After Ualaa mentioned that about the games, I decided to switch to Professional instead. I didn't know that you couldn't run them on the Home edition. I've got several old games I still can't play on my laptop I'd like to go back and replay also as a breakaway from all of these. I didn't know that about the limit on ram tho, thank you for letting me know.
Ok, thoughts on this cpu, mobo, and ram:
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115072
Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131792
Ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820233197
Changed the OS to Win7 Prof also and total, the price difference will only increase by about $30 or so, but I'm guessing performance would be better on gaming with this setup. I can due without video recording or streaming, I'm just sick of being left in the wind when it comes to enjoying video games with all the settings up on high and/or maxed out and still get damn good framerates.
How about the PSU tho, I know Antec has a good record, but would the wattage on that be enough for this setup?
When you plug in an HDMI cable you deactivate one of the DVI ports. The only nVidia cards that can run 3 monitorsOriginally Posted by Ualaa
are dual-GPU cards.
The system looks fine as is and you should update your original post to reflect your new choices or people might
reply to (or view) this thread looking at the old 1366 system and be confused. If you can afford an i7 2600 I would
grab that instead because in my tests (the sticky at the top of this forum), Hyper-Threading is shown to benefit
multiboxing. As for the PSU, it looks fine as well and JonnyGuru gave its big brother (the 900W model) a great review.
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Does it make a difference if I choose the 2600 over the 2600K? I've never really explored overclocking and not sure if I ever will. If I get the 2600 I found by the 4th, I can save around $40.
No, you don't need to overclock if you don't want to. The CPU will intelligently overclock itself using its built in Turbo Boost
but, I wouldn't consider that a real overclock because it dynamically changes based on CPU temperatures. If you're going
to use the Intel fan that comes boxed with the CPU I almost wouldn't recommend overclocking because, when you
overclock you generate more heat and that Intel cooler doesn't always handle it very well (that's where an aftermarket
cooler comes into play).
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