Building new system for 2nd Family room

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Here is a list of the items I will be using for the system. I know I could have selected better options but each item was a deal and this is really just to have the family connect online and network in the 2nd room of the new house. It will be run with a 46 inch LCD Sony Bravia 1080P for a monitor. There is already a BR DVD and another DVD/VCD player with Karaoke hooked into the TV. It will be operated by a Yamaha RX-2500 receiver along with a 5.1 Definitive speaker system and a 12 inch powered sub. I did not wish to drill holes in the floor board so I bought a Netgear AV 500 adapter. This will also hook up the wife's PC upstairs. I should have spent a little more for Modular PS but I did not care to pay more for making it neater looking. I am wanting to run 7 32 bit but with the AMD quad I will run 64 bit. I just can't use some of the recording adapters I already have to store shows on the HD off the DVR. I did remove the old DTV DVR HD that has all the kids shows saved. I had to install a PCIE adapter I had extra SATA and eSata along with IDE as that HD was only 80GB and an IDE that was in the DVR. I will put it all together this Friday and let you know how it all works out. All in all, I don't think it is a bad system but figured I would get some input as I posted the prices along with the items and I can return them before opening them up. Thanks for any input ahead of time.
 
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windows 7 home premium 64, and Windows 10 64 bitI7 94012 GB Dominator 3 channel 1600Radeon R9 Fury Nitro
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Self made
OS
windows 7 home premium 64, and Windows 10 64 bit
CPU
I7 940
Motherboard
ASUS P6TX58D Premium- BIOS VERSION 1402
Memory
12 GB Dominator 3 channel 1600
Graphics Card(s)
Radeon R9 Fury Nitro
Sound Card
Z1
Monitor(s) Displays
50 Inch Panasonic TV
Screen Resolution
1920x1080
Hard Drives
Main drive OCZ Revodrive V2 and 8 TB multi drives
PSU
Coolermaster 1000
Case
CoolerMaster 932
Cooling
Coolermaster Dual fan
Keyboard
mx 5500 revolution
Mouse
mx 5500 revolution
Internet Speed
12 mb
Browser
Chrome
Other Info
set up for 3D Blue Ray applications with a surround room of 12 speaker Definitive Technology and multi amps, main is driven by yamaha M-65
Don't apologize for the spec's. It's a nice banging system. Good job.......short of not posting any pictures of the build.
 

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Gigabyte Geforce GTX 460 1GB SLI
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onboard
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samsung BX2450
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corsair tx750
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CM HAF 922
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