Here's my new rig...what do you think?
 

Looking for advice...I've purchased much of it, but would happily replace anything in here that wouldn't be top of the line. Thanks for your advice in advance!

Case: Lian-Li 6070 ATX
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
CPU: AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-55 Processor
RAM: Corsair TwinX XMS PC3200 (2 GB)
Power: TruePower 550 Watt
Heat sink: Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu
Hard Drives: WD Raptor SATA 10000 rpm 74GB X 2 in Raid 0
Hard Drives: WD Caviar SE SATA 7200 rpm 250 GB X 2 in Raid 1
Optical Drives: Plextor 7116SA and Pioneer DVR-A08XL
Video Cards: BFG GeForce™ 6800 Ultra OC™ X 2 (SLI)
Sound Card: Creative SOUND BLASTER|AUDIGY 2 ZS
Speakers: Creative Inspire™ T7800 7.1 speaker system
Monitor: Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24-inch Wide Aspect Flat Panel LCD Monitor
Keyboard/Mouse: whatever

Let me know what you think...and if I could improve upon it.

Rind

oh that puppy is gonna kick butt with anything, ANYTHING

http://www.techwarelabs.com/communit...ic.php?t=10952

Since you're going OMFG high end with everything, I would step it up with the speakers a touch.. I have the 6.1 inspires, and they're good, but not GREAT like everything else in that comp...

creative megaworks or klipsch ultras are good

for the mouse, I recommend an mx1000.
Keyboard is really all about preference...

Wow, nice system, very nice. You could maybe go with a more powerful power supply, especially considering the 4 hard drives and 2 video cards. If you're going kick-ass with everything you my aswell get a kick-ass power supply :biggrin:

I have a truepower 430 and I have 2 HDs, a dvd burner and a video card (among fans, audigy 2, etc...) and i'm just fine.. I bet 550 will be quite enough.. the weakest link is in his speakers, ram (pc3200 instead of say 4000+), soundcard (audigy 4) or mousepad (he didn't choose one yet) at this point.

True true, I'm just saying he could get something a little better to match everything else being awesome on his system hehe. Rind, Do post some benchmarks if and when you get the chance. :)

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Thanks for the advice. I'll look into the speaker upgrade. I haven't been much of an audiophile...these are 7.1 so I'm sure I won't notice much of a difference between them and a $300 set...but I'll look into it nonetheless.

Once I have it completed, I'll post some benchmarks. Where do I get the software to run benchmarks?

Also: where would I get a better powersupply? I've noticed that 600W is about the largest around. Is there something better than 550?

Rind

Thermaltake makes some nice power supplies. Something like this.. http://www.thermaltake.com/purepower...0049atx12v.htm would be awesome.

As for benchmarks you could check out www.futuremark.com and get 3dmark2005, and/or PCMark etc. You could also just do some benchmarks on some games like Doom3 and Farcry or something.

i dont know.. i have to definitely recommend the Klispch Promedia Ultras... they sound AMAZING

$$$ though... and i've heard some concerns about reliability..