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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Gaming/Photoshop/video editing
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
2000
3) Where do you live?
NY
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
Mobo/CPU/RAM/PSU/HD/Vid Card/Monitor/Sound Card/Case
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
DVD drive
6) Will you be overclocking?
Eventually yes, with watercooling in mind
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
24" 1920x1080
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
this week
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
A motherboard that has support for CF&SLI
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license?
Yes

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Building a computer for a friend, this is what I've come up with for him so far, I'm having him hold onto his 8800gts until ati's come in stock or nvidia 300's come out. He is an asus fanboy, is this the best asus motherboard for him? And as mentioned he is going to consider watercooling as a future hobby.

Antec TruePower Quattro TPQ-1000 1000W Continuous Power ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC "compatible with Core i7/Core i5" Power Supply $170

ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer with NF200 LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard $230

CORSAIR DOMINATOR 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMD8GX3M4A1600C8 $260

COOLER MASTER COSMOS 1000 RC-1000-KSN1-GP Black/ Silver Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case $190

SAMSUNG 2494HM Glossy Black 24" 5ms HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor
Item #: N82E16824001337 $250

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drives -Bare Drive $110

Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield 2.8GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80605I7860 $280

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional 70SB088600002 7.1 Channels PCI Express x1 Interface Sound Card $160


Total $1650 giving headroom for video card
 
I'm sorry to say this but, I don't like that setup honestly. For $1,650 that doesn't look soo.. impressive and I will tell you why. For a $2K budget, I wouldn't settle for a TN monitor like that Samsung you chose. Plus, the 1,000 Watt PSU is really overkill. It's pretty silly to do Xfire for only 1920x1080 resolution.
 
honestly looks fine, depending on the graphics card you stick in there, I wouldn't necessarily suggest a dual GPU config, however nothing would be wrong with that (be it SLI or CrossFire)

the TN monitor isn't a bad choice if you're going to be gaming or similar, or just don't care, otherwise you'll probably get badgered into getting an IPS variant (personally I prefer VA based)
 
 
The parts themselves are good. But the setup altogether is horrible IMO for the price, as HardwareGuru noted. For that much cash, why not just go with the Core i7 920/X58 setup? $2000 is a high-end setup range, not the range the i7 860 and the P55 chipset was meant for. So I recommend either try going for a Core i7 920 setup or make that setup fit what the budget and usage scenario is was meant for.

Just ditch the Corsair Dominator RAM altogether and go with the RAM recommedendations that gwarren007 made.
 
Will those parts work? sure. Are they the best bang for buck? nope.

What features of that WS Asus board will he need that aren't included with the Asus P6T?

TPQ is old, get a TP New. 1kW is overkill, even for SLI/CF and the rest of the system you listed. For 1920x1200, a single HD 5870 would be fine, as well as a TP-650.

Dominators are always overpriced -- get regular XMS3 or G.Skill Ripjaws instead.

CavBlack 1TB uses 333GB-platters. Get a Samsung F3 or Seagate 7200.12 instead; uses 500GB-platters -- faster than the cavblacks. $2k budget and no SSD?!?! :eek: Sneak in an Intel X25-M 80GB or OCZ Vertex 60GB (or any 64GB indilinx drive you can find for under $175; http://ssd.alphaq.org).

Does he really need a soundcard? What's wrong with the onboard HD Audio?

Intel Xeon X3440 is $40 cheaper but only 266Mhz slower than the i7.860.
 
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