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No its not necessary, i would live some where theres alot of woodlands and small towns.

Yeah its dragging on right now!

How much money will you need if you want to move there and start life?

He probably trying to say something to the world in his own way.

Okay then ill go with the 8800gtx SLI. Thanks WhiskeyRomeo. I dont have much time to look around for anything more for my PC building. Busy moving out. I will have about 7 days of nothing to do so ill be online alot and lots of research. We are having a change over of command on the 30th August. After that then we going to have alot of free time. Those days are going to drag until we get our bird to fly out of this sandbox!

Hey Moose thats a nice case i did see that same on one of my magazines. Can you tell me about it? The magazine lists little about the case!

Okay still looking around some motherboards, PSU, RAM. I decided the e6850 processor then upgrade later. WhiskeyRomeo- I did look around for the power surges on the website you gave me and will probably get one soon. I dont use my computer during storms or we dont have hardly any power surges. Good power surge protector is a very good idea. Okay heres an update of changes of hardware and i need feed back on this. I was thinking of getting two ATI 2900 HD graphic cards and link them. I was reading reviews on this and they say that two of them linked is way better than one 8800 ultra in ram size, fsb speed, and pretty much everything else. The price is about 300 for each including tax thats all most same as the nvidia 8800 ultra card price. I know its going to take up space in the motherboard and wont really have room for more upgrades but its worth it until something better comes out by ATI or Nvidia! Anyways that much performance should keep you accupied for a long time before trying to upgrade or maybe im wrong? I dont have much knowledge on how the linking works so i need some user feed back or advice from any one that knows about it and how to do it. Pretty much any advice would be appreciated.;):D:D:thumbup:

Troffmeister good luck and i do want your feed back fast :)

SVK Fox something is missing :(

I was reading a whole article in MAXIMIUM PC magazine yesterday all about the heat production by the motherboard. They used a thermal imaging camera and it show everything that has max heat. In a diagram, color coded every inch of the motherboard in side a medium size case. Like you said the south and north bridge have alot of heat, they showed everything. Thank you for the link ill check it out and the motherboard. But i im going with e6850 processor just to let you know.

Reading Toms Hardware Article made me change my mind and ill be saving alot of money towards the new 3 core 45nm processor that intels got for us soon. But i wont buy it right as soon it gets out, i will get the most of my e6850 from overclocking and learn from it! E6850 processor i will be sticking with for sure!

Very nice case. LOL i know theres about millions of cases out there. My preference is easy installion of motherboards, lots of room to put fans, and cooling system and extra usb features, and probably more. Hey i need a better magazine to look out and ill do the internet when i get some more time. Thanks for the pictures though, pretty neat looking tower. I dont really care how much it weights as long it meets all the cooling and working room for my hardware ill be installing!

I changed my mind to Dual Core E6850 processor. I need feed back in what yall think of this. I know i just saved S*&% load of money :):):) I am for sure going to overclock! Oh will this make me need to find other motherboard than the Striker or Asus P5N-E SLI?? Hey once again thank you for all the support and advice. I am still looking over all of the links yall gave me. Now i can concentrate on MOBO, PSU, and WC.

CORRECTION!!! I posted something but i looked at some and had to erase this post because it dont go with what i just found out and changing to.

Oops but im dropping the quad core because i found out and some of yall probably mentioned this but quad core only supports applications and dont really overclock that much and most games use single threading which quad does not do that! WOW so this changes everything and im actually going for Dual core now. Which means i will upgrade as soon as the core 3 the Pen. comes out. I noticed that if you overclock then you degrade the life of that hardware. Does that mean the dangers of destroying it or does it mean the wear and tear on the hardware to loose the life quicker? Nevertheless i want water cool just incase i get into a situation where my room in the barracks looses AC, because my last deployment i came back and the AC was down and was down for a long ass time. It was miserable. Our barracks are very old and have constant problems. Its going to be a pain in how to install water cooling and other stuff. Its been a long time since i did this but i know it shoulnt be that hard to do it. Just need alot of time and patience to do everything correctly. From I read of articles in magazines and they almost every time stress the heat in all hardware and list alot of solutions. They say fan are not useless and there actually do a great job cooling. They also say that water cooling is expensive and worth having with the fans installed for safety of the expensive hardware. They say theres no need in water cooling because if you know the right procedure in how to install fans to do the proper way to intake air and push hot air out of the motherboard then you should have no problems of having major heat issues!

Im am still thinking and researching about the ASUS striker and Asus P5N-E SLI. Tough choices!

It looks like ill be going with the Qx6850 for sure. Cooling is not going to be on air for me. I am going to find water cooling.

Oh adding to my post up there Monitor looks like this ----> http://www.gsaamerica.com/samsung_lcd/214t.htm (Can i get some feed back on what you all think about this monitor?! :) And the Ram is going to be Corsair 2gig

CPU- qx6850 (20% probability of purchase, I need more time to think and research) Motherboard- Striker ASUS GPU- 8800gtx Ultra Operating System- Home edition Vista ( I will upgrade to Ultimate) Discrete Sound Card- X-Fi Fidelity SB HSF ? whats is that? Monitor- This is the one i got now--> PSU- I have not had but little research on this! Case- Still researching (looking for one that will fit water cooling system) Hard Driver- Ony one raptor hardrive with 200 or less gigs with 10,000rpm Optical Drive- I already have external DVD/CDROM all support for all formats Keyboard- Zboard Mouse- I got G5 logitec and im happy with it! HSF Thermal paste- I need info in what that is! I am so excited about this system and cant wait to build it. This is effecting me in not even using my laptop i got now. Its that bad.

[/qoute] The next you may want to ask: What does the price difference between the Asus Striker Extreme $300 and Asus ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium $210 mean?[/qoute] No its more like this: why build almost no performance difference with two different priceses. Are they trying to get people like me in buying a cool sounding "Striker" for 300 bucks? While theres a almost same board for less! [/qoute] What is the best way to spend $3-4K over the next 2-3 years to get the best gaming performance over that time? IMO the answer to that is to spend $2-2.5K now to get the best "bang for the buck" performance and in 18 months spend $1-1.5K to get an upgraded CPU and video card to drop into the system. Very good question and nice answer!

Im not worried about the cooling and power supply and mother board because i will be going all out on that. Meaning i will buy the best in what its offered in order keep my system not going nuts on me. Talking only processors is main priority here and i understand what you said Walternowi.

Another question whats the significant about the e6850 for 300 bucks with same 1333mhz and the QX6850 same amount of BUS for 1199 bucks?

I got a question can you overclock q6850 processor? If so to what level?

I am having a difficulty deciding in which processor to get. The reason why is because of the price and overclocking thing. I do want the most expensive processor because that will have me not worrying about overclocking trying to boost my performance and ill just have it the same. It would be great to have a cheap processor and overclock it but something is wrong with that i have a bad feeling. I can care less you if you have better system than me and i could care less if i do have better than others. Its just i want not have to upgrade soo soon. Hey thanks for the info im looking over it when i get time everybody. Very nice info guyz:D

Hey my roomate is building a system so he got a computer magazine and it was shown on the magazine of the ASUS Striker which i already read about and realized that the best thing out right now. So i already decided to go with the striker because 400 bucks is really cheap for that kind of a board that has support up to 8gigs of ram. So now i set my goal for the ASUS striker MOBO, 8800gtx Ultra graphics card (SLI compatible) my correction on the ram it is 2gigs not 3 for the corsair i mentioned in a post before. I talk with another friend here and he got him self a nice set up himself. Similar to mine but little bit not as powerful. He did have nicest cooling processor device that was huge looking inside the medium size tower. He told me that it was the best processor fan cooler out yet. So ill find out where he bought it and order it soon. I am planning to start ordering parts in September 1st. Only the major ones like MOBO, CPU, Graphics card, all rest im going to research little more. Hey Blaze gas prices are a monster back at the US, so im going to be in the barracks alot playing games and this system is going to be decked out because of it. Also I wont be just playing games ill be studying hard even though its going to be very difficult for me. I got a huge truck, which i made it that way when i bought it, you can say its my sweet heart because it is! Never will i own a car no matter what the gas price is. Safety is my main priority.