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zamler · 08-14-2012, 04:25 PM

I am not up to date on hardware as much as I used to be (on the software side of things now) but a few thoughts. You don't need 32 gigs of RAM, you will not be able to utilize it, unless you are using some serious professional software. Don't get any motherboard with active cooling, the fans fail at an alarming rate. Do you really need a Blu Ray drive? You can spend half the price on the processor and I doubt you would ever notice the difference.

A discrete sound card only matters if you are using the analog outputs, otherwise they won't help you at all.

edit - water cooling is not necessary anymore IMO, air cooling tech is so good that it rivals liquid solutions. It's great if you want to push your components to the absolute limit, but otherwise skip it. My 2 cents.

08-14-2012, 04:25 PM	#2
zamler Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Feb 2008 Exp:	I am not up to date on hardware as much as I used to be (on the software side of things now) but a few thoughts. You don't need 32 gigs of RAM, you will not be able to utilize it, unless you are using some serious professional software. Don't get any motherboard with active cooling, the fans fail at an alarming rate. Do you really need a Blu Ray drive? You can spend half the price on the processor and I doubt you would ever notice the difference. A discrete sound card only matters if you are using the analog outputs, otherwise they won't help you at all. edit - water cooling is not necessary anymore IMO, air cooling tech is so good that it rivals liquid solutions. It's great if you want to push your components to the absolute limit, but otherwise skip it. My 2 cents. Last edited by zamler; 08-14-2012 at 04:28 PM.