Best for $2500

Here you go Ticket# 476362 --- $2229 (To see this build click here)

Copy of Specifications:
Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Cooler Master HAF 932
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz (Quad Core)
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth X58 (Intel X58 Chipset) (Features USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s)
System Memory: 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Digital Storm Certified Performance Series (Highly Recommended) (Hand Tested)
Power Supply: 1000W Corsair (Dual/Triple/Quad SLI Compatible)
Expansion Bay: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (80GB Solid State (By: Intel) (Model: X25-M MLC Edition) (Extreme Performance)
Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (1TB Hitachi/Seagate (7200 RPM) (32MB Cache)
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks
Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x)
Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card: 1x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1.2GB (Includes PhysX Technology)
Add-on Card: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio
Extreme Cooling: AIR: Stage 1: Noctua NH-U12P SE Dual 120mm Fans High Performance Cooler
H20 Tube Color:- Not Applicable, I do not have a FrostChill or Sub-Zero LCS Cooling System Selected
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (Red)
Enhancements: - No Thanks
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
Boost Processor: FREE: Stage 1: Overclock the processor between 3.3GHz to 3.9GHz (Cooling Upgrade Recommended)
Boost Video Card: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
Boost Memory: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my memory
Boost OS: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition)
Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows 7 CD)
Virus Protection: - No Thanks
Office: - No Thanks
Benchmarking: - No Thanks
Install/Test Game: - No Thanks
Display: - No Thanks
Surge Shield: - No Thanks
Speakers: - No Thanks
Keyboard: - No Thanks
Mouse: - No Thanks
External Storage: - No Thanks
Exclusive T-Shirt: - No Thanks
Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 5-15 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed
Warranty: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 3 Year Limited Warranty

you can do the above and be left with about $300 for the monitor, or instead of the 80GB you can go with 40GB ssd, price: $2102 now you are left with $400 for monitor. I think 40GB is too small, the setup is suppose to be like this:

HDD1 = fast small drive: os/apps/games

HDD2 = regular large drive: media/personal/work file storage

I think you gonna need more then 40GB to put the games on there too, its important to balance out the performance, so you gonna want your apps/os/games on the ssd. But if all you want is 40GB then go for it.

now either way, get yourself a 24" ips panel like the Dell UltraSharp U2410 or HP ZR24w, many people have gotten these and love them, the dell supports more color if I remember correctly, other then that they are both great, and they run between 300 to 500.

this pc can run that res for you and if you see you need more power in gpu, then add just add another, the power and etc is already there for it.

you can always just go with a 1TB HDD now and then upgrade to ssd later.

Just saw your ticket, not good, this is much better, the corsair psu has a 5 year warranty, and you don't want the asetek cooler.

Edited by DST4ME - 06 Jan 2011 at 7:49pm

Is it worth uping the motherboard to the sli for future video card upgrades?

My pleasure

Let me tell you that you should never take anybody's word for anything, always do a lot of research, tho I am honored that you would take my word, it does mean a lot.

the mobo has 2 x 16x pci lanes already, that with 2 cards installed.

if you want a mobo that can do 3 x 16x then we have to look at the 4x classified, which is really not necessary, with the mentioned monitors, if you have the need another 570 can cover whatever you got, but I would first play and see if I even need the second card to begin with.

as Jayhawk mentioned the system has the 1000w corsair psu, and the sabertooth, all you need to run 2 cards in 16x, 8 x makes very little difference just fyi.

if you have anymore questions then ask.

Just about all mobos are sli ready, all dont' run 16x on both lanes tho, some run 16x and 8x which is just fine still.

My pleasure and good luck

your mobo has lan ports already, the wireless will add that ability, so you have a lan port on mobo already, I'm not sure if the wireless has a lan port also or not.

edit all that other stuff, forum does not support any extra curricular activities

extra fans don't help with dust, if anything they could make it worst.

just use filter and clean the pc once a week, it should take just a few minutes if you do it once a week.

Its full already? lol, you got all the personal/media/work files on the 1TB HDD? if yes then you have 2 options.

go raid (2 x 80GB), you will have faster speeds, but you will need to reinstall everything.

or

you can add the second 80GB ssd as HDD3, and continue to install apps and games on this ssd and still enjoy ssd speeds. Here you don't reinstall anything.

or

you can get a 160GB intel ssd and use that for os ssd and use the current 80GB as HDD3, this one seems wasteful but it is an option, you don't reinstall anything here, you just clone the current ssd to the new ssd.

2. Not sure, but if its doing this now, then I would find the problem and then move forward with multi monitor.

Question 1. If you have another monitor lying around try watching the same cinematic that is giving you trouble with this one and see if the same problems occur. If it doesn't you know it's a faulty monitor.
2. Putting in a second 570 is straightforward. Put in the second card, put on the SLI bridge, and connect the appropriate power cables from your PSU. Done.
3. DST has a cloning guide lying around somewhere that I'm sure he'd be happy to link for you, and all you have to do is rearrange your boot order in your BIOS to make sure your PC boots off the new SSD.
~~ Keep in mind if you get a new 160GB SSD there's no real reason to clone your old one to it, you could just use it as a third hard drive for additional SSD space, and just keep booting off of the 80GB. Unless I'm missing something it seems pointless to switch that around. ~~

Edited by Qwann - 25 Jan 2011 at 11:11pm

I will be there is a lot of space taken up with the browser download area and the user profile. You may be able to recover a lot of space by changing those.