NowYou'rePlayingWithPower
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Well, he accepted my offer. Eventually this behemoth of a pc will make its way to me and I can swap out a lower priced board, cpu, and ram and be off to the races. I'll get to install my Windows 10 and upgrade for free and have a computer that's ready to rock, but inside of a rack
You may or may not already know all of this but a Windows license is tied to the mobo it's originally installed on. Kinguin has legitimate licenses for cheap if you ever need an OS. If you go 13th or 14th gen intel make sure to update the BIOS ASAP as there were a nasty few bugs on older BIOS (though it may ship with most recent and you won't need to). Whatever direction you go stick with memory that has the lowest CAS latency for the generation more than concerning yourself with speed.
RAM modules in pairs (dual channel memory) are also technically better (vs the one in the budget option I have in the build above), as up to the point where you fill half it will be slightly faster as the work will be split between the modules. An analogy is like think if you have 2x8GB RAM modules for a total of 16GB, you basically have 2 card dealers dealing you cards at the same time until you surpass 8GB of usage vs 1 dealer with just a single 16GB module no matter the usage. These things aren't going to be noticeable for day to day, but important for audio latency/feedback to the end user.