It's been rainy, so work on the boat is at a stand still. I broke out the new computer case last night and started working on installing the power supplies for the fans. One thing led to another and I was up late following up the research I started last spring.

Hwere's where I am so far:

. I7 920 (I would like a CPU cooler)

. Corsair 850 W power supply

. Corsair Dominator DDR3 2000 Ram - 6 gig

. Corsair HD (either 80 or 128 gig - havent decided)

. Motherboard (3 still in the running)

1. ASUS Rampage II Extreme
2. ASUS P6T
3. Intel X58 ATX

. Graphics Card

Front runner is a single Radeon 5870 which I plan to upgrade to dual Nvidia 360's in a year or so.

. Sound card and opticle drive (anything on sale)

. Windows 7 professional 64 bit

Thoughts?

Sailus

is a sound card necessary, most likely the motherboard comes with a good sound card.

Also have you taken a look for the evga x58?

sailus wrote:
It's been rainy, so work on the boat is at a stand still. I broke out the new computer case last night and started working on installing the power supplies for the fans. One thing led to another and I was up late following up the research I started last spring.

Hwere's where I am so far:

. I7 920 (I would like a CPU cooler)

. Corsair 850 W power supply

. Corsair Dominator DDR3 2000 Ram - 6 gig

. Corsair HD (either 80 or 128 gig - havent decided)

. Motherboard (3 still in the running)

1. ASUS Rampage II Extreme
2. ASUS P6T
3. Intel X58 ATX

. Graphics Card

Front runner is a single Radeon 5870 which I plan to upgrade to dual Nvidia 360's in a year or so.

. Sound card and opticle drive (anything on sale)

. Windows 7 professional 64 bit

Thoughts?

Sailus
Post some pics.

If you don't already know the Asus rampage is not ATX. It's actually bigger.

ATX Form Factor
12 inch x 10.6 inch ( 30.5 cm x 26.9 cm )
* One inch greater than standard ATX form factor

Thanks Ryoma - im down to the p6t and X58 EVGA.

Also, since I'm taking my time building the rig, I may wait till NIVDIA releases the 3 series cards in January and get 2 360s.

sailus wrote:
Thanks Ryoma - im down to the p6t and X58 EVGA.

Also, since I'm taking my time building the rig, I may wait till NIVDIA releases the 3 series cards in January and get 2 360s.

Sounds great. Could you post pics as you build it?

ILl be happy to post pictures as I put the machine together. After laboring over specs last night I have decided to go with the Asus P6t Delux Mobo which seems to be the darling of overclockers.

Sailus