General Discussion

I plan on building a new desktop around the beginning of June and this is pretty much what I have settled on. Any comments or recommendations are greatly appreciated.

Some weak points for this build would be the power supply (if I was actually running SLI), the RAM is not the greatest, and the video card (I am not planning to run SLI until later). - TIA!

if you're not going to take advantage of SLI any time, get an x38 chipset instead of the 780.  The Intel based motherboards are much better than the nVidia.

aside from that, I got nothing

Originally posted by Rayx0r

if you're not going to take advantage of SLI any time, get an x38 chipset instead of the 780.  The Intel based motherboards are much better than the nVidia.

aside from that, I got nothing

X38 does not support SLI, it supports Crossfire. Thats bad advice.

Originally posted by Bladeinhand

Originally posted by Rayx0r

if you're not going to take advantage of SLI any time, get an x38 chipset instead of the 780.  The Intel based motherboards are much better than the nVidia.

aside from that, I got nothing

X38 does not support SLI, it supports Crossfire. Thats bad advice.

Very true Bladeinhand, also I do plan on going SLI in the future so when it comes to that time where I want to do so I will end up buying another 8800GT and upgrade my PSU at the same time.

After looking at the reviews I really have not heard anything bad about the 780i boards and I think it compliments the E8400 nicely. Cant wait to order the parts, and then maybe, just maybe try out AoC. Guess I will check the reviews after the 20th.

Originally posted by Bladeinhand

Originally posted by Rayx0r

if you're not going to take advantage of SLI any time, get an x38 chipset instead of the 780.  The Intel based motherboards are much better than the nVidia.

aside from that, I got nothing

X38 does not support SLI, it supports Crossfire. Thats bad advice.

how much you have too spend? Im  buying my next pc from www.cyberpower , com  They have some good systems an cheap

If you can wait a few more months, hold on for Nehalem (Bloomfield). The proc improvements will be significant, and you could take advantage of Nvidia/ATI's new cards coming out this summer.

Originally posted by masterjedi

how much you have too spend? Im  buying my next pc from www.cyberpower , com  They have some good systems an cheap

I have checked the cyberpower pre-builts and they are not half bad but for something with comparable specs it is more expensive than building it myself. Total cost for this is right around $1100.

I have not heard much about the Nehalem cpu's coming out this year but for the money the E8400 is a stout little processor, I have heard that people have been OC'ing them to 4ghz plus with ease. Also, about the new Nvidia Cards coming out this summer, EVGA has an awesome step up program which would allow me to upgrade within 90 days of the purchase if I remember right.

Anyone know of any hiccups/issues I might have with this hardware together?

altho it gets mixed reviews i love my 780i board, they take a little getting use to and it would probably be worth it to you to get better memory so you can take advantage of the board's and the cpu's overclocking potential.

i'm not real crazy about that cooler's renention clips. personally i prefer something with a backplate to help disperse some of weight that these new supercoolers have off of the cpu socket.

also i'd either look at getting an high performance exhaust fan for the back exhaust or cut a blow hole onto the top and add another exhaust.

*edit* 

another thing to consider.. 650 gig is an awful lot of storage space. i'd consider getting a smaller primary drive and adding a slave/backup drive of either the same size or even a little larger, this will help keep trash off your primary and make reformats and/or rebuilds a breeze. i try to keep my primary drive down to about 75gig of whatnot before i start archiving stuff onto my slave.

this is pretty picky stuff and it looks like you're on your way to a pretty solid build.

have fun with it