I've gone through so many PSUs before settling on this one... A Coolermaster (yeah, I know...) various Corsairs, Antecs, Silverstones... I've even had this very Seasonic on the list before.
In the end I think this 1000 is going to be a great choice for several reasons:
1. Stellar reviews.
2...
The Extreme 9 is getting excellent notes everywhere I look, but it will be a few weeks before I'm ready to buy, so in the meantime I'll definitely be keeping up with new developments on relevant fronts.
Thanks for the heads up about warranty. I've been buying Sapphire cards for good 10 years...
Full shopping list goes like this:
http://i.imgur.com/kqPsd.jpg
so you can see I'm kind of geared toward temp control and quiet running. I think the semi-passive cooling feature of it is interesting as well, could definitely shave a few decibels off the overall noise produced.
My bad.
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Gaming, overclocking, video processing.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
~$2,500 for the hardware, another grand or so for cooling.
3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell...
Gaming and video processing. Also, I intend to overclock it as far as I can (currently have a 4.2GHz Q9550). I'm hoping for 5GHz daily, with about a grand worth of watercooling in it.
Requesting input on my choice. Especially the RAM, and PSU.
I'd like to take this CPU to 5GHz, will the choice of components suffice? The whole thing will be watercooled.
I'm putting a 540mm radiator in that case, and the whole system (eventualy there will be another GPU in there) will be running off of it, of a single, split reservoir, with dual pump for redundancy.
Is there anything you'd change? And why?
Reservoir:
XSPC Acrylic Dual Buy Reservoir for Two...
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Gaming, overclocking, video processing.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
~$2,500 for the hardware, another grand or so for cooling.
3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the...