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Originally Posted by zamler
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.
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Thanks for the feedback, and ya I figured 32gb ram was over kill (and easy to change later if it for some unforeseen reason became a bottle neck.)
I'm not sure I know what active cooling on a MoBo is? I don't see anything on the asus I linked that refers to it... So I think I'm good?
As for the BluRay and processor - I may not *need* them at the moment, but I'm okay with that. 1-3 years down the line I'm sure I'll be happy I have them.
I talked to a guy at memory express after posting and he suggested a different Hard Drive solution, basically instead of the Hybrid I had listed just get 4 of the 1.5TB drives storage drives and put them in a "Raid 10" configuration. So it will be 3TB of storage, redundant and 2 times as fast - then I'm overall faster on average instead of just faster for the things the hybrid decides to cache and slow for all else... he made sense to me. I didn't/don't know raid well enough to solution it really... but if it can be done I think that's more what I am looking for.
He also said he figured the
intel SSD drive thats 480GB would work just as well as the one I wanted from NewEgg as my main. Gonna go look for reviews on it tonight.
Again thanks, I had the same feeling about water cooling, but good to hear someone else confirm that belief.