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Sorry if I missed something. Im looking at the tracking centre and its a bit lacking in options, mainly its just choosing to delete items or not. Is it possible to create "Playlist"? Finding all those mods you want to use is pretty time consuming, but to do it everytime you reinstall and/or remove? For example, I make a 2015 Fallout 3 Playlist, it lists all the mods that I organized into it and come back in a year, I just have to redownload everything(maybe prune outdated things, etc.) or is that covered in the Mod Manager?

I only recently got into gaming hardware but this is what I understand of it. Currently most games do not eat up more than 2gb, popular exceptions is Battlefield 3 in some situations and Skyrim. If you want to go crazy with High res mods and the like in Skyrim then you would definitely need more than 2gb. Because being mods they are not optimized so it will eat up Vram, Multi-monitor setups and increasing resolutions will increase use of vram. Personally I would recommend the Gtx 670 4gb if you can spare the cash.

Thank you for all the replies, it helps. Im narrowing down to my "final" build Case: Cooler Master CM Storm Trooper Full Tower Gaming Case Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 Socket 1155 Intel Z77 Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8gb Hard Drive: Western Digital Black 32mb 1tb Power Supply: OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W Power Supply (OCZ700MXSP) CPU Cooler: ZALMAN CNPS10X Performa My goal now for the CPU and Graphics card is to be able to run BF3 at a stable 50-60fps+. Im interested about this SLi thing. do they have to be the same video cards? can i add a third some time in the early future? Or is GTX 680 2gb GDDR5. im seeing different brands where I get my stuff. EVGA GeForce/Gigabyte/Zotac/Msi/Asus/MSI. For the CPU, any of the i5's in this page. http://www.canadacomputers.com/advanced_search_result.php?category_id=Desktop%20Intel%20Processors&keywords=intel%20i5&page=1&sort=3d Or anything cheaper than the Intel i7-980 on this page. http://www.canadacomputers.com/advanced_search_result.php?category_id=Desktop%20Intel%20Processors&keywords=intel%20i7&page=1&sort=3d

My current list Chassis: Cooler Master CM Storm Trooper Full Tower Gaming Case http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=6_111&item_id=042885 CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K ($239) Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme6($189) or AsRock Z77 Extreme4($149) Video Card: I cant tell whats better. (One) EVGA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti FPB($219) / (One) EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti FPB($119) / (Two) EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti FPB Or something else? What would it take to run something like BF3 on max settings. Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz ($104) Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black (WD1001FALS) 1000GB (1TB) SATAII 7200RPM ($89) 32mb Cache if there is not much noticable difference between that and 64mb. I think the only thing im missing is POWER SUPPLY and CPU COOLER but otherwise does this BUILD work?

Convinced me, going full tower. I guess 8gb is a good number for ram, i cal always buy more ram later, right? Im looking at this chart which I hope is accurate. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html I checked the i7 3960x, its up there but the cost is a bit high. What im eyeing is the Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4Ghz ($239) since the general consensus in the internet is that it beats any i7 in its price range. Currently trying to figure out all the parts that go in a Pc at the moment but what is the difference in a Case fan, a CPU cooling, a video card cooling? Since its an Intel Core, ive read that you need an intel motherboard. Does this one work? http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=26_722&item_id=049002

Never built a Pc before and Ive read a little bit of the other threads but im a bit overwhelmed. I wanted to get into custom pc building to save money(upgrading components in the future) and this forum seemed like a good place to get help. I am in Canada and the main place I would get parts for the computer is in this retail store. http://www.canadacomputers.com/ My priority is getting parts which work well together and the most out of them within my price range, then worry about putting them in a case. My price range is $500-900, unless really necessary up to $1,###. The case, OS, and monitor not included in the estimate but would prefer it lower than maybe $700 so i can get a "good" monitor. I want to be able to play current gen games at max settings and maybe up to 1 year later. Also with USB 3.0, additionaly im a bit scared of Overclocking. I have a few questions. It seems for desktops that i5 beats i7, is it a overclocking thing or is it more efficient? 16gb ram worth it? or just a price gimmick? Mid tower or Full Tower Chassis? is the space for better cooling the only difference? For case im looking at Cooler Master HAF X Full Tower Gaming Case or something from NZXT.