Building my first PC

LimerickDan

Hey guys, as the title already says it's my first time building a PC. Now im not a computer retard. I'm in college for the last 3 years in computer courses but nothing ever hardware orientated. Now I'm well able install things like Surround sound cards and things like RAM. But iv never bought a complete PC kit or all the parts and sit down and put it all together.

Now I have been looking into building a PC before but nothing came of it. Basically I became broke! But that doesnt matter. I was told to check out this site by Boards.ie a few months ago.

http://www1.hardwareversand.de/home.jsp?lb

Now I have a fair idea about what I need. It's just, like I said I've never done it before.

I'm looking for help basically. I don't wanna have to fork out 600-700 quid for parts only to realise that two of them don't work together or are incompatible, you know? I just don't wanna make that mistake.

Now I'm building this PC mostly for video editing. I render alot of videos and often have alot of programs open at the same time. So a very fast processor and more than 12 GB RAM is needed. It should be quad core of course. xD

I play a few PC games but nothing serious. minecraft is about my most played game. So as I'm going to build this computerpretty high speI might aswell put in a pretty decent graphics card.Now I know nothing about graphics cards plain and simple.

I'm not too bothered about a solid state hard drive but if I can find one for a good price.

So I'm thinking about this set-up:

Motherboard:

http://www1.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=49058&agid=1873

http://www1.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=48513&agid=1873

RAM:12GB:

http://www1.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=40700&agid=1193

16GB:

http://www1.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=40702&agid=1193

Hard Drive:

http://www1.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?agid=1284&aid=38561&lid=2

No, sorry about this long ass pst but I'm trying to about this the right way. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks

Monotype

The boards are socket FM1 which aren't great - very good integrated graphics for a system that you want to keep compact but poor processing power so bad idea for rendering. Not a great looking upgrade future for this line.
The second board only has two slots for RAM.

The first RAM is triple channel, which is for Intel's 1366 socket. You should buy RAM in pairs. Do you really need that much RAM? 4GB is more than enough for modern games and programs. 8GB is plenty for high end users. 16GB+ for very heavy professional users. Anyhow, RAM is pretty cheap at the moment so it can be fit in, it's just a case of spreading the money as best as possible.

Hard drive is a green drive. Good for storage but slow.

Could you check out this thread for a guideline of questions that you should answer for the kind of system you have in mind. You've already answered a good few of them, but just check out the rest please.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056397753