re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

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Depends on whether you're like me and just keep your entire day/week's worth of activity open all the time.

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Yeah - I hate to close tabs. And, I usually have both Firefox and IE open at the same time. Plus other programs. Of course, I'm running Windows 7 Professional, with 4gb and I rarely run out of memory.

I'm probably going 16gb for the new build, but you typically recommend as little RAM as you can get away with, rather than overbuying - simply because most people overbuy ram (and, to a lesser degree, processor and power supply) - I try to heed that when setting budget lines for various components.

Things I'm going to do as "firsts" this upcoming build:

First Fractal case

First full build of intel PC from scratch (I've built up from Dell server towers with Pentium 4s - and I've swapped out intel processors - but never an intel build from the ground up - all AMD for those builds in the past)

First G.Skill memory (I'm a Crucial/Corsair guy)

First fully modular case

First fully modular PS

First "non-budget" build

So, I'm excited enough about the differences - this may be the first build with no platter drives, but I'm probably going to throw 1 in there for local media and backup - if nothing else.