Madock

“why am using these is because of more stability, tired of windows crashing but with enough power to do all i need”. Ecc ram won’t help you to face hazardous OS installation, unstable o/c settings and drivers. Asus P8B WS is design for entry level workstations and servers with sas ability (SASsaby) on 206 chipset. As many other Mobos it supports up to 32 Go ram. Considering the lower and affordable price at 1333 MHz, why don't you start with 16 Go? 4 slots filled with 4 Go each. If one piece crashes, you have still two others working in Dual channel. You just need to take out the crashed one and its opposite and you can till work with 8 Go. Gamers usually prefer higher ram frequencies, above 1866 MHz. JEDEC hasn't validate more than 1600 MHz. But ecc quality at 1600 MHz is a completely other money form factor... For higher fps in games it is better to take higher frequencies, latency is secondary. That means heat, fans, noise... (HTPC requires silent) and losing warranty. E3-xxx5 series has iGPU that is equal to FX 580. Only 32 CUDA Cores. If you take the EVGA 02G-P3-1469-RX with 336 CC, you probably don't need iGPU. But a higher bandwidth avoiding NOPs. 16 Go ram do fine. Considering quality, a warranty of 5 years for SSDs with professional support and tools is fine. Commonly 120 Go SSDs are given for a workload of 30 Go writes a day. Same for PSU, P8B WS needs just ATX V2 and above. If you” prefer not to power off at nights, should run 24/7s”, a PSU with 24/7 and at least 3 years warranty would be a good choice. 650 W means 1000 VA power protection (VA=W/0.66, as a general rule of thumb). If you are not going to o/c, you probably not need that much power (electricity bill). With 16 Go ram, you have about 16 Go pagefile and 12 Go of hiberfil. That means that you will start with 111,6 GO on a 128 Go SSD after formatting. Once installed, win7@64 will take about 40 Go (incl. hiber and pagefile). 71 Go left! At 24/7 you will turn off hiberfil.sys and recover those 12 Go, so 83 Go left. At least, the old fashioned Noctua NH-C12P SE14 works great for both, CPU and low profiled ram. Coming soon, without ecc compatibility: Asus P8Z77 WS. This could be a better choice considering cooling, ram frequencies and connectivity. Are you sure about the 206 chipset of the P8B ws? Hoping this helps! System : P8B WS, E3-1275, 16 Go ecc ram (KVR1333D3E9S/4G), quadro 600, SSD KC100/120 Go and Seasonic S12II 430 Bronze.