Down to 5 components....

Ordered the DVD/CD combo player and hard drive on Monday so all I have left is this list plus the PSU but BikerDog is sending that out.....

1. Motherboard....ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 AM3 AMD 880G HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

2.CPU....AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX

3.Memory.....G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL(I think this is the right stuff Viperman told me to get)

4.OS.....still up in the air on this one, though it will be a 64 bit windows 7, just not sure what version im getting.

5.Graphics Card.....XFX HD-687A-ZNFC Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity. (going to run my 9800GT in the computer first and see what that does first)

I am hoping you will get that Friday.
I think you'll be very pleased indeed.

As to OS....Home Premium is fine for most folks.

However, if you are wanting to log into your companies "Domain Server" or its "Terminal Server" then get the "Professional" version.
Yes, Home Premium has RDT. But for our company network, Windows Server 2003 and up, and accessing SQL Server datasets, you will need Professional.

Perhaps some of the other propeller heads can correct me if I'm wrong.

BikerDog

Consider this memory, if you can order soon:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?SID=u648681t2955351f9fp0dd0c0s701&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&Item=N82E16820145345&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na

Or this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?SID=u648681t2954889f9fp0dd0c0s701&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na&Item=N82E16820231445

I am hoping you will get that Friday.

Because everyone knows you gotta get down on Friday...

4.OS.....still up in the air on this one, though it will be a 64 bit windows 7, just not sure what version im getting.

You will definitely need to install 64 bit version for your 8 mb's of ram, and get the home version of win 7, I've got it and it's fine. No problems so far, everything runs smooth and fast.

I am hoping you will get that Friday.
I think you'll be very pleased indeed.

As to OS....Home Premium is fine for most folks.

However, if you are wanting to log into your companies "Domain Server" or its "Terminal Server" then get the "Professional" version.
Yes, Home Premium has RDT. But for our company network, Windows Server 2003 and up, and accessing SQL Server datasets, you will need Professional.

Perhaps some of the other propeller heads can correct me if I'm wrong.

BikerDog

as biker dog said home premium is what i say you get for businesses they get professional or enterprise edition because there are more active directory integrations in the operating system. i have professional because my school gives each IT student a free copy

Consider this memory, if you can order soon:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?SID=u648681t2955351f9fp0dd0c0s701&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&Item=N82E16820145345&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na

Or this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?SID=u648681t2954889f9fp0dd0c0s701&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na&Item=N82E16820231445

Ok its the same, DDR3 SDRAM 1600(PC3 12800) so what makes it different?

Consider this memory, if you can order soon:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?SID=u648681t2955351f9fp0dd0c0s701&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&Item=N82E16820145345&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na

Or this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?SID=u648681t2954889f9fp0dd0c0s701&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na&Item=N82E16820231445

Ok its the same, DDR3 SDRAM 1600(PC3 12800) so what makes it different?

The CAS latency on the G. Skill is 8, the lower, the better. Corsair is a well respected brand, better than most. The price of the G. Skill went back up though, so if you were looking for a bargain, the ship has sailed on that one...lol.