What parts should I get for an ASRock x58 Extreme motherboard

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Published on 2010-03-15T17:19:41Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 17:30 UTC
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I just received an ASRock x58 Extreme motherboard, for my post on this question. It was a 2009 Tom's Hardware recommended buy.

It is a Core i7 motherboard, with an X58 Express Chipset. It uses DDR3 RAM.

What I want to know is, what parts should I get to finish it off.

I'm looking for some good bargains, because of a lack of funds.
The most taxing game I will probably play on it is OpenTTD.

The only parts I currently have that are compatible:

A Dynex 400W power supply.
It appears to be an ATX 2.1 power supply, with the addition of a -5 rail. Apparently designed to be compatible with most ATX-style motherboards.
Several PCI add-in cards.
- Mostly 10/100 Network cards
- Some sound cards
- Some video cards with a VGA connector
Plenty of PATA drives.
- 8 GB - 80 GB Hard-drives
- A dozen or-so CD-ROM drives, only a handful of them are CD-RW drives.
- One DVD-ROM drive

I have one LCD, with a 15 pin VGA connector, which I salvaged from the dump. ^{_{The only thing wrong with it was some dead capacitors. It also has a stuck pixel.}}

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