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Wow,

First off let me say thanks for the huge number of responses.

Originally Posted by martin_metal_88

I am just wondering. why don't just put a 965?? you will be sure to have a great quad that allow you OC instead of buying a fake quad that you are not sure how it will perform.You could also only use 4GB, exept if you want to do Virtual machine 8GB is totally useless. I see no case in your build. Have you look into some already or re-using a old one?

The preliminary reveiws of the 555 show it to be very likely to unlock and OC. I do not feel the extra money is worth it. As for 4 vs 8 i will need to look into it more, I thought a 64 bit OS could utilize it for encoding and such though i will mostlikly need to run xp on here too.

Originally Posted by MarkOne

I question the 2 blues drive in raid 0 for a little more than $ 100 you are in the SSD age

I was under the impression these are the drives that if partitioned to 100GB on the short end are near raptor performance. I am unsure as to wether i was going to do raid but the idea was to use this as a games drive once i add SSDs.

Originally Posted by Raserei408

Okay, here's my input:
If you're willing to buy a second 555 if the first doesn't unlock to a quad, just get a 955 or 965 and OC from there.
Swap out the motherboard for a 790FX-GD70, since it can run up to 4 cards (dual-slots even).
I typically don't recommend the HX750. Either save some dough and get the TX, or go all out and get the HX850.
Don't bother with 8GB of RAM. Get 4GB, and if you really feel like you're maxing it out all the time (unlikely) get 2 or 4 more.
The storage Caviar Greens are good, but only if you're using them only for movies, music, etc.
For the OS drives, get Caviar Blacks. They're faster, if a bit more expensive. However, I do recommend looking at some form of parity for them, since you'll be putting programs on them too. If you can add in a third for RAID 5 or back them up on your storage drives that would be best.
By the 6-port 5870 I assume you meant the one with 6 DisplayPorts on it? Here's the thing. You're not going to be able to play any games on six monitors with only a single 5870.

Oh, and the term is "hexa-core."

If the first one does not unlock it will be sent to live in the basement as a sever.

I am not sure i need 4 slots, i was think i may need 5879x2 at one time and the 9800gt as Phys-x but even then i would only need 16-16-8...i think this board does 16-16 or 16-8-8...neither would be suited so i may need to look into other boards.

Thanks for the Power recommendation...stuff always leaves me wondering. I will look into it.

So that's two that think no go on the 8GB, maybe i will have to see and if not put the spare in the basement too

The greens are stated as storage only.
I will relook at the hard drives...really i only just quickly grabbed the blues with out looking into it much.
I have thought about raid 5 but most say on the chipset raid is it not recomended and the budget does not allow for a raid card just now.

The plan is to play games on 3 monitors with one extra providing maps or kills or something. A 5 with add my TV to play movies while surf or not playing games. number 6 is a spare.

I prefer the Latin sexa to the Greek hexa no matter how squeamish it makes IBM.

Sorry i got no time to finish just now...off to work but i look forward to coming back later tonight to scour the forums.

Thanks again for all the info so far.