Building a Computer, Recommendations?

[Cronky]

I went far overkill with the RAM since it didn't cost too much more. I figured if 8GB was the minimum I should get, and 32 was the max, then 16 was a nice in between. :P

[AgentX_003]

I went far overkill with the RAM since it didn't cost too much more. I figured if 8GB was the minimum I should get and 32 was the max, then 16 was a nice in between. :P

I have no way of telling you personally but, seriously Biostar ?! , they are the worst company for motherboards.

[knooger]

You are wrong Agent, actually they are good. Same with Asrock nowadays :)
Ivy Bridge nice! :> If you will not use all your ram you can always make some RamDisks :D and put into them cache etc.

@nubishdubishbone
EVGA is very good, nice warranty and quality of products but it's so expensive. I'm happy owner of their GTX285. :D
In my opinion SLI is overrated - twice more heat, twice more power needed and many games/apps don't support it that good as we would like them to do.

[Cronky]

I went far overkill with the RAM since it didn't cost too much more. I figured if 8GB was the minimum I should get and 32 was the max, then 16 was a nice in between. :P

I have no way of telling you personally but, seriously Biostar ?! , they are the worst company for motherboards.

After looking around at a bunch of boards on Newegg, that board I picked had the most features (Ivy Bridge/PCI-E3.0 capable, Front panel USB 3.0 and easily able to OC apparently in case I get curious) for the most reasonable point. Not too spendy, but not too cheap. I'll know though that if I have a problem with it then I'll have to remember that I get what I paid for.

You are wrong Agent, actually they are good. Same with Asrock nowadays :)
Ivy Bridge nice! :> If you will not use all your ram you can always make some RamDisks :D and put into them cache etc.

Glad to hear at least one person say I didn't make a terrible decision. So far I'm 1-1! ;)

Considering that the 3570k was only 20 dollars more than the 2500k, but actually activated all those features listed above, it seemed like a good choice. Though after hours of reading it still seems like the 2500k is the better choice in some respects. Heat sounds like it's worse on the 3570k if I try to OC. Also there seems to be no Hyper Threading on the 3570k...

Comparing it to my previous computer rather than the potential of newer configurations is what I'm focusing on though. In that respect the stuff I picked is going to whoop it's ass. Hopefully it'll also last me just as long as my last one did also. At the very least it seems more upgrade friendly than my previous setup.

[RaDRoacH]

i know that you can go over 32 GB of ram... but why you need all this ram?

[Cronky]

I don't really have a good reason for that other than, is more RAM a bad thing? Considering that going overboard didn't cost too much more than the bare minimum I was told to get, I thought I might as well go for it!

Who knows how much computron power I'll need by this time 4 or so years from now. If I'm lucky though then RAM will be 1 thing I wont have to upgrade at that time. :P

[knooger]

There will be DDR4 in 4-5 years i think also sockets will be different so you will have to change motherboard again etc. :)

[Cronky]

why tell me this when I'm so excited to have something somewhat current knooger? ;)

Also, just bought my Motherboard. WOOO! Soon I will have a computer again!