3K System

So I'm building my 3rd pc and here is the link

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/ [...] r=14738688

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: 14 AUG 09

BUDGET RANGE: US$3k

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Gaming!!!!! surfing the web and movie(U.S. Blu-Ray)/anime watching

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor (it's Westinghouse L2410NM). Note monitor will be replaced a few months later...

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: (newegg.com)

PARTS PREFERENCES: Nividia and Intel

OVERCLOCKING: Maybe (never attempted)

SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Yes / No / Maybe

MONITOR RESOLUTION: (1920x1200)

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Needs to play Blue Ray (I normally get the blue ray version). I'm unsure as to get a blue ray burner as the disk are little expensive... Is the 2TB hard drive over kill, I tend to store large video files and leave games installed? Note I want the windows 7 upgrade coupon and DirectX 10. Also keep in mind I don't care much for sound quality...

get 2 EVGA 02G-P3-1186-AR GeForce GTX 285 Superclocked Edition 2GB wich will be almost as good as 2 295s for a board try the EVGA E760 CLASIFIED an 2 Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB in raid0 wil be a better option an that cpu cooler is a joke for an i7 get a cooler master v8 or v10

ditch the memory for some cheaper low latency DDR3-1333, probably same (maybe even better) performance the the DDR3-2000

for movie/anime watching you don't need a blu-ray burner, hell you probably don't even need blu-ray at all (anime looks fine in SD though better in 1080P)

get a Corsair 1000HX, it will be plenty (actually over kill, at hardware secrets it has the same internals as a thermaltake 1500w)

2 x GTX295 is too expensive, go for 3xHD4890, even with a 30" display (2560x1600 res) you would have enough graphics horsepower

and try to find some combo deals

btw, you should look into getting a 30" display for that build, you could probably knock off $1000 to get it (2xGTX295->3x4890 thats $600 right there, and quad graphics doesn't scale well at all)

although if you switch the HDD's to 2 x WD Black 1TB get a WD Black 640 for the OS, you don't want the OS on the raid, if something goes wrong you can't diagnose it with the OS installed, you would have to use a Linux live cd or something of that sort

also don't forget to backup your data with a raid-0, with a single failure you could lose everything on the raid

Also question did you mean
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or this

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with this bracket
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