Help Building a new Box.

Joe K

Hi Everyone,

I'm spec'ing out a new box, currently I've got the following quoted at Microcenter:
i'm looking at:
intel Ci7 950 - $230
Asus Sabertooth x58 1366 ATX - $200
6GB RAM DDR3 Kit - $120
OCZTech 600W MODXSTREAM PRO APFC (modular power supply) - $75
EVGA Nvidia GTX460 - $190
4x1TB Seagate Drives for RAID5 - $70ea, $280
Coolmaster HAF922M Mini ATX case - $125
Using one of my many optical drives laying around

Total: $1220 for HW.

good/bad/can i do it differently? I'm looking to pimp the box pretty hard, and make it expandable a bit.

Any suggestions?

MushroomStick

Well, if you're looking to pimp, you're going to need to throw a solid state drive into the mix, at least for your OS. Also, I've had pretty bad luck with seagate drives recently (the interwebs would suggest that so have a whole lot of other people too) so maybe consider getting the 2TB western digital greens for storage (looks like just about everywhere has them for $100 and right now there's a $20 mail in rebate that I think you can use up to 5 times.)