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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Adobe Master collection, 2d 3d Graphic design, Alot of gaming, Crysis, COD 4, WoW ,
COD5, Far Cry 2, etc Video Editing. Im looking for pretty top of the line products as it will need to last me for a good long while without many if any upgrades.

2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
I want to keep it under 5500 tax and shipping included

3) Where do you live?
Texas

4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
Im building from scratch so i need everything. Motherboard, CPU, RAM, Case, Power Supply, Hard drives, and cooling system. Id Prefer the system be liquid cooled.

5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model. None

6) Will you be overclocking?
Yes very much so

7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
2 24 inch 1080p

8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Within 3 weeks

9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc. I want SLI and from what i have been reading i want a raid 0

10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license?
Yes i do. My school offers it for free. Duel boot XP Pro and Vista business
 
A $5500 build won't last any longer than a $1500 build. With newer and better parts being constantly released, you're not going to see much of a performance increase from going with top-of-the-line parts as you would with the parts that we normally recommend here. Consider the Core i7 920, for example. People here have been obtaining high overclocks -- as high as 4GHz -- with this processor using air cooling. With that much potential in the entry-level Core i7 processor, many of us here consider it foolish to go with the 940 or the Extreme Edition 965.

Take a look at some of the more recent Core i7-based build threads here and piece together a few parts that you want for your system.
 
As I and what many others said in your last thread, considering your level of PC experience, I highly recommend against a water cooling system.

Here's a prelim build for ya:

$289 - Intel Core i7 920 CPU
$250 - Asus P6T Intel X58 ATX Motherboard
$180 - 2 x G.Skill F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ 3 x 2GB DDR3 1600 RAM
$360 - 2 x BFG TechBFGEGTX260896OCE GeForce GTX 260 896MB PCI-E Video Cards for SLI
$440 - 2 x OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX60G 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC SSD for RAID 0
$25 - Samsung SH-222F 22X DVD±R SATA DVD Burner
$150 - Corsair 850TX 850W PSU
$58 - Cooler Master V8 RR-UV8-XBU1-GP HSF
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Total: $1752 plus tax and shipping

Choose your own case. Some recommendations:
$65 - Cooler Master RC-590-KKN1-GP ATX Case
$70 - Cooler Master Sileo 500 RC-500-KKN1-GP ATX Case
$70 - Lian Li Lancool PC-K1B ATX Case
$80 - Cooler Master RC-690-KKN1-GP ATX Case
$80 - Lian Li Lancool PC-K7B ATX Case
$90 - Lian Li PC-7B Plus II ATX Case
$90 - AeroCool Masstige ATX Case
$90 - Lian Li PC-K6 ATX Case
$110 - Thermaltake ElementS VK60001N2Z ATX Case
$150 - Antec P182 ATX Case
$150 - Cooler Master HAF 932 RC-932-KKN1-GP ATX Case
$180 - Antec P183 ATX Case
$200 - Cooler Master Cosmos S 1000 RC-1100-KSN1-GP Full Tower ATX Case
$200 - Cooler Master ATCS 840 RC-840-KKN1-GP Full Tower ATX Case
$200 - Lian Li PC-V1100A Plus II ATX Case
$220 - Silverstone FT01-B ATX Case
$250 - Lian Li PC-V1200B Plus II ATX Case
$240 - Lian Li PC-A71B ATX Case
$285 - Silverstone TJ09-B Full Tower ATX Case
$320 - Silverstone TJ10-B Full Tower ATX Case
$330 - Silverstone Temjin SST-TJ07B Full Tower ATX Case
 
Or, listen to Danny Bui.

Are the monitors going to be part of the build itself? Or have you already purchased them? (If the latter, which ones did you get?)
 
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