ONE MORE THOUGHT!

I have used ASUS boards in the past and they suck with overclocking, gigabyte is a better option, but its your choice, if you dont want to overclock it doesnt even matter

This is the final setup and was sent today.

ASUS AM3+ AMD990X DDR3 USB3 SATA6 ATX
AMD PHENOM II X4 960T 3.0G 6M AM3 95W BE
ASUS HD6870 DIRECTCU PCI-E 1GB GDDR-5
CORSAIR GS PSU 600W 14CM V2.3 80+
KINGSTON HYPERX 8GB KIT (2x 4GB) 1600MHz DDR3
SEAGATE BARRACUDA 12 1TB SATA3 7.2K 32MB
CORSAIR FORCE GT 90G 2.5" SSD
OPTI 5280S DL DVDRW 24X BLACK SATA
CM ELITE 430 MID TOWER BLACK

Thanks for the help everybody, my first custom setup by me, will be interesting...

I know I'm new to this thread but the specs look good to me, and the computer has room for upgrades. Just out of curiosity what monitor will you be using to play games with? I'm still running with an HD 4850 at 1080p with most games on high/ultra settings and your card is 2-2.5 times better than mine so it'll last you awhile.

I will use a BenQ 24" LED monitor, but my aim is not to be able to run Battlefield 3 on ultra settings.

We have the same motherboard, hard drive, and power supply. Our users are very happy.

My users are also very happy. They have the ability to be free with their motherboard. The ASUS board cannot offer a decent overclocking utility. Period.

Got it, it's quite awesome compared to before, windows start logo cuts half way :slurp:
Lowest windows experience index is 7.3 and highest 7.9, quite balanced build, and interesting having "harddrive" with the fastest index.
Did a benchmark on the Corsair Force GT 90 with ATTO Disk Benchmark, this is normal results right?

Glad to hear everything's working, have fun!

Your ATTO results looks normal.

Seems your drive has an advertised read rate of 600mb/s and an advertised write rate of 500mb/s from the results, It looks pretty normal for an ssd. Enjoy your build.

awesome

nice, glad your happy with it, look after it and do regular scans/defrags and cleanups

With an ssd do you even need defrags?

No...

When it comes to defrag, I use MyDefrag for data disk and Windows 7 enable TRIM on the SSD.

Unlocked the 2 locked cores on the 960T with success and reset it without problems, don't really need it right now, but I know it's possible when I've grabbed some better cooling :grinthumb

Just to clarify, do NOT defrag your SSD, it actually ruins performance by performing unecessary write cycles. Access times are in milliseconds which is one of the great benefits of an SSD.

TRIM is all you need.

aha it seems I missed the part where it said that ssd's were part of the new system.. my bad D: