Ultimate Gaming system.

My boss just asked me to spec out the most kick ass gaming system money can buy. He wants to play Supreme Commander at max res max eye candy at the highest possible frame rates. He told me to price out a Quad everything system. He wants the QX 6700, and 4 Ultra Top End Video Cards. I will also need to recomend a Mobo for him. Anyone know of a good Mobo for this, and which Video Cards to purchase? Please let me know asap as he wante me to order it today.

He doesn't need 4. He just wants 4. I have been doing some legwork as well and here is what I have come up with so far.
qx6700 - $1294
evga 680i - $304
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 600MHZ 768MB (times 2) -$1654
Seagate Barracuda 320Gb Sata II HD (times 2) Raid 0 - $236
Seagate Barracuda 500Gb with External Enclousure - $257
BFG Quad SLI ready Powersupply 1000 Watt $449
OCZ Platinum XTC REV.2 PC2-6400 2GB 2X1GB (times 2) $472

Just need a nice looking and functional case for it to go into. He doesn't LAN party or anything so it will be pretty much a static display on his desk.
Keep in mind these are Canadian prices off of NCIX and I am still under his budget of $7000.

I just ordered it, and here it is:
SKU Product Description Qty Price Ext. Price
21594 EVGA Nforce 680I SLI Motherboard & Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Retail Bundle 1 $1,593.97 $1,593.97
1 x Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Quad Core Processor Kentsfield LGA775 2.66GHZ 1066FSB 8MB Retail W/ HSF
1 x EVGA Nforce 680I SLI LGA775 Conroe ATX DDR2 2PCI-E16 2PCI SATA2 RAID Sound GBLAN Motherboard

23201 BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC2 626MHZ 768MB 2.0GHZ GDDR3 Dual DVI-I HDTV Out HDCP DIRECTX10 Video Card 2 $859.95 $1,719.90
18409 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA2 3GB/S 7200RPM 16MB Cache NCQ Hard Drive 2 $98.98 $197.96
18413 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB SATA2 3GB/S 7200RPM 16MB Cache NCQ Hard Drive 1 $172.98 $172.98
17167 Vantec Nexstar 3 External 3.5IN SATA Black Hard Drive Enclosure USB2.0 W/ Power Adaptor & Stand 1 $52.89 $52.89
21178 BFG 1000W Power Supply ATX V2.2 EPS12V 20/24PIN Quad SLI Crossfire Ready 1 $429.95 $429.95
15422 Antec Sonata II Black ATX 16IN Mid Tower Quiet Case 3X5.25 2X3.5 4X3.5IN 450W Air Duct 120MM Fan 1 $102.99 $102.99
19337 OCZ Platinum XTC REV.2 PC2-6400 2GB 2X1GB DDR2-800 CL4-4-4-15 240PIN DIMM Dual Channel Memory Kit 3 $224.98 $674.94
23236 Supreme Commander (PC Game - OEM DVD-ROM) ** Intel / EVGA Promo Bundle Only ** 1 $0.00 $0.00
11843 NCIX Heavy Duty Shipping Box 1 $5.99 $5.99
Shipping & Handling: $120.69
Shipping Insurance: $148.55
SUBTOTAL: $5,220.81
PST(7%): $365.46
GST (6%): $313.25
TOTAL: $5,899.52
Sorry about the ugly Cut & Paste Job.

I have owned many Raptors in the past myself. I don't know if it's my luck (if it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have none) but all of my Raptors went Kaput, and I haven't had a single hiccup with the Barracudas at all. I like the looks of the OCZ RAM and besides he won't let me overclock it He liked the Sonata case. Meh!! To each his own I guess. Hell I still like the looks of my Lian-Li case over any of the new ones out there.

To be honest they looked pretty darn similar feature wise. Plus the EVGA combo that I got came with a Free copy of Supreme Commander!! Yay!! Now I get a copy of the game too!! LOL If it wasn't for me wanting that damn game I would have gone with the Striker Extreme. I am a fan of Asus boards, and have had nothing but them since my AMD K6-2 days!! I'll post pics of the build as well as screenshots of the benchmarks on my site compucorgp dot com when it all comes in.

You talking US or Canadian funds?
Also why the Watercooled cards? He doesn't have watercooling so no need for the cards to be watercooled. (essentially same as what I got - the watercoolers)
Mobo is the same
Your HD's are better spec wise. Oh boy like you will notice much difference in real world performance.
I think the BGF PS is better then that.
I agree on the case, but the Sonata is what he wanted.
The OCZ RAM looks way nicer then that Patrior stuff. Nearly identical specs, so I'll take the Eye Candy myself.
Aftermarket cooler. I agree, but again he said didn't need it. "It comes with a cooler that's designed for it, and besides. I'm not overclocking at all" :? Meh. What do you do??

Don't need OS. Already has Vista Ultimate. I know I know YUCK!! But he wants DX10 capability, and always has to have the "Latest (and sometimes not the greatest)" I would have stuck with XP -Pro myself.

yeah.. but I still have better components for cheaper... and you could get next day w/newegg.

As for his vista.. does he already have that on a machine? Because you can only reg a copy of an OS on one machine...

Heh.. I know all about that.. I was interning at a company where they were making massive upgrades and making sure licenses were legit.. it gets freaking ridiculous.

The parts are perfect.

Where I disagree is about Vista. If he wants to play Supreme Commander, Vista will at least let him enjoy Dx10 in the short future. Go, like I did, dual-boot. XP Home and Vista Home Premium, 64-bit for the later ideally. Or, in other word, XP for the oldies, and Vista for the future. That's what I did and I'm so glad I did it. There is already a few thing that I miss when I have to go XP. Superfetch is one of them, it make my Vista even more responsive than XP. Whenever one game suck at Vista, like new STALKER according to some review, I just go with XP. Your bos will thank you for this in a year from now when he'll play Supreme Commander with DX10 patch

Also, if he has so much money, and doesn't like opening his PC for upgrade, go with 4GB DDR2.

It is 4 Gigs. The RAM is 2 units of 2 Gigs each. I myself run a triple boot system. Win XP32, WinXP64, and Vista Business. I have to have a platform where I can do Quality testing, and compatability testing before anything goes onto my production network. We have the licenses for him to do a Dualboot (His Alienware gaming laptop finaly croaked & it had XP-Pro on it) so I may transfer over from that for his XP, and then install the Vista as well after reading that article that AdonSage posted up.