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Did you make it a personal goal to spend as much money as possible or something? O_o

I would say ditch the 980X and buy a 2600k instead. They're pretty much equal performers and you'll save a ton of money. Unless you're doing extremely demanding threaded apps all the time and you seriously need it for productivity, the 980X is not worth the extra price over the 2600k. Use that money to buy another GTX 580 and SLI those puppies. You could even get yourself a nice SSD, which I highly recommend. Use it as a boot drive and for important programs, then use your hard drive as a slave drive for most programs and files.

Also, I don't know what operating system you're planning on getting, but I assume that you'll be using Windows 7 Home Premium x64. And, well, that only supports 16GB of RAM. Just a heads-up.

Oh yeah, and to answer your actual question, no, that motherboard won't work with that parts list. The socket for the CPU is wrong.

No, the 980X won't fit on that (awesome, btw) motherboard. The 980X uses the LGA1366 socket, the Rampage IV mobo uses LGA2011. You should go with the 2600K (which DOES use the LGA2011, and will save you alot of money in the process, and probably still get more performance). If you really need the highest-end CPU, go for the 3xxxX series, which is basically the 9xxX series of the 2nd generation "Sandy Bridge" Intel CPUs.

Also, I would ditch the network card, the mobo you are planning to get has just as good networking.

Other than that, everything looks good. You're gonna have a screaming gaming PC on your hands. 

fire219 wrote:

Also, I would ditch the network card, the mobo you are planning to get has just as good networking.

Other than that, everything looks good. You're gonna have a screaming gaming PC on your hands. 

So, um which card should I get? PS What is a mobo? Is it the motherboard? 
I feel so much like a noob again.

maail wrote:

Harakou wrote:

Also, I don't know what operating system you're planning on getting, but I assume that you'll be using Windows 7 Home Premium x64. And, well, that only supports 16GB of RAM. Just a heads-up.
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Umm acctually I will be using Ultimate x64.

Oh,usethen you should belinuxgood

Harakou wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

maail wrote:

Umm acctually I will be using Ultimate x64.

Oh,usethen you should belinuxgood

Yep, Ultimate will be fine then.

And I would guess he plans on gaming, which isn't viable on Linux just yet.

Your SSD options depend on how much you want to spend (although that doesn't seem to be an issue for you.  ) You may want to check out Anandtech's SSD benchmarks and Tom's Hardware's latest SSD Price/performance article, but keep in mind that prices change, so you're best doing comparisons yourself. (Keep reliability in mind, too)

For a starting point, you might want to look into Intel's 520 Series, the Crucial m4 or Samsung's 830 series. The links I've included are to the 128GB versions of those drives; you might of course decide you want more or less space.

Aren't you a mod? Can't you close that quitting topic right under this one?

Anyway, get a GTS from Zotac, really good and 2 slots.

Liru wrote:

Harakou wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Oh,usethen you should belinuxgood

Yep, Ultimate will be fine then.

And I would guess he plans on gaming, which isn't viable on Linux just yet.

Your SSD options depend on how much you want to spend (although that doesn't seem to be an issue for you.  ) You may want to check out Anandtech's SSD benchmarks and Tom's Hardware's latest SSD Price/performance article, but keep in mind that prices change, so you're best doing comparisons yourself. (Keep reliability in mind, too)

For a starting point, you might want to look into Intel's 520 Series, the Crucial m4 or Samsung's 830 series. The links I've included are to the 128GB versions of those drives; you might of course decide you want more or less space.

Aren't you a mod? Can't you close that quitting topic right under this one?

Anyway, get a GTS from Zotac, really good and 2 slots.

The GTS series aren't exactly high performance parts... they're decent performers in the low end, sure, but that's not what we're looking for. Besides, AFAIK Zotac isn't necessarily a bad make, but there are much better Nvidia OEMS such as EVGA and XFX.

A branch of Nvidia? No, not as far as I can find. They're just a China-based company that makes motherboards, graphics cards, and small, low-power PC's. 

And I guess I just don't see what the GTS 450 (which I assume is the card you refer to) has to do with this. It's a budget card, and this most certainly is not a budget rig. 

Oh, that's why you thought that. XD No, that's just the model in the GPU business. Companies, primarily Nvidia and AMD, design the cards, and then manufacturers like Zotac, Sapphire, and EVGA produce and sell graphics cards based on their reference board.

You can think of it sort of like PC manufacturers: they take parts made by other companies, assemble them into a computer while adding their own customization, then stick their branding on it and sell it to consumers.

I jut buy my computers at the store. That way it's easier.

turkey3 wrote:

I jut buy my computers at the store. That way it's easier.

Well, even though I have considered getting a new PC like that, none of the ones that I have checked seem to be capable of what I have planned. Currently I use an Alienware M14x laptop and that is better then most PC's I have seen, It runs Skyrim, Portal and Fraps with out any lag. But even this is not powerful enough to handle large scale programming and 3-D Rendering.

maail wrote:

fire219 wrote:

Also, I would ditch the network card, the mobo you are planning to get has just as good networking.

Other than that, everything looks good. You're gonna have a screaming gaming PC on your hands. 

So, um which card should I get? PS What is a mobo? Is it the motherboard? 
I feel so much like a noob again.

mobo = motherboard 

The motherboard has built in networking, and looks like it is even optimized for gaming, making an separate network card kinda useless.

@Liru: Unless your computer is really old, you shouldn't have to buy a new motherboard to upgrade the CPU. What CPU is in your computer right now? Maybe I could find a faster one that will fit the same socket.

AMD Phenom 8250e Triple-Core 1.90GHz