What I think is a good pc.

Ok the first time I did this I timed out wile posting so I will make this short. I am constently building up my pc and my friends pcs. I put all of it together and will post picks later. Some of my specs:
Q8300 stock
4Gb RAM
9800 GTX+
5HDD totaling 1.7Tb
antec 900 case

The rest of my specs are on my profile. I would like to be part of the SBCC. Thanks.

Nice machine you've built there, welcome to the club.
You'll get the icon when the admin sees your post, might be a few days depending how busy he is.

Thanks Calum. I hope to upgrade my video soon but I will Wait until the 260 and 280 go down in price and i will eather sli the 260s o get a 280 and buy a second one later. I will be getting some fans that work with my fan controller soon (the stock 900 ones wont work with it and I want to be able to increase the fan speed only when I need it). And when Tiger direct has them in stock my replacement drive will be sent, but that may be a month or two. When do you think they will have win7 up for os selection. Hope it's not all of the way on Oct. 22 when it is released. I preordered 3 copies.

How about a GTX275 instead of a 260 or 280?
Don't know about over there, but here the 275 is hardly more than a 260 and the performance is close to a 280.
I highly recommend Scythe Slipstream fans (you might have some in mind already) - I have the 1200rpm versions and they're very quiet, the 1600 or 1900rpm versions push a lot more air but are noisier, probably better for you if you're using a fan controller.  The stock 900 fans are pretty bad IMHO.
Don't know about Windows 7 myself, someone else may do.

I'll take a closer look at the 275 so thanks for the suggestion. You are the one heading up the folding@home thing on this sight right? I will be setting that up tonight or tomorrow.

I'll take a closer look at the 275 so thanks for the suggestion.

You're more than welcome.

You are the one heading up the folding@home thing on this sight right?

Actually, technically it's the site administrator heading the team, as he created it and it's his site etc.  I just contribute to the team as much as possible.  I'm quite passionate about it because I think it's a great cause, hence the signature etc.

If you need any help getting it going or have any questions, feel free to ask in our folding@home board.  Hope to see you on the team soon!

Nice computer! Thats a lot of hard drives!

Ya. It is a lot of hard drives. It started with a 100 and two 300 gig hard drives and i just added two 500s not that long ago. I'm running win 7 RC on the 100 for now but when it comes out I will put it on one of the 300s and make the 100 an external. I hope to find an external case that has both esata and usb so i can use it in any situation. My motherboard only has 6 sata ports so when I get my sata disk drive they will all be full and the south bridge will burn my skin off if I touch it. If I touch it now I can only hold my finger on it for a second or to depending on how idle they are. I have a good third party cooler on my CPU so I have bean looking into possibly water cooling my south bridge and video card. But I think I will wait to water cool my next upgrade witch will be a nice I7 system, but that is a LOOOOONG way off.

Maybe look into some aftermarket chipset coolers?  They're generally not too expensive, it's just a matter of whether they will fit.
I bought some not long ago for a project, now I just have them lying around.
Avoid the Zalman chipset coolers, they're impossible to install.

I will look into a third party cooler for my south bridge but I am limited because my video card covers much of the heat sink so I will have to get a shallow one. any suggestions? but it is a quarter till 5 in the morning for me so i am going to bed. night.

If you already have a cooler on the southbridge, a replacement of the same size is unlikely to do much.
My suggestion is to either mount a fan on the heatsink, or to get a cooler such as the Thermalright HR-05 SLI, which is offset (if you look at some pictures you'll see what I mean) to avoid conflicting with video cards etc.

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Bought 2 of these recently...rugged and functional...

I'm looking for something a little lower priced. I think this one might be good. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=993572&sku=V13-2204 I'm attaching picks of my  CPU, north, and south bridge heat sink. the picks are to big so I have to do multiple posts.

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My north bridge.

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And south bridge.

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