Thanks for the tip bigbird3121, have changed my memory to 8gb of the same memory as you now as the memory i intended to get was out of stock(even though it says its in stock on the website :-( ) that was a nice read teknology9 and was realy infomative and helpfull to me, was just wondering though if i would have to change much on the bios on my motherboard as i am running it as a HTPC?......Am still waiting on my mortherboard to get here (still out of stock and fingers crossed i will get it this friday) so still cant start me build yet :-( .if anyone got any more tips for guides to check out please let me know ...... just out of intrest if any one else whants to know here is the full spec of the comp i intend to build now..........
antec fusion veris remote black htpc case
AMD Phenom II X4 960T 3.0GHz 8MB 95W Black Edition
GA 880GMA USB3
Corsair vengence 8gb (2x4gb) CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B
Western digital 500GB caviar blue sata II AAKS (reused from my old htpc) will add a ssd later on when i can affford it
corsairvx450 psu (reused from old htpc)
sapphire radeon 4650 low profile (reused from old htpc) Will be upgrading this to a 6850 when i can afford it
pioneer DVD-RW 24X (DVR-S19BK)
Peak dual tv tuner card(was cheap on ebay lol)
Windows 7 professional
Thanks again for all your help so far