Spec'ing out my personal system

[Cutless009]

So time to build my personal system. Pushing all my funds into good hardware this go around, and bypassing water-cooling for now, just wanted to get you guys' opinion on the parts I had lined up:

EVGA X58 Mobo
i7 Nehalem 920
2x 3x2gb G-Skill DDR3 1600
Nvidia 295
Silverstone 1000w PSU
Promise Fast-Trak Raid Card
2x Fujitsu 147gb 15,000rpm SAS drives (for bootup/main drive raid)
2x Samsung Spinpoint F1 1tb drives (for onboard raid program installs/storage/other stuffs)
Hauppage TV Tuner Card
Anyware htpc remote
Lite-On Blue-Ray Drive.

Toppin out my budget with those retarded expensive SAS drives, but the seek times make me salivate :drool:

[Langer]

Does this mean there will be no 'Elegance'?

[Cutless009]

Does this mean there will be no 'Elegance'?

nope, my big builds are a business, I build them strictly to sell them, this is my personal machine that Im actually LOSING money on :-/

[zlojack]

You're not going to see much of an improvement over the rig in your sig with that build.

What are you running your quad at?

[Cutless009]

You're not going to see much of an improvement over the rig in your sig with that build.

What are you running your quad at?

Yes but I get to KEEP this one :up:

the Q9650 was at 4ghz till the pump died :down:

Man I was just reading up on the tech spec's of those SAS drives, 180mb/sec sustained read/write :omg: