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Kilamon · Rated XXX

What ram do you have?

I like your choice of hard drive. Grin

I have one of these andit is -quick- compared to my old ide drives. Plus, you can't beat the 5 year warranty from Seagate!

You might want to make sure that the DVD you're looking at is dual layer. If I had my choice of DVDRW drives right now, I'd get one with Lightscribe http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827101642 like that. Lightscribe is too cool for school.

Why does everyone get an asus? Get a DFI board. They have a forum at www.dfi-street.com if you have any problems or questions about the board. The support guy is a gamer (angry_games) and he runs that site as an employee of DFI. There are reps there from OCZ and other companies as well. There are even some custom BIOS versions. The SLi-DR board, the one I got, has support for 8 sata, 4 of which are on a SiL3114 chip which is capable of raid5. The other 4 are on the nVidia chip and can do raid1+0. It's a beefy board with lots of options.

I definately don't like your power supply. There're so many options out now for power supplies, and 500 watts alost seems the minimum any more. I picked up a 600w one by Ultra, but I guess you should probably research your motherboard and see what people are saying, especially from any support reps, about a recommended power supply. I know that for the DFI board, you need a floppy power, a molex, a 24 pin mobo connector, and the thin mobo connector as well. It's a lot of juice. Check out your board's recommendations though and make sure you have a solid one picked out.

I read a review that said he got one of those soprano cases and it was cool but the "toollness" system was less than toolless. My case truly is toolless, short of the motherboard. There are quite a few cases out there. Check out pimprig.com for some nice pics and reviews.