Looks good! I'm totally jealous and can't wait for the day when I take the dive and upgrade components/build a new PC from scratch.
I'm by no means an expert. Some of the guys here are. UOMaddogg knows his stuff that's for damn sure. I'm going to school right now to learn how to Geek like the Jedi Masters we have here on ScriptUO.
I did just finished up my A+ Hardware a few weeks ago so I will comment (Yes I got an A
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Why go with 4 4GB DIMMS rather than 2 8GBS in case you want to upgrade later. Your board will hold up to 32MB RAM depending on what your OS will support. Seems like the 8GB DIMMS have just recenlty started hitting the market which is why the cost is higher...almost double.
I'm running 3.5 GB RAM and can do most things I need to do. 16MB is a hell of a lot. 32MB is probably overkill but it be nice to be able to max out the board later on down the line should you choose to do so.
I've never had my own PC with more than 4 MB of RAM let alone 16MB and 32MB so I can't tell you about the performance boost you'd get.
I do know right now I'm not happy with 3.5M. Lots of slowdown when I'm running multiple applications.
Congratulations. I envy you and can't wait for the day when I get to do what your doing. Fun Fun Fun!
One more thought...say you did buy the 2 8GBs now and decide after 2 years you want to max the motherboard to 32MB it could very well be by that time the price has dropped on the 8GB DIMMs and your able to buy all 32MB (4 8GBS) at the price your paying now for the 16MBs (4 4GBS). Looking at it from that perspective it doesn't seem worth it to get the 8GBs unless money is no object. Again this is strictly conjecture on my part.
According to Wiki PC Hardware "Prices decrease 50% every two years" on most hardware I think SSD is the exception. I don't know why they don't say 25% a year but that's the qoute.
Here's one more thought and this could be a fools errand. What about a board that supports PCIe 3.0 so your board is ready for the future. The downside of that is there aren't any graphics card on the market that support PCIe 3.0.
Oh man...now you got me looking at Newegg and Tigers direct. My mouth is watering and I'm breaking out in sweats on my forehead.
I could go on all day. Ulimaltey you have to decide on a budget and stay with it and figure out how long your expecting the PC to last.
Buying top of the line stuff is probably not the best value for your dollar but that board you have isn't cheap which is why I curious as to what the PCIe 3.O Mobo's are going for. Looks like there 30%-40% more.
