Buying a new computer

What brand RAM? If you're not a geek, what the fuck do you need a 560 Ti for? If you're going AMD, get a ATI card. Depending on how much gaming you do, a 5770 would be sufficient. That way, you can crossfire later if you want. As far as hard drives go, get a smallish SSD and a 1tb Samsung Sinpoint F3 instead of that slow green one you picked out.Find a motherboard that has SATA 6gb/s instead of SATA 3gb/s, and AM3+ to leave yourself open to upgrade to Bulldozer (the new AMD chip that will soon be released).

Oh, and what about a power supply? I recommend a Corsair TX series. Wattage is up to you, but I'd go at least 500 watts.

If you're just going single card, then getting Nvidia is fine. However, if you plan on ever going Crossfire or SLI, you have to be careful and match your motherboard and shit. For instance: I have an AMD chip, but my board only supports SLI (SLI is the Nvidia dual GPU set-up, Crossfire is ATI's). The board you picked out supports Crossfire. You can go to a site called GPU review where you can compare video card performance. Then get a Western Digital Caviar Black, not the green.

If they did do this, it would just be an example of them going above and beyond their customer service. It is up to you to match components properly. However, most good companies will cut you some slack (Newegg). You are buying components as a builder, therefor it is up to you to have the knowhow.

This is not entirely true, and actually is a false rumor based on the fact that Nvidia markets for Intel and bases there products on Intel, with AMD being a (relatively) late comer to the CPU game. There is absolutely nothing wrong with running a single card and any board you want, AMD or Nvidia. The ONLY limitations you run into is when you go SLI/ Crossfire. However, more and more chipsets are coming out that can support both SLI and Crossfire both. It's just a matter of checking the chipset. Like I said, my AMD board has an Nvidia chipset and only supports SLI, but I have a Radeon HD 5770 with no issue.

That is a completely different story then lol. I thought you were buying the parts independently and building from scratch. Forgive my misunderstanding.

The only reason to get 8gb is because 2x4gb is relatively cheap. The only time when 4gb is not enough is if you do photo/video editing editing or something of the sort. No games (as of yet) even need more than 4.That said, 8gb is cheap enough to make it silly NOT to get it.

Any SSD smokes the pants off of a Raptor and is WAAYYY cheaper when considering gb/$ ratio. Minor correction: 7200 RPM If you skimp on the PSU, don't complain when ALL your parts burn up because it fried. Onboard graphics is dependent on the motherboard, not CPU. Oh my my my....NO! CAS is far more important than bandwidth. And it's 1600, not 1666. What the hell? Please don't.I really apologize if this came off rude, but you are not exactly giving the best advice here. Some of it is actually bad advice.Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.

Here:i5 Sandy Bridge: $190Crucial M4 60gb SSD: $115Spinpoint F3 1tb: $60Kingston HyperX 2x4gb: $49Gigabyte GA-Z68p: $110GeForce GTX 560Ti: $240Cooler Master Storm Scout: $80Corsair CX600: $70This set up will rock ANY game at max. Total shipped from Newegg: $923.18. I can email you the cart if you want.Edited by hooah212002, : forgot to add PSU

Long enough. You will be in the market for a new drive LOOOONNNNGGGG before the NAND wears out. Your argument had weight 4 years ago when SSD's first came on scene, but not today. WHAT? Surely you jest. WD Raptors are the ONLY mechanical hard drive that can even hold a candle to SSD's and even then, SSD's smoke 'em. We are talking a difference of 14ms access time for a Raptor to <0.1ms for SSD's, not to mention 4k random read/write speeds. Not in five years you won't. Yea, I know. But you still need a motherboard with onboard graphics. And a mobo with a crappy onboard graphics chip vs. one with a good one......you tell me. Tell me: what good does having a big ass hole in your case do? Now, if you said "cut a hole and put a fan and fan cover in it", I wouldn't have said shit. You can't just randomly cut holes in your case without factoring in airflow.Look crash: I am an overclocker and case modder. This is my hobby.Put it this way: the current MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of SSD's on the market is AT LEAST 1.2 million hours. Most are more like 2 million. Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.

I am well aware that an i7 outperforms an i5. However, not by enough to warrant the extra 100 bucks. Remember: I had to keep his build under $1k? Besides, the overclockability of Sandy Bridge i5's makes it a moot point. To each his own. I've owned numberous gigabyte boards with no issue.Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.

Ok, I have no intention of getting into a pissing contest so I apologize for my brashness. This is a subject that does better when people share knowledge as opposed to "I am smarter than you" so I apologize for acting that way.

Actually, as far as the gaming/enthusiast community is concerned, they are. Yes, there are small SSD's. There are also large capacity ones, as well..... For your average home user who does nothing but surf the web, yea. But Stile said he had a $1000 budget..... that tells me he wants a nice rig. SSD's=nice rig. Nope. Never said that. I just think they should be a part of a high-ish end build. Where did you get that chart? Which "32gb Crucial"? Was it testing sequential write, 4k random? What? I'll do some benches myself and compare my Spinpoint F3's in RAID0 and my Crucial M4. I guarantee that chart is OLD. I learned something new today. Thanks. I don't follow Intel at all. I'm an AMD guy lol.Your pic didn't work...

Besides that, SSD's are being used for OS drives, so you want to look at anything BUT sequential. Random access and seek times are what count, my friend. Sequential times are for the transfer of large files.My SSD (Crucial M4 64gb running at SATAII speeds) Now my 1tb Spinpoint F3's in RAID0 with 128k stripe. So we see that the ONLY area where a mechanical could possibly have an advantage is in sequential WRITE, and that is with a RAID) array. But, again, when talking about an OS drive, sequential means dick.Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.

I'll even go one further. Here is my backup hard drive. A 1tb Seagate Barracuda 7200.12. So...and SSD womps the shit out of a single mechanical any day of the week. It's pretty safe to do a 1-1 comparison of my RAID array to a raptor, so for the price of a raptor, an SSD is still the way to go for a main drive.Of course, this is all under the guise that we give a shit about boot times and how fast our browser opens up lol. Do I need a RAID array? HELL NO! But I like it and I like to futz around with this shit.Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.