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[kilo2]

Thanks for all the good advice. I should start getting the parts soon. Crossing my fingers hoping everything goes together smoothly.

One last question. How hard is it to put a water cooling system in?

[CRYPTIC]

I would wait and see what your temps are going to be first. It's not hard just another $300 out of your pocket. If it were me I'd put it towards the build.

[BaldEagl]

One last question. How hard is it to put a water cooling system in?

Unless you're doing some serious overclocking (greater than 25%) you're fine on air as long as you have an aftermarket heatsink/fan and good airflow through your case.  I guess if you don't have air conditioning and indoor summer temps exceed 80F you also might want to consider liquid cooling but at that point I'd buy a window air conditioner first (for less money).

[captain1ma]

i would suggest a full tower with fans: i have almost the same set up as you are building.

XCLIO Windtunnel Fully Black Finish 1.0 mm SECC Chassis ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811103011

if you put an oversized heat sink into at mid-tower for the processor, you'll be luck if it fits.

[kilo2]

I really like that case thanks for the info.

?Now i have another problem. I know nothing about sound cards. I do not know whats good or bad. Any suggestions?

[68ZooM]

i have a question, why do you want a triple sli setup are you going to run 3 cards in the future? i have a dual sli with GTX280's i do very intense graphic cad programs for home designing, man i dont now what you would use a 3 sli'd setup for, if your planing on 3 you better get a power supply that is going to handle all that i have 2 cards and i went with a 1000 watt unit.Go with an Antec case you wont be sorry pleanty of cooling fans, 4 - 5" Fans and one 7 " on top, the airflow thru the case is outstanding

[oneway]

Here is a heck of a deal at Tiger...

Yes it doesn't include the 2.8 proc (2.6 instead), and yes it is not the fancy asus board...its the PT6

But for 890 bucks out the door...Asus P6T Intel Core i7 Upgrade Bundle - Intel X58 Motherboard, Intel Core i7 920, 12GB Triple Channel DDR3-1333 Corsair Memory

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4488089&CatId=4139

[Getback]

First build I have seen in a while. Like it all except, as others have pointed out, the power supply. OCZ or PC Power & Cooling if you can get it.

[oneway]

First build I have seen in a while. Like it all except, as others have pointed out, the power supply. OCZ or PC Power & Cooling if you can get it.

I have nothing but great things to say about OCZ power supplies...Enermax is good too...

Presently I am running a 1KW OCZ Modular (3 years old)...modular is great because you can remove the unnecessary cables and clean up the case...

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/power_management/ocz_z_series_1000w_modular

As others have said...you can never have too much power...

[BaldEagl]

modular is great because you can remove the unnecessary cables and clean up the case...

I can't remove my cables and my case is pretty clean:



But it took a few hours of drilling and routing wires.


BTW, as to sound cards I use a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Gamer Fatality Pro.  There's a slightly less expensive version at about $90.  They have their own RAM and totally unload all audio processing off of the CPU.

[Ghastly]

As others have said...you can never have too much power...

Actually, you can.  Ideally, a power supply (edit -> referring of course to the standard switching type power supply used to power computer equipment - there are many types of power supplies and different types behave differently with respect to loading) should run at about 70% of maximum load for peak performance and greatest stability.  A power supply that's running under too great a load can be unstable - but often, one that is loaded too lightly will be even more so.

Just FYI.

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[kilo2]

  Thanks to all who helped me on my quest to build a computer. I just finished and everything powered up and the motherboard is not showing any errors. Now just have to wait for my OS to come in and i will be shooting you all down on my new computer. Once again thanks for the advice.

[Bronk]

I also suggest you stay away from XFX cards, especially the XFX 5770

My card working flawlessly.