Yes. A 1200W PSU will handle a hefty overclock on a modern CPU and triple SLI using top end video cards.
I'm going to guess that your current system uses maybe 650W at most.
No, but I wouldn't recommend buying the equipment you listed (see below). RAM doesn't usually get hot
unless you overclock the shit out of it and/or pump a ton of voltage into it.
If we're talking price:performance ratio then, yes.
Intel 2600K @ $325 or Intel 2500K @ $230
$200 1155 Motherboard (ASUS, Gigabyte, EVGA)
$150 16GB RAM 1.5V (Corsair, G.Skill, etc.)
The 1366 chipset is old news at this point and about to be completely obsolete now that X79 has launched
and Ivy Bridge is coming out later this year.
As it stands, the answer to that is up to your budget. I will always recommend an SSD (64GB or more) if
you can afford it.
If the motherboard you buy has SATAII or SATAIII (preferred) ports it'll work just fine.
Yep.
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