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Personally, the PhysX (assuming it doesn't die) will last longer than a video card. 300 is still way too much, I'd pay the "admission fee" of 200-250 because Ageia's chips aren't being upgraded every three weeks or so.
A-farking greed....premodded windows suck....because it's just corporate capitalization on people wanting to trick out their rigs....The square or rounded rectangle window is better than those damn swirly-shaped pieces of junk.
Oh, By the way.......if you think people are going to be content putting mini-itxes in there.....you are sadly mistaken.......People are going to be putting 3 micro atxs for serving, a mini-ITX just for chatting and a main rig for fragging. And judging by the looks,some of those harddrive cages...
I want that case........I could probably (getting creative) house....not two....but THREE computers in there (one main and two mini-ITX/mATX servers/media centers) all hooked up to a couple 300 gig harddrives. Or, I could.......have a low cost thermally efficient apartment for 300 dollars.
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Why the mockery? If you camp a lot, RVs are pretty nice to have, just don't park it in the driveway. I think since it's gonna be a semi-media center PC you should upgrade the audio a little bit to at least Audigy Two standards.
Having two vid card cores would not take a monstrous feat of engineering. The difficult and the impossible are two very different things. Putting them on the same die would actually reduce latency rather than increase, you'd have just about zero space between the two cores.
BigWater is a good kit with one exception: The coolant. If it's your absolute first WC setup, do yourself a favor and use something non-conductive before you kill the computer. Unless of course, you have a test-mobo.
Anything Lian-Li or the 3d Aurora. I actually think the aurora is somewhere between Lian-Li and xoxide.com in terms of "THE LIGHT, THE LIGHT, THE HORRIBLE LIIIIIGHT" factor. Gigabyte does have lights, but most of it is ambient. Lian-Li is minimalist, no lights, no windows unless you install 'em...