[Crixx]

Pretty much everything above this post I can agree with ^_^.

One thing to consider though is that Ivy bridge is due for release at the end of april (month and a half away), so if you're not in a huge hurry it may be worth the wait.

Other than that, maybe upgrade those G.Skill ripjaws to the 1600Mhz model? I know RAM clock speed doesn't make a huge difference with sandy bridge, but the price difference is minimal and 1600 is pretty much the norm at the moment. And lastly, perhaps consider a better SSD. Read/write speed is ~250MB/s, whereas for a small price increase you can snag an SSD of the same capacity with a read/write speed of ~500MB/s. My suggestion would be this (or the Intel equivalent here).

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Originally Posted by Crixx

Pretty much everything above this post I can agree with ^_^.

One thing to consider though is that Ivy bridge is due for release at the end of april (month and a half away), so if you're not in a huge hurry it may be worth the wait.

Other than that, maybe upgrade those G.Skill ripjaws to the 1600Mhz model? I know RAM clock speed doesn't make a huge difference with sandy bridge, but the price difference is minimal and 1600 is pretty much the norm at the moment. And lastly, perhaps consider a better SSD. Read/write speed is ~250MB/s, whereas for a small price increase you can snag an SSD of the same capacity with a read/write speed of ~500MB/s. My suggestion would be this (or the Intel equivalent here).

I'm guessing he's not planning on overclocking his CPU therefore won't get any benefit from anything above 1333 (unless this changed with Sandy Bridge or will with Ivy Bridge, but to my knowledge standard un-overclocked core i7 won't utilise memory clock over 1333), so it's a redundant cost

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