jumped on the SSD bandwagon with this last build
and I just went all out with SATAIII seeing as I used my SATAII ports up on other mechanical and optical drives. As for what
speeds are being reported at I'm guessing you're missing out on about 200MB/sec read and 100-150MB/sec write at most?

To be honest... I think I might agree with the guy at the store about the comparison of the two for what you're doing with it.