The Beast is Alive, pictures inside! (56k be ready)

After setting most of the stuff onto the motherboard:

The previous computer I had built was intel-based. The differences in the heatsinks were amazing! The AMD heatsink had a latch mechanism to lock it into place and was huge--heatpipes weaving in and out. Intel, however, uses a ridiculous brute force tab mechanism and is honestly puny (the one that came with the e8400 was anyway; solved that by buying the Artic Freezer Pro 7)

After setting everything into the case:


Cable ties make me happy


I was able to stuff all the extra power supply cables inside of the bay that holds the DVD drives.

AND VOILA! DONE! Everything took only about 40 minutes, and was stupid easy since I had built one before. To all those who may be questioning their ability to put one together--DO IT, the money you save, the performance, and reliability you gain is invaluable. You would have to smear a 9V battery along the motherboard to screw it up. Just read the instructions (I only glanced at it when I didn't know what to do)

All setup and running perfectly:


The side "tunnel" for the cpu isnt perfectly aligned, but the force of the suction can hold up a piece of printer paper.

Performance:

I have only installed Vista 64-bit, CS4, and a couple misc apps. This far, the performance has amazed me. I can open up photoshop in 4 seconds, and load a 1.5gb .PSD in 11 seconds. Creating a 37:1 panorama of 24megapixels took only 14 minutes! (which is really fast for those who don't understand) Multi-tasking is limitless, I even disabled my page file. For example, I was running itunes, defragmenting the hard drive, playing with photoshop, and watching Hulu all at the same time, with no noticable decrease in ANY of the apps. I plan on firing up a game once I find a good one, so that should be fun. Sad thing is, I only have 76gb of HDD space left

Questions I have:

The side fan/vent sucks air in, but the GPU blows air out (down). This makes me think that I should flip the side fan so it pulls air out, but since the fan blades are curved, the amount of mass of air moving would decrease (probably substancially). Is that a problem?
Also, what can I use to monitor the temps of everything? IE CPU, GPU
I plan to get a Western Digital Caviar Black 640gb HDD sometime in the future (or something faster or bigger), I don't want to have to install all of my apps and reinstall Vista if I don't need to. Is there a way to transfer everything without crippling performance or making everything unstable? BTW, I can backup the entire computer to an external HDD if that helps.

If anyone has questions regarding specific parts or whatever, just ask.

Thanks again for all the help you guys have given me!
I did this so you all could see the results of your help, and I've gotta say, the results are FANTASTIC!