A big christmas gift...

1. not sure what you mean by life of ssd, with trim support and etc, life your ssd and its performance will be fine.

2. evga has much better support and these days I will take evga any day.

3. 1000w is more then enough for your use and future upgrades, just make sure you request and wait for the corsair.

4. we never know when they have sales, what the sales are and how long they last.

this is what you want:

Here you go Ticket# 367787 --- Price: $3309 (To see this build click here) Price after current promotion $3309

Copy of Specifications:
Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Cooler Master HAF 932
Exterior Finish: - Not Available
Trim Accents: - Not Available
Processor: Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz (Quad Core)
Motherboard: EVGA X58 LE Edition SLI (Intel X58 Chipset) (Supports SLI or CrossFire)
System Memory: 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Digital Storm Certified (Highly Recommended) (Hand Tested)
Power Supply: 1000W Digital Storm Certified (Dual/Triple/Quad SLI Compatible) (Silent Edition Highly Recommended)
Expansion Bay: - Not Available
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (120GB Solid State (OCZ Vertex Series Extream Speed)
Set 1 Raid Options: - Not Available
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (500GB Western Digital (16MB Cache) (7200 RPM) (SATA)
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks
Optical Drive 1: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 22x / CD-Writer 48x)
Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card: 1x ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Add-on Card: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio
Extreme Cooling: AIR: Stage 1: Noctua Dual 120mm Fans High Performance Cooler (Compatible With ONLY i7 Processors)
H20 Tube Color:- Not Available
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (Red)
Enhancements: - Not Available
Chassis Mods: - Not Available
Noise Reduction: - Not Available
Boost Processor: FREE: Stage 1: Overclock the processor between 3.3GHz to 3.9GHz (Requires Air Cooling Upgrade)
Boost Video Card: - Not Available
Boost Memory: - Not Available
Boost OS: - Not Available
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64-Bit Edition)
Restore Kit: Digital Storm Specialized Recovery System (DVD Image Based)
Virus Protection: - Not Available
Office: - Not Available
Benchmarking: - Not Available
Install/Test Game: FREE: Please include a free copy of a hot-selling game
Display: !PROMO BUNDLE: NVIDIA 3D Vision Kit (Samsung 22 inch 120Hz LCD + NVIDIA 3D Glasses)
Surge Shield: - No Thanks
Speakers: - No Thanks
Keyboard: - No Thanks
Mouse: - No Thanks
External Storage: - No Thanks
Exclusive T-Shirt: FREE: Digital Storm T-Shirt - Black (Large)
Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 5-10 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed
Warranty: 3 Year Platinum Care Extended Parts & Labor Warranty

Edited by DST4ME - 26 Dec 2009 at 1:33am

Oh another thing...she has got me doing laundry while specing out my comp on christmas day....is that just wrong or what?

My pleasure

laundry on xmas is wrong lol.

ok lets see

I think you may have a good point there, for 3d nvidia is the way to go.

in that case go with 2 x 275, you will get better performance and payless then 1 x 295.

as far as ssd, again with support for "trim" (kinda of a defrag if you will), the performance loss due to deleting files and etc is taken care of, with todays' ssds and proper firmware support, you should not get any performance loss, be sure you are reading up to date materials, and remember that all ssds are not the same, the ones offered here, ocz vertex, corsair and intel all have support for trim and are great ssds.

Ok...

*Shazaaam!*

It's Monday.

Whooohoooo James called me back and I am done!  System now in the works.  I am in geek heaven =)

HAF 932, that's the case I got.

New Asetek cooling option, I see.  They must have added that in the last week or so.

Sorry, my powers are recharging.  I'll be able to get around to it in about 6 days.

Monday is also when my rig is scheduled to arrive by mail.  Go monday!

Kind of have to celebrate New Years first, though. lol

DST4ME :: what's wrong with the 1250w psu? .. just curious.

Originally posted by DST4ME na the asetek has been there the whole time. for your case madmaligor the 932 is great. madmaligor I don't like your new config at all the 960 is pointless go with 920, you will never notice the difference. you want the corsair 1000w and not the 1250w. put your ram back to the DS certified ram, you have nothing to gain from any othe ram. asetek sucks drop it. you don't need the led fans, they are loud and will not make much of a difference, we like the haf cause it provides great airflow stock. drop the oc of video card, its pointless and just bring more heat, you won't see any performance gain from it. my build is a much more solid quality build then that new tick number you have.

check out this link .. i think the asetek and the corsair liquid cooling looks very similar.

the corsair is a re-badged astek

Very interesting vid, and a nice way to get cheap heat reduction...are the two companies linked?

Originally posted by philiporphillip Dell came up with a system around $1500 when i called. for a few more hundreds, DS was the better deal.

I had the pretty much the same thing happen with Dell...really its the quality and customer service here that convinced me.  Plus the warranty was 3 years standard, and I got a whopping 4th year for free in this weeks sale!  You just cant beat that.  If this system even comes close to expectation, I will be a lifelong fan as long as they are around.

Originally posted by madmaligor Originally posted by philiporphillip i think the noctua will be much better. i don't know if they're linked, but yes, forget asetek. It probably is.  Unfortuntely it doesn't come as an option in the special deal builds, at least not in the one I did.  So I didn't do to much research...which has me a bit worried now.

 

i haven't tested the asetek or the noctua, but from what i've been reading here in the forums, noctua is really popular both for its quality and performance. just check out youtube for noctua. the v8 i have is running my cpu great !! .. how much more will the noctua do? >,<

Originally posted by DST4ME Noctua is a little better and more quiet. @madmaligor a 1000w corsair will do everything you want, tri sli fermi, HDDs and etc, but it will do it more quietly and with less heat. the ram is under warranty so it will not make a difference. Noctua is better then asetek. don't say I didn't warn you

benchmarks do show ram difference, in game playing there will be no difference.

@madmaligor, ram is upto you but as stated above in gaming it will make no difference what so ever, I can put up charts that show fps with different ram speed and etc all day that show there is no difference, you might find a tiny difference in a game or two but thats about it.

at the end tho its up to you, if you feel comfortable with corsair then you can go with that.

so ram will make no difference.

the wait for corsair should be only a couple of weeks max from what I understand.