new system advice

did they tell you why it would take that long?

you got stuff you don't need in there:

Here you go Ticket# 347553 --- Price: $4745 (To see this build click here) Price after current promotion $4395

Copy of Specifications:
Chassis Model: Digital Storm HailStorm
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Interior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz (Quad Core)
Motherboard: EVGA X58 3X SLI (Intel X58 Chipset) (Supports Triple SLI or CrossFire)
System Memory: 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Digital Storm Certified by mushkin enhanced (Highly Recommended) (Hand Tested)
Power Supply: 1000W Corsair HX (Dual/Triple/Quad SLI Compatible) (Silent Edition)
Card Reader: Internal Digital Media Card Reader (Black)
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (256GB Solid State (By: Corsair) (Model: CMFSSD-256GBG2D)
Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (1TB Seagate/Western Digital (7200 RPM) (32MB Cache) (SATA) (Extreme Speed)
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks
Optical Drive 1: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 20x / CD-Writer 48x) (LightScribe Edition)
Optical Drive 2: Blu-Ray Player/DVD Writer (Play Blu-Ray and Burn DVDs)
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: Razer Barracuda AC-1 (Recommended)
Extreme Cooling: H20: Stage 3: High-Performance Liquid Chilled FrostBite System For CPU
Liquid Color:UV Redish Pink: Medium Glowing Non-conductive Fluid (Requires H20: Stage 3 & UV Lighting)
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (UV) (Creates Glowing Effect For H20: Stage 3 UV Fluid)
Enhancements: - No Thanks
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Boost Processor: Stage 1: Overclock the processor between 3.3GHz to 3.9GHz (Requires Air Cooling Upgrade)
Boost Video Card: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
Boost Memory: Memory Fan Kit Only (Does not include memory overclocking service)
Tweak Windows: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition)
Restore Kit: Digital Storm Specialized Recovery System (DVD Image Based)
Virus Protection: - No Thanks
Office: - No Thanks
Benchmarking: - No Thanks
Install/Test Game: - No Thanks
LCD Display: Samsung 24 inch (Widescreen) (Black) (High-Performance Gaming Display)
Surge Shield: - No Thanks
Speakers: - No Thanks
Keyboard: Razer Tarantula Gaming Keyboard
Mouse: Razer Lachesis Gaming Mouse (High-Speed Gaming Grade)
External Storage: - No Thanks
Exclusive T-Shirt: - No Thanks
Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 5-10 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed
Warranty: 3 Year Platinum Care Extended Parts & Labor Warranty

1. Intel clocks their chips to whatever moderate standards they have,m it has nothing to do with how well the chip can do, a 920 oced to 3.8GHz will last you over 7 years, are you gonna even have this pc in 7 years?

2. at your res you have no need for crossfire with a 5870, you will get 50 to 60 fps with most games which means smooth gaming, adding another card will not bring any noticable differences, unless you play games like crysis and such.

2a. all gpus have fans on them, you never need LC, unless for some reason you are dealing with lot of heat that air can't handle.

3. no it does not, but most things should work in win7, and if needed, you can always just run a virtualization app like VMware to run apps in another os, and there is always just having xp and those apps in a separate drive, and just swaping drives, the hailstorm comes with 4 hotswap bays and is perfect for this kind of things.

4. you do want virus protection and a firwall but you don't want a bloated one, you want one of the best, thats why you want ESET Smart Security, it has a 30 day full free trial, try it first then buy a license after 30 days, its way better then mcafee.

5. get all those little things like ms office and your monitor and mouse and etc from a place like newegg so that you save money, they cost more here.

6. that is a good monitor, but I'm not a monitor expert, people that are good with monitors tho say that a sign of a good panel on a monitor is a monitor that has the same Viewing Angle, both vertical and horizontal, and above 170°.

hope that helped, if you have more questions ask away.

so they waterblocks for the gpus will take 3 month to come out? ouch, didn't know that.

wait koolance has a block for them here, why don't you ask them to use this block.

the EK blocks are out, and have been out for a while, the swiftech blocks are 2-3 weeks out for there top end ones, but the bottom end have been out before the cards were available. And who cares about koolance blocks.

Originally posted by justin.kerr the EK blocks are out, and have been out for a while, the swiftech blocks are 2-3 weeks out for there top end ones, but the bottom end have been out before the cards were available. And who cares about koolance blocks.

didn't know ek had theirs out, koolance is good too.

so with these blocks out, I wonder why they are telling people 3 month for gpu waterblock?

Edited by DST4ME - 28 Oct 2009 at 1:54pm

and if you don't like nickel here is a copper one.

standard spacing, so should be no issues with the water blocks?

the 762

now you have the 762?

The 762 will do four with water, just like the other board I told you would before you started.   The 762 also has the nf200 correct? or 2 of them?  so you will have some increased latancy, but will be running at 16x? can't remember.

but you need a 10 slot case  quote from Evga "Important note: a case with 9 or more expansion slots is required, 10 for 4-Way SLI. See this page for a list of compatible PC cases." 

Edited by justin.kerr - 28 Oct 2009 at 4:59pm

the corsair case 8 slot?  you can use 9 with mods, but 10 is needed without mods..

you are missing the top 2 slots taken up from above the one you are calling number 1. then the on you need bellow the one you label as 7  so 7 + 2 + 1 is 10

the slot you are calling 1 would be the 3rd slot down on a case.... rookie. lol so you need a 10 slot case without mods, or a 9 slot with a single mod on the botton GPU... plain and simple

no magic can make that work, without cutting more slots, and I don't know about room for you power supply. I have done it, but it is hard, an usually does not look perfect. Just go tri, or just wait for tri-fermi... lol

We're switching our liquid cooling system to all high-end parts soon:

Originally posted by Alex We're switching our liquid cooling system to all high-end parts soon: 1. Compression fittings 2. Replace Koolance with EK video card blocks 3. Chipset liquid cooling 4. Standard 240mm radiators 5. Swiftech high-end CPU waterblock   And, we will carry the ATI waterblocks sooner than we thought. There was some production delays with EK on them.

wow that is a huge upgrade.  the new swiftech waterblock is incredible.

Angled fitting are nice for some builds,  they are $$ but they can simplify some loops.