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Little update as I placed my order and finished the system up tonight. Fractal Designs Core 1000 Corsair HX650 PSU (Carried over from another system) Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z Z68 Micro-ATX mainboard Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3Ghz G.Skill Ripjaw X DDR3 1600 8GB Crucial M4 64GB SSD 1TB storage drive...

Yea, I don't plan to have much on it. The OS only and I'll likely use EWF once I get it fully configured; only disabling when updates are necessary. As far as applications, games, documents and media; they will all reside on the secondary drive (Eventually drives in RAID 1).

I wasn't a big fan of the TJ08, partly because of those exterior drive bays and the odd placement of the 3.5" one as well as believing that the tray was not removable. Newegg doesn't do the Silverstone case much justice, with few pictures detailing the unit. I looked at the other models on the...

Ordering memory today -- that's nearly a 35% from when I first saw it. None of Lian-Li's small cases impress me. They all lack the detail in design and thoughtfulness that their full-size cases tend to exhibit. None of them have the infinity handy removable mainbaord tray or have the...

I appreciate the thorough responses. I intend on going mATX, and would consider ITX if a decent board existed in that form-factor. So far the limiting factor is that none of the cases I've come across have proven to be as impressive as my trusty old PC-60. The Fractal Designs Core 1k looks the...

Thank you sir, in response to your request: 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc A: Mild gaming (TF2 / SC2), Mediastore (MP3's/HD Videos), Photoshop/AutoCAD and occasional browsing. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? While I...

Wow -- it is so over the top without looking that way at all. Very classy and thorough build. This may have been mentioned earlier, but what solution are you running in the loop?

I'm going to take my current system and freshen it up for my brother to use since he is getting more into gaming and the dog he is using now doesn't handle Team Fortress 2 very well. The current specs I've been enjoying for the last couple of years: Lian-Li PC60 Corsair HX520 PSU Abit IS7-E...