I am not sold on the graphics myself; sure it will be an awesome card but I can not help but feel you could shave some money off there and not lose much, if anything, in the performance world. On the other hand unless it is proper CAD workstation time I tend not to go for graphics that expensive (I would argue it is expensive for the sake of being expensive) which coupled with graphics largely being the most easily upgraded internal device.
Just looking down the graphics from the same company:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130508
Probably will overclock into similar regions and is about $200 cheaper.
Case: motherboard is ATX so obviously an ATX supporting case is needed, everything else just deals with amount of drives you want to stick in there.
Alas we are in the high end of computing/physics now so cooling becomes a problem (in your basic desktop it is not much of a concern and a case is a case) and as you are going with air cooling some case fans are a good idea.
On the flip side I see the odd plastic sided case and I hear reports of electrical interference but nothing major which given they are often the domain of those who whine about anything and everything I am not so sure.
Solid state: most people who spring for drives like the ones on your list will stick them in a RAID and use it for stuff that requires speed. As you might expect running an OS on top of that will mean sometimes the disc is used for the OS and other times for the speed requiring software leading to lots of "random" reads which are slow in electromechanical drives.
Long story short forget about it and especially if RAID is not your thing. If you want to test it out buy a good CF card and an adapter as you will get a similar feel for it.
Speaking of the drives seedvt is right on and the "slow" part comes largely from them being 7200RPM (10000 RPM drives have been around in normal computer circles for a few years now) although they are significantly smaller in capacity and frankly I do not see the need.
Keyboard and mouse: never used the ones you link but $30 for both does not seem right (especially wireless). You are using the keyboard and mouse every time you are on the machine and for most it matters more than what is under the hood so to speak.
Cooler: not sure about the stock i7 coolers so I will shut up.
ram: I say stick with the 4 lots of 2 gig ram although as Joe88 says triple channel is called for, 4 gigs sticks do exist ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820220422 note that this is server ram and technically of lower spec than what you were looking at) even 8 gigs ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820609486 again I am looking at server ram and as you can see the price point is more than your entire setup which as others has said is already ridiculous). You do not appear to want to upgrade this any time soon and frankly 8 gigs is a ridiculous amount of ram for most things (I struggle to hit 2 unless I am purposely trying to get that high or something memory leaks).
DVD drive is a DVD drive (they messed up their copying and pasting of specs by the way) unless you have to argue otherwise in which case you can already pick a good one out. LightScribe does not do anything for me (have you seen how much discs cost?) but that is nothing to cry over.
@Vidboy10 XP is sadly directX9 only for whatever reason, not to mention I ran it on my 7900GS (8XXX was the first Nvidia series to support DX10).
Just looking down the graphics from the same company:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130508
Probably will overclock into similar regions and is about $200 cheaper.
Case: motherboard is ATX so obviously an ATX supporting case is needed, everything else just deals with amount of drives you want to stick in there.
Alas we are in the high end of computing/physics now so cooling becomes a problem (in your basic desktop it is not much of a concern and a case is a case) and as you are going with air cooling some case fans are a good idea.
On the flip side I see the odd plastic sided case and I hear reports of electrical interference but nothing major which given they are often the domain of those who whine about anything and everything I am not so sure.
Solid state: most people who spring for drives like the ones on your list will stick them in a RAID and use it for stuff that requires speed. As you might expect running an OS on top of that will mean sometimes the disc is used for the OS and other times for the speed requiring software leading to lots of "random" reads which are slow in electromechanical drives.
Long story short forget about it and especially if RAID is not your thing. If you want to test it out buy a good CF card and an adapter as you will get a similar feel for it.
Speaking of the drives seedvt is right on and the "slow" part comes largely from them being 7200RPM (10000 RPM drives have been around in normal computer circles for a few years now) although they are significantly smaller in capacity and frankly I do not see the need.
Keyboard and mouse: never used the ones you link but $30 for both does not seem right (especially wireless). You are using the keyboard and mouse every time you are on the machine and for most it matters more than what is under the hood so to speak.
Cooler: not sure about the stock i7 coolers so I will shut up.
ram: I say stick with the 4 lots of 2 gig ram although as Joe88 says triple channel is called for, 4 gigs sticks do exist ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820220422 note that this is server ram and technically of lower spec than what you were looking at) even 8 gigs ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820609486 again I am looking at server ram and as you can see the price point is more than your entire setup which as others has said is already ridiculous). You do not appear to want to upgrade this any time soon and frankly 8 gigs is a ridiculous amount of ram for most things (I struggle to hit 2 unless I am purposely trying to get that high or something memory leaks).
DVD drive is a DVD drive (they messed up their copying and pasting of specs by the way) unless you have to argue otherwise in which case you can already pick a good one out. LightScribe does not do anything for me (have you seen how much discs cost?) but that is nothing to cry over.
@Vidboy10 XP is sadly directX9 only for whatever reason, not to mention I ran it on my 7900GS (8XXX was the first Nvidia series to support DX10).
