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[AC9breaker]

Yeah, after years of saying I was gonna do it, I'm finally doing it. Building myself a PC. I've been trying to read up as much as I can on stuff and have been browsing newegg speculating. Anyway, I figured this would be more productive if I got some input for you guys. Primarily this is gonna be a gaming PC, but I at the very least want this PC to be relevant for 5 years, and I'm gonna be using it for more then just gaming. School, musings, w/e. Possible I'll be leaving the PC on for long periods of time so maybe cooling will be a factor?

I like me some nVidia chips and I'm not planning on overclocking (yet) so intel is fine with me. Any ESD precautions I should take and such would also be appreciated. I'm planning on working with a 900 dollar budget for the rig itself. But it's flexable. So... show me ya moves!

[AC9breaker]

So now I can finally say, I'm totally done. My 750i FTW model mobo came in today. Got it set-up. Put in the CPU, did a little prayer and jumped with joy when all signs where go. Hopped on Dawn of War 2 and was totally floored how great the improvement was. Batman Arkham Asylum ran fantastic, and overall it's just been screaming with all applications I've been doing granted I haven't been doing much. I'm sure I still have a copy of Illustrator, Photoshoop, Go Live and a bunch of other adobe programs somewhere, so looking forward to get back into that too.

Now for some Misc. questions. Overclocking, what should I know?

Sli, do I need two videocards of the model?


Thinking of using my old PC as back up, any one have anything more interesting I could try doing with it?.