Hello,

I've built a few computers and wouldn't consider myself a novice, however, I always like to hear other's thoughts. I'm looking to built a 'large' memory linux machine, and have pieced together the machine listed by part below. Any thoughts on this? In particular with regard to the mobo and memory?

Thanks in advance,

Charles

Case
Antec Sonata http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6811129057

Power Supply
Antec 650W http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6817371015

Motherboard
ASUS P6T Delux http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6813131365

Processor i7
i7 Nehalem 2.66Ghz http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6819115202

Video Card
GeForce 9800 GTX http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6814130339

Memory
12 GB 3x4GB DDR3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6820609459
12 GB 3x4GB DDR3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6820609459

Storage
SATA 1TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6822136313
SATA 1TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6822136313

650W should be fine. I have a 650W Antec PSU (their modular range rather than the EarthWatts) running an i7 920 on the same board as that with a GTX275 and an 8800GT as well as 3 SATA Hard disks, a TV tuner, a wireless card and loads of fans. I do only have 3 sticks of RAM in there rather than 6 but the extra vid card and other PCI cards should make up for that.

Power requirements are over estimated to make up for the poor quality PSUs on the market, that Antec is not one of them.

PS: Why do you need 24GB of RAM? I'm not sure if that motherboard can take more than 12, 2GB in each slot. I'll have a look at my manual when I get home tonight.

what a beast of a machine! My thoughts, if you are creating a beast, why not go SLi? (If linux supports it?) and I agree a better power supply too, check out thermaltakes website (thermaltake.com) The one you've chosen should be fine as other posts suggest, but save up for an extra week or so and get something more beasty! Just a thought... =)