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Gaming at native res on a 24" would be limited with an HD 5700 series card.

Ok since you're in California, buy as many parts as possible from Amazon.com since they do not charge us CA residents tax like Newegg does. For the usage scenario you're describing, the Core i5 750 would be a good choice. In your particular situation, the Core i7 860 would be a good CPU to buy if buying from Amazon.com and within budget. Mobo wise, this mobo would be a good choice for your needs: $105 - Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 Intel...

The Core i7 920 bloomfield cpus has a triple channel DDR3 controller. The Core i7 860 cpu has a dual channel DDR3 controller. They both have similar features in that they both are 45nm technology with 8MB of shared L3 cache memory and both support HT. But, because the Core i7 860 has a dual channel memory controller vs triple channel on the Core i7 920, this would lower the cost of the system because you can just use 4GB (2x2GB) of DDR3 vs...

The 1156 socket uses dual channel memory, hense the 4gb. For more ram you would need two sets. EVGA /920 combo $484 ($464AR) http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...t=Combo.290383

for your size display, answer would be no.

definitely! i'm sure i'll have no trouble going overboard with pics. it's been quite a long time since my last build, so i want to savor this one. going to take it nice and slow and cross all my t's and dot all my i's. hopefully all of these parts will be ordered by monday at the latest, which means i'll be able to start building by next weekend. woo hoo!

If you don't use more than 100GB of storage, then you could go with a RAID 0 array using two 80GB SSDs. But you need to have some sort of back-up "solution," regardless of whether it's internal or external. It seems like you're currently using a 2TB HDD for storage... I recommend keeping that instead of using an external HDD for backing up the RAID 0 setup.

Quote: Originally Posted by LightningCrash Aspire Revo 330 limited by a very low end CPU, and a par GPU, unfortuneately. Zachstar will say otherwise, if this was a HTPC (not hitting against you, Zachstar, but you know way more then me, here)

I just flashed my bios and am running memtest atm, 1 hr has elapsed with no errors thus far, I am going to head out and leave it on for a few more hrs and see how it does.

Quote: Originally Posted by keenan Also not sure why you want to use the same board for pfSense as for your filer, the requirements are very different. I want interchangeable parts between the two for ease of use in the future, and I also run extra services on the pfsense box (only safe things like a squid proxy, etc). You're right, it's overkill, but I may decide to do something else with it the future, and this price point seems...