[midhuna]

Hey everyone,

After several weeks of planning and buying parts, the time has finally come to build! (It's been such a busy summer that this is only the third weekend I've been home since May, and thus the first I actually have time to do this.) Over the next two days I'll be putting together my i7 rig, which will consist of the following awe-inspiring parts:

The Base Hardware:

- CPU: Core i7 920 D0 (Batch # 3901A238,) bought from MicroCenter in Paterson, NJ for $200.
- Motherboard: EVGA X58 Classified (E761,) also bought from MicroCenter in Paterson, NJ after price-matching NewEgg.
- RAM: 12 Gigs OCZ Platinum 1600mhz CAS-7 DDR3 (2x 6GB Packs) bought from Amazon
- Video Card: ATI Raedon 4870 X2 (MSI Overclocked Edition) from current rig, bought a year ago and still fighting strong.
- Sound Card: PCI SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum with Front Bay (now going into its fifth! rig)
- PSU: Corsair 1000HX 1000 Watt PSU, from current rig
- Main HD: Seagate 1TB Drive (7200.11,) from current rig
- Photo Storage Array: 3x 500 TB WD SE-16 drives in non-boot RAID-5 array
- Optical Drives: LG Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Combo (DVD Writer,) LG Blu-Ray RE Writer (from current rig)
- Case: The fantastic Cooler Master Cosmos S (from current rig)
- Monitor: Dell 2407 WS, 1920x1200, bought in 2006 and still the best upgrade purchased in the last three years
- Speakers: Logitech Z-5500 5.1 THX, bought several years ago
- OS: Windows 7 x68 Ultimate RTM, downloaded hot off the presses from MSDN around 2PM EDT on 8/6/09