Awesome! Thanks for the info. And you are correct I would much rather ask the questions now and get a better product than figure out I wasted my time and money down the road. I hadn't considered the exhaust on the cards and that makes almost to much sense. The EE sounds like it will be the way to go. Looks like I could get the 7970 for around $570 which may be my first step in a whole new system. I always forget how easy it is to go down the rabit hole and want to upgrade everything. I think with the hard drive and ram upgrade I'm headed in the right direction. I may wait on the video card until I can start from scrath, I never really had a reason to make a my system better until I started boxing. But I'll take any excuse I can to a better PC. Thanks again for your help!