Got it up in another tab. Ready to buy it.

what do you guys think?





CASE: New! AZZA Solano 1000 Full-Tower Advance Cooling Case w/ Dual 230mm Fan + Extra 3 Fans 420 Watts


CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-920 2.66 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366
CD: (Special Price) LG 22X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (Black Color)
CD2: (Special Price) LG 22X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (Black Color)

CARE2: Professional Wiring for All WIRING Inside The System Chasis with High Perormance Thermal Compound

FAN: CoolerMaster V8 Gaming CPU Cooling Fan (Extreme Silent Operation at only 22dBA + Overclock Proof)

HDD: High Performance with Data Security (RAID-1) with 2 Identical Hard Drives [+29] (1TB (1TBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD


MONITOR: 26" TFT Active Matrix LCD Display (Asus VW266H 26" (25.5" Viewable) Wide Screen Full HD 1080p TFT Active Matrix XGA LCD Display 1920x1200 w/ HDMI Interface)

MOTHERBOARD: (3-Way SLI Support) EVGA X58 3X SLI Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Mainboard Triple-Channel DDR3/1600 SATA RAID w/ eSATA,Dual GbLAN,USB2.0,Dual IEEE1394&7.1Audio

MEMORY: 6GB (2GBx3) DDR3/1600MHz Triple Channel Memory Module (Corsair Dominator)

NETWORK: Killer K1 10/100/1000 Gigabit High Speed Online Gaming PCI Network Interface Card

OS: Microsoft Windows Vista™ Home Premium w/ Service Pack 1 (64-bit Edition)


POWERSUPPLY: 1,000 Watts Power Supplies (Corsair HX1000W Power Supply - Quad SLI Ready )

SOFT: Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS LIFE-TIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

TEMP: Xion XON-MTR002B Color LCD Thermal Control Panel Display

USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports


VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX285 2GB 16X PCIe Video Card (EVGA Powered by NVIDIA )
VIDEO2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX285 2GB 16X PCIe Video Card (EVGA Powered by NVIDIA )

Getting back into gaming?!! Looks like a nice machine, should work well with whatever is out there. Nice power supply to extra cooling needs.

If you're going to get hardware like that, you might as well get a blu-ray player/burner in place of one of the identical DVD-RW drives.

My only issues would be why RAID1 and why dual optical drives?

The original ideas was a 1tb HD, but then I read that for speed considerations, you are better off with a 2 Raid - 0 HDs, but then I saw there was a danger with RAID 0 that if one HD failed, you lost everything on both, so I put RAID 1 because supposedly that wont happen.

Honestly... Im swimming in data here, and have no idea if I planned it out right.

The dual opticals? Cheapest option TBH. I suppose I should make one of them into a Blu-Ray though.

You'd be better off with a 1TB data drive and a 10k RPM boot/programs drive, if they offer that option. RAID1 will protect you if a drive fails, but it doesn't replace a backup. For a consumer system, it's really not worth the added complexity, overhead, added power draw, etc.

RAID is overkill for most any home system. Also, something to keep in mind, is that most Windows apps, games include, do not use more than 2GB of memory even if they're on Vista64. Depending on what you're planning on doing with it, 6G may not be doing anything for you. I've been pretty disappointed with the utilization on my 4G machine (for gaming purposes anyway).

The tri-channel stuff on the i7 means you're either getting 3gb or 6gb if you want best memory performance. Hence 6gb.

Who's doing it?

the L3 cache on the is VERY nice. Solid system.

i agree with above, RAID for home use isnt very needed. My friend swears by it, but he also will spend 17 hours tweaking settings to get a 5 point improvement on 3dmark.

Cyberpowerpc.com..

Should arrive on Wednesday

Opinion?

Buy me one.

Monitor in... tower in today!!!

Cannot wait!

You're a big kid at heart L2.

Looks similar to what i'll be putting together sometime in the near future.
I7 920 CPU
Asus p6 deluxe v2 motherboard
6GB corsair or kingston DDR3 1600 RAM
300GB Velociraptor for boot drive
Blu-ray burner driver
ATI 4890 Video card
Probably will get a thermalright 120 Ultra TRUE CPU cooler though.
Aside from having to put it together myself, it will cost about 1175 which i don't think is TOO bad for what you get.
(I have the PSU, case, keyboard, ect, already)
Going to try the Windows 7 RC for the OS i think and buy it if i like it when i can.