Liquid Cooling/Config questions.

disclaimer:  all of this is just my opinion.  Wait for a DS staff person to tell you how far off I am

That motherboard is fine for dual (or triple) GPUs, as well as that processor.

Drop the network card, it will do nothing for you.

I'm not sure what kind of power a dual liquid cooling system takes, but my instinct tells me that your power supply is major overkill.

If you want to save a little money, drop the overclock on the video cards.  Ultras don't usually overclock very well, as they are already overclocked GTXes.

Liquid cooling is great if you don't plan on pulling out your cards and swapping stuff around for a while.  Otherwise, it can make a simple upgrade into a test of patience.

SLI isn't really going to be worth it with a 19" monitor.  If you do go with SLI though, I would consider dual booting into Windows XP.  Vista SLI support is still shaky at best, and I personally have run into numerous headaches with my Vista SLI setup.  It's certainly do-able... but I wouldn't say hassle free.

Other than that, looks great.  Even if you don't change a thing you'll be fine I think... but you could save a lot of money and lose almost no performance if you made those few changes.


Edited by Mythius101 - 24 Feb 2008 at 4:23am

personally if i was running duel GPUs id go for any monitor that supports 19xx x 12xx or above rez. I think those start appearing on the 24in ones. They usually run anywhere from 400-700 bucks from where ive been looking.

no, there isn't any performance gain to go with SLi with anythign less than 1920x1280.