Any advice on my $1500 setup Im building

I'm building a PC, any advise is good. What do you think? I was aiming for around $1500 give or take $100. So I did alright there. anything you think I should switch out? or maybe downgrade to upgrade something else? I'll later on have around a 22'-24 LCD X2HDMI outputs for PC gaming/movies**Case: Thermaltake ArmorPlus(Armor+) VH6000BWS Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower

MOBO: ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard

HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (X2 in RAID 0 for Vista booting)

HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (for data)

**CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz
**/w Cooling: ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler**RAM: OCZ Reaper HPC 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) (x2 4GB)**DVD ROM: LG 20X DVD盧 DVD Burner w/ SecurDisc Tech Black SATA Model
**Graphics Card: POWERCOLOR Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI (OC version) Power Supply: CORSAIR 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply**OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Premium SP1 64-bitTOTAL- $1559.87 -$85 in Mail-In RebatesAny advice on my $1500 setup Im building
Save $80 and get Vista Home Premium 64-bit. $180 vs. $100.Do you need ultimate?Get a CPU fan like Arctic Freezer 7 Pro, it already comes with thermal compound applied.Any advice on my $1500 setup Im building
[QUOTE=''dayday6'']Save $80 and get Vista Home Premium 64-bit. $180 vs. $100.Do you need ultimate?Get a CPU fan like Arctic Freezer 7 Pro, it already comes with thermal compound applied.[/QUOTE] took both your advice. I guess I really dont need Ultimate, CPU could always use better cooling too. updated my post.you saved me $51.00 =]
Try going for a non reference cooled HD4870 like this one, higher clocks and much better cooling.
Instead of the Q6600, get an E8500. Much better for today's games.Get Reaper DDR2-1150. It's only like 30 bucks for two, 1GB sticks.And if you want a full tower, just go with the Stacker 832. Great case, no tools required.
[QUOTE=''wklzip'']Try going for a non reference cooled HD4870 like this one, higher clocks and much better cooling. [/QUOTE] Took your advice on the Powercolor 4870 /w custom cooling. After some google researching =P [QUOTE=''Thompsonwhore'']Instead of the Q6600, get an E8500. Much better for today's games.Get Reaper DDR2-1150. It's only like 30 bucks for two, 1GB sticks.And if you want a full tower, just go with the Stacker 832. Great case, no tools required.[/QUOTE] Took your advice on the E8500 and switched to that. Going to OC it obviously. I changed from x2(2x2gb reapers)8GB to x2(2x1gb reapers)4GB (cheaper). MOBO only has 4 slots. *actually rethinking that desicion*and still thinking about the case. That one you mentioned is cool but sorta makes me realise how fcking huge Full Towers are. So I dunno yet.Saved now $155.01 from original cost
welcome on mid-range gmaing for 1280x1024. Tool Less Case Id take a antec 900 for non Quad fire / Tri sli set up
For Water-cooling + quad fire / Tri sli id take a thermtalke Armor anytime. quieter then antec and full tower size instead of medium

For You'r information having lot of hard Drive won't increase more then 3-4% gaming experiances max 10% with some unique game : Video card / cpu / ram is all what gamer should care and Ofcourse overclockign fore more fps.
E8500 to go. and if you seek best OC with guide id Get a
DFI X48 Dark Series less expensive then X48 Asus rampage formula %26 Work better it the ultimate of overclockign as i know
after it For unexperianced overclocker the Gigabyte PT6 Last models 350$ who second place in overclocking with is EAsy power managmenet %26 Software bios


If i was you with that money id build it pure gaming but if it more multi-media hard Drive a solution
like this mid-old pc 4600x2 76000GT will be used as multi-media pc when i done building my E8600 / X48 motherboard
With 2GB ram 800mhz i got a stack of 1GB roamign at 533mhz will put them back inside it. and switch my DDR2 to new system that will be 4870x2 / PSU HX1000WATS CORSAIR for 100$ more then 750X For Future rpoofing %26 Long Lifespawn
As well as modular PSU top of that il get a Thermtalke Armor Full tower To equip my System With a Great Case
And Put a 1920x1200 monitor when i found out which one the best suited for me ? 2ms ? 5ms. 1920x1200 For Gaming %26 smooth Viewing.

the Pc Part Will cost me self part 1500$ : The CASE %26 monitor will climb it to 2100$
how about a Thermaltake Armour+
LOVE that case

also the E8500 is nice
i would get 4GB, 8GB is a waste

but
you COULD, get a E8400 and if that saves enough money get 2x 4870's in Crossfire

do you really need blu ray??
for me, i already have a PS3 so i didnt get one in my computer
but Blu Ray drives are expensive, and you need a 24'' moniter for 1080P (full HD)

and at 24'' res (1920x1200) 2x 4870's will do you good
Yeah monitor of 1080P Cheal quality TN panel i heard is 299$ : BENQ : 430$-5004 good Qualtiy 24 inch
and you could maybe GET instead of 2x4870's A 4870x2. sometime less expensive and perform better

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[QUOTE=''Lehman'']how about a Thermaltake Armour+
LOVE that case

also the E8500 is nice
i would get 4GB, 8GB is a waste

but
you COULD, get a E8400 and if that saves enough money get 2x 4870's in Crossfire

do you really need blu ray??
for me, i already have a PS3 so i didnt get one in my computer
but Blu Ray drives are expensive, and you need a 24'' moniter for 1080P (full HD)

and at 24'' res (1920x1200) 2x 4870's will do you good[/QUOTE] After reading that I figured... Yeah wtf do I need a Blu-Ray for?, I do have a PS3 too. So I downgraded the blu-ray drive to dvd and upgraded the case to a Themaltake Armor case as you mention after taking a look at them. I think this build right now is pretty solid. Unless anyone else wants to share? lol =P
well
yeh without the blu ray drive
you can get a 22'' moniter or 24'' if you want

i still rekon with the money saved get a 4870X2 or 2x 4870's in Crossfire