Lookin like a nice rig that, mate. What's your all in cost on that?

Helluva lot to play Solitaire. ;)

I'm of the envy.

Is your monitor going to be worthy now?

The jumbotron will be delivered tomorrow!

After I mail in 5 or 6 rebates, it is around $1100.

I plan to use my hd tv with a hdmi cable, but tony says I will want a monitor. Next bonus maybe.

Wow, that ain't half bad.

Pretty slick.

Are you sure about the i5? IIRC, thats a dual core, but each core can handle two threads. Don't ask me how that works. The i7 is quad core, my gamer friend swears by it.

And good call on the many fans and chunky power supply. My gamer mate had a system custom built, it all worked well except the power supply wasn't quite up to all the components and it had a tendency to overheat.

Great project for the lad to work on, too.

do you have all the cables you'll need ?

Don't know how this works, but the power supply came with 4 SATA pugs for the hrad drive etc, but there was another4-6 pin cable linking the SATA devices, hard drive and optical drive, together, maybe then to the mother board, this cable wasn't in with the new power supply, maybe it's included in with the hard drive.

I have not yet opened the hard drive boxes, but the power supply has a huge pig tail.

d'oh. I didn't get a sound card. There is a head phone jack on the mother board. Do I need a sound card, or is the one on the Motherbaord going to be sufficient?

On board sound is fine.

I want a solid state drive. I've also seen a spinning drive with ssd cache. Clever.

I wouldn't use the one on the mobo. Ya got all that other good stuff, don't start skimpin' now.


ETA: Listen to someone (besides me, I mean) who knows more. I've just had bad luck w/onboard stuffs.

I wouldn't buy an after-market audio card unless you intend to use the PC as a recording rig, or amp simulator, etc.

All the Vinyl to digital conversions I did with my music collection were done with the onboard sound card. They sound great. Mine was stereo. I assume yours is too. If it's mono, you may not be happy. (Our laptop has a mono onboard sound card and it sucks.)

He got a hot-rod motherboard, I'm assuming the audio is as good as human ears need it to be.