Building a New Gaming/Editing PC, need help

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Hi guys!

I am new here but I have a couple of questions. I am building a new Gaming/Editing PC and I have a budget of around $1,500. Link - http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2Vp7H

I have put together a little something on PC Part Picker and it's looking pretty good, but I have a couple of questions:

I haven't been able to find whether the motherboard is dual or quad channel, I'm guessing it's a dual channel given the price. If so, should I go with the 4 x 4 memory or stick to 2 x 8? I am not planning to upgrade to 32 GB, so I don't know what to do.

 

Also I haven't added a video card in the PC Part Picker, that's because I know the 800 series are dropping sometime in Q1, so pretty soon. I was thinking of going for a 770 before that, but the big question is, should I wait for the 800 series or buy a 770 right now? I want to go Nvidia not because I'm a fanboy, most of the cards I've had in the past were AMD, but I want to take advantage of CUDA.

 

Also I'm going with the red/black colour scheme, that's why I got that mobo and Ram, plus I'm getting Bitfenix LED red strips :3

 

Thanks in advance!

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I'd go with 2x8 GB if its cheaper, if only to give you the option to upgrade in the future if need be. The motherboard is indeed dual channel.

Based off the 750 Ti, the 800 series seems like it will have great power efficiency, but not a very large performance boost. If power consumption is important I'd wait, but if not, I'd just get it now.

I'd recommend getting a different hard drive, the WD greens are only 5400 RPM drives. 7200 RPM is quite a bit better.

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Oh, I had no idea the Green drive was 5400RMP, thanks for pointing that out! And yeah, I'll probably go with the 2 x 8, even if I don't plan on upgarding, just to have that option. 

 

And about the GPU, so I shouldn't wait for the 800 series, but then again, when 800 series is released will 700 series have a price drop? So I would be able to get maybe a 780 instead of a 770?

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Ok so I've updated the Pc part picker

 

Thoughts? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2Vqzu