Having just upgraded to using SSD drives in RAID 0 on my newest computer for myself, I have to SERIOUSLY suggest heavily researching into the options and information available before you make the move. I'm not saying its a bad move, I'm glad I did it! I just am saying that I researched for several months to learn everything that I could on what it takes to maintain and set up a system on SSD and getting a good deal too!
The Intel SSD drives like you have chosen are an older model, the newer and higher performance being the X25-E models. There are many articles out there about how those older Intel SSD drives suffer from slowing down over time and a huge variance in speed. I would suggest if you are dead set on the Intel drives to check out the newer models as they have the firmware and memory type to solve this problem.
However, I also have to highly suggest that, for the price, you find something other than the Intel drives. Yes, they are considered the king of the mainstream desktop SSD drives, but they really aren't much more faster than the OCZ Vertez drives, which is what I ended up going with. One OCZ 120GB SSD is cheaper than one 32GB Intel SSD.
OCZ also has one of the best support forums for any SSD out there, and I learned multitudes from their site
here.
Next, I would highly suggest taking a look at the manufacturer's website for any motherboard that you choose before-hand, and make sure to check the tested or compatible memory module list. While yes, most memory of the right type will work with whatever, DDR3 has been pretty finicky with different systems. If you don't get memory specifically listed as compatible, while it may be recognized just fine, it may have ONE thing different with it and thus it runs at degraded or slower performance than a compatible memory module would run. I just found this out myself with my own computer. Installed 8GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR3 1333 in my computer and it was all recognized and ran fine, but I had some strange stability issues at first. Came to find out the motherboard automatically set the memory voltage to 1.65 volts when the actual memory modules require 1.8 volts.
i bought a Hitachi 500 gb 7200rpm HDD for strach dick it was a peice of junk stiill cant get my warranty.
try seagate they bought out maxtor which is the best. i satill have my quantium and will never part wiht it.
I also have to agree here, I've had no troubles with Seagate ever, and I've purchased numerous hard drives from them. Others lately have had some difficulties with Seagates they say, and yes their higher-capacity drives can have a faulty firmware. However, this firmware can be updated to fix the problem, and many of the drives shipping today already have the problem fixed. All four of the new 1.5 TB Seagate drives I purchased have fixed firmware and running without trouble.
And finally, for video cards, as generally graphic design work isn't incredibly taxing on the GPU itself more than CPU, the 9500GT may work fine for your needs. If you are wanting to run more than dual-display, you would require having two separate cards, as each card has output for two monitors. However, you also cannot put the cards into SLI configuration if you want to use three displays. SLI would basically just make one of the video cards slave to the other for use as processing power, so only the one card would actually do video-out, thus dual-display only.
Researching these kinds of little things can actually save you a bunch of hassle and headache later on, such as when your 30-day refund is up or before you even start ordering parts.
