Quote Originally Posted by guinness View Post
your motherboard supports triple channel memory.why are you only going to put 8GB on a triple channel setup and how?i'm sure you could only use two channels,but why spend the money for a triple channel setup board?you would bew wasting useable bus speed.why not do something like 9GB,12GB,or even all the way up to the maximum supported 24GB?if you're building a workstation unit,then RAM and processing power are of the highest importance and a great video card if you're working with videos and/or pictures.what are you building this workstation for exactly anyways?
So if i were to do 6x2gb of ram then i would be using all three channels, correct? Does the processor ok, or should i up the ante a little? The FX3800 is all i am willing to do on the GPU end, autodesk sent out a nice discount for the FX line of cards, so i will be taking advantage of that.

This is a cad workstation.