Quote Originally Posted by ExoByte View Post

Not quite. I haven't added multiple Graphics Cards for SLIing yet, or watercooling for ultimate overclocking capabilities.



It will be utilized.



The motherboard is only effectively compatible with tri-channel DDR3, DDR2 RAM is useless on this board. Changing the RAM means changing the Motherboard, and vice versa.



Yeah, already looking into changing the Hard drive.



No, I'm buying insurance by building a powerful computer that won't outdate itself immediately up completion.



Now that the standard is officially Blu Ray, it's only a matter of time before it is fully utilized. Might as well invest in the drive now as I'm going to need to later anyway.



Looking into it, haven't decided yet.
What will you use the i7 for that a much cheaper processor can't do?
You might as well get a mobo that will support DDR2, because DDR3 isn't really worth the money. If you want to stick with it, then go ahead.
I don't know what you're talking about, Blu-Ray isn't "standard" of anything. It's not always even better than a DVD for movies, because I've downloaded ones that can fit onto a DVD-R. They're still not packaging software or anything you buy on a disk other than movies on Blu-Ray, most things aren't even on DVDs. If you pirate your movies and whatnot, opitcal drives are almost useless, they're only good for the occasional need. I've probably used mine about twice in the past couple years.