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I'm about to finish ordering parts for a pc I'm gonna attempt to make and I just want to make sure I'll have everything I need and won't need any additional cables or cords or anything little or anything big that I forgot to purchase. Anyway here is what I went with (also I believe I got all from newegg)

Tower: Coolermaster Storm Enforcer

Motherboard: Asrock P67 extreme 4 (not sure if you need anything other then that)

CPU: I5-2500k

Ram: G.skill ripjaws 8g ddr3 1600

HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1tb

PSU: Corsair TX750 V2 750W

Video card: MSI N560GTX-TI Twin Frozr II/OC GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

cd/dvd: ASUS 24X DVD Burner

I think thats all of it. I did buy a 200mm fan for the case and COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus. So again just wondering if I'll need anything else yet. Goal is to be putting it together this weekend. Thanks



 
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In my own personal opinion i would not have bought a Samsung. Call me old fashioned but im a big fan of Seagate. I have had too many problems in the past with Samsung and have been impressed with Seagate's 5 year warranty.
 
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Seagate used to be good. Their current drives have had a significant number of failures. Samsung's F3 is the fastest and one of the most reliable drives on the market today.


@OP - you shouldn't need any extra cables if all of your stuff was bought new. The motherboard will come with several SATA cables, and the HDD/ODD will come with some if they are retail and not bare OEM drives. As far as the system goes it looks good. Only tweak I would have made would have been to go with the ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3, as it is a Z68 board, more future proof, and cheap ($130).
 
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LMFAO, seagate are probably the second most unreliable drives next to samsung, and most of the time they are devestating failures losing all your data. I wouldnt buy anything but Western digital, if they fail, its generally a bad sector or two and you can at least retreive your data.
 
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Not sure on that. You would have to tell my currently 5 year old dual 500Gb Seagates or even my 8 year old Seagates that they are bad drives. Yet they still work great and pass all diag tests.

And I have had WD HDDs fail just as bad as any other HDD. In fact some fail to the point where they freeze systems up. Its all luck based. And I work with a lot of HDDs. I would say Toshiba HDDs are the worst, and Seagate/WDs are the best of them all for HDDs. And I have my own WDs as well so I have experience outside of my work.

As for the OP, I would swap the G.Skill out for Corsair RAM. No reason to go with anything else if you want the best overall stability.
 
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Not sure on that. You would have to tell my currently 5 year old dual 500Gb Seagates or even my 8 year old Seagates that they are bad drives. Yet they still work great and pass all diag tests.

And I have had WD HDDs fail just as bad as any other HDD. In fact some fail to the point where they freeze systems up. Its all luck based. And I work with a lot of HDDs. I would say Toshiba HDDs are the worst, and Seagate/WDs are the best of them all for HDDs. And I have my own WDs as well so I have experience outside of my work.
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The older Seagate drives (>3 years ago) were great drives. I don't understand how their quality slipped so much in recent years. Maybe their acquisition of Samsung's HDD division will restore it's prior reputation (?).

As for the OP, I would swap the G.Skill out for Corsair RAM. No reason to go with anything else if you want the best overall stability.
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G.Skill's kits are pretty good. I know a lot of people who prefer it even over the bigger RAM manufacturers like Corsair, Patriot, Kingston, etc and use it for overclocking and the like. I switched from Patriot to G.Skill's Ripjaws X and haven't had any issues with my 2 2x4 kits, and they were significantly cheaper than Patriot's thanks to Newegg's constant G.Skill discounts/sales.
 
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combo the Z68 with a small SSD and you got yourself a complete system
or at least get the Z68 and get an SSD later down the road.
as for the hard drive war... I dont' agree with any one brand is a lot more reliable than the other.
none of the hard drives on the market has a high enough failure rate to not buy it at a good price
what it comes down to is performance and noise.
the reason is because all the brands out there now have been on the market for more than 10 years, and
if they had any serious issues we would know or they would be out of business by now.
I have found my samsungs are super duper quiet and is fast enough to store my media and backups.
also bluray/dvd writers are now pretty cheap, you may be able to look into that
 
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I'd like to suggest some artic silver thermal compound over the stock thermal compound. It is vastly superior to the stock thermal compound. Not sure if you've already chosen some but I'd add that to the list if you've not already got some. Oh, and maybe an anti-static wrist strap too.
 
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Depending on how many bay slots you have, they just slide in and connect up. They give you all types of memory cards that can be read up close on your pc, some also give you firewire, sata, and usb connections on them as well.
 
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Z68 is basically what the P67 chipset should have been. It allows you to OC like the P67 chipset, but also has integrated graphics like the H67 chipset. Having the integrated GPU won't hurt, and may actually help you if there is ever a problem with the GPU and still need to use the computer. Plus, the Extreme3 Gen3 is cheaper than most P67 boards with comparable features, and includes SLI certification (hard to get for the price).

The Z68 chipset also has Smart Response Technology (AKA caching) that will allow you to use a small SSD (~20GB) to speed up loading times of frequently used programs. Essentially you plug it in, set it up, and go; the software will detect what data you use often and stage the data in the SSD to read faster.
 
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seeing 8 drives is a bit different to seeing the 1000's of drives that i have seen. There was actually a reliability study on toms that proved my point, an article a while ago, i think hitachi came out on top followed by WD, then the others were much lower reliability.
 
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A) If I'm remembering the same article, those were enterprise-grade hard drives, and the % of reported failures differed by 2% at most among the most reliable drives.

B) Those drives were made in the last few years. There is very clearly a difference between Seagate's drives made ~5+ years ago and their drives made within the last 2 years.
 
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