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    Building Gaming PC For First Time!

     
    Hello. New to building computers. I need advice. Looking to spend $1000-1500. I have a hdd, mouse, keyboard, hd monitor already. Please look over these specs and tell me if they are compatible and where I could upgrade something. Help me please haha.

    This is what I am looking to buy from Tigerdirect.

    Case-Cooler Master HAF 932 Full Tower Black Case

    Motherboard-ASUS Sabertooth X58 Motherboard - LGA 1366, Intel X58, SLI Ready, CrossFireX Ready, Triple Channel DDR3 support, SATA 6GB/s, USB 3.0

    CPU-Intel Core i7 950 Processor BX80601950 - 3.06GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 4.8GT/s QPI, HyperThreading, Quad Core, Bloomfield, LGA 1366,

    Graphics Card- Radeon 5870 (haven't decided which card yet. maybe will use 2 cards)

    Power Supply- Ultra X4 750-Watt Modular Power Supply - 135mm Fan, 80+ Bronze

    RAM-Thinking 6-8gb but am having a hard time picking one out.

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    If this is for gaming 6GB will be plenty fine, and more than enough RAM.

    As to the power supply, ditch the Ultra brand crap, their rubbish over priced Crap Tigerdirect Branded PSU's.


    Sometimes their ok, but for often than not their garbage... could be worse.

    But your better off going with a Quality Brand like Seasonic, Corsair, Antec, Silverstone and several others.
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