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Hi! It's been a little while, but I've been busy with summer stuff. :) But to give an update, the computer's still running fine! I was going to return the Caviar Black, but taking it out did not fix...

Thanks! I checked my CPU temps today, and under heavy load it reached a max of 78c. Is that normal? Wondering if I should consider the Hyper 212 now or if it's not really worth the risk.
I used the...

I've successfully gone through the RMA process with Newegg and I should be shipping the drive back soon. Here's the drive I'm expecting to replace it with:
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Thanks! It was a fun experience, and (having used computers for years but never built one) it felt funny when finished to see that all those parts really do make a computer. haha

I'm not sure if...

My computer was built successfully! :D It's working very well, no real issues so far. The only mistake we made was that we left the little sticker on the mobo that covers USB slots on the back, so...

I got an anti-static wrist strap, so I think I should be alright! I'm using the stock Intel cooler, because I'm not overclocking so I don't see the need.

I was going to put this in my signature,...

I would doubt that an expensive motherboard like this would not allow RAM overclocking of any sort, and I'm not planning to overclock at the moment anyways. 1600 should be enough for me, I think. So...

The motherboard I chose, the Asus Sabertooth Z77, states on the specs page that the ‘memory standard’ it supports is “DDR3 1866/1600/1333”. Does this simply mean that I cannot overclock RAM on this...

Thank you for all the help and research! I’ve taken a week to consider everything, and I may be pulling the trigger in just a couple days now (it depends on a financial thing, but it will be very...

Thanks for your research! There is quite a bit of complexity to accurately comparing these processors. I’ve tried to make things easier by focusing on my personal interests and the major changes that...

I assume you mean get the 3rd gen if I want to get any use out of 'Turbo Boost Technology 2.0'.
Here's another article on the Ivy Bridge heating issue......

I've found another SSD called Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Deluxe that is faster and has a 240GB model for $250, rather impressive when compared to Intel's 120GB for $190. This would be way more bang for...

I bought the WD Caviar Black 1TB from Newegg before the $20 coupon expired! So that part of it's done.

I'm looking more closely at the SSD: I would I like to put my games on it if I could, to...

That's likely, the GTX680 isn't optimized for PCIe 3.0 (simply compatible) but I wouldn't be surprised if future GPUs were made to make use of the extra bandwidth. So that's something to consider as...

I may be purchasing the GPU at any given time, so does it matter which brand nVidia Geforce GTX680 I get? I really need to know :)

I'm honestly not super advanced as far as understanding the...

It's funny that technology is at this state of transition when I'm just about ready to build a computer. Haha. Thanks for the info, I'm going to give it some days and see what people think of the Ivy...

Thanks zburns, that clears up quite a bit. It sounds like I'll probably be purchasing an Asus monitor. Hopefully in the future big name brands will lower the price of their 2560x1440 monitors, and I...

Alright, I'm hoping to hopefully pull the trigger sometime early next week :D Exciting!

The monitor I'm looking at is from Korea and only available on Ebay, the Crossover 27Q. I was looking at a...

Okay, thanks! That makes sense.

There are quite a few LGA1155 Z77 motherboards out there, are there any you recommend? There's a more expensive Gigabyte motherboard on Newegg, I'm not sure why...

Thanks for the heads up on the sale! I'm not sure we'll be able to get around to it today (busy) but $10 probably won't end up being a big deal. Hopefully whatever Nvidia announces on Saturday will...

The GTX 680 is out of stock at the moment, but I'll probably wait till the 28th to see if maybe some new shipments will be coming soon (and hopefully a price drop).

I'm a fan of the Antec 900's...

Troublesome in what way? Less stable perhaps? I've never built a computer before so if SLI would be too difficult to troubleshoot it may make more sense to go with a single card.

In that case, I'm researching several graphics cards now- What's the best GPU for about $500? I'm inclined to think it would be the GTX 680:
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I'd rather not have a case that's bigger than it needs to be -- I'll be using the computer in a pretty small space. How about the Antec 900 (or 902) case? I was actually looking at that before as...

Hi there!
I've been researching the past couple of weeks to find the best computer (peformance-wise) that I can get for a budget of around $2000. I've never built a computer but I've had a lot of...