Quote Originally Posted by Coltimar View Post
No offense, but I would NOT rely on an onboard NIC. That gaming NIC is overkill. You don't get much of a boost for a ton of money, as alcattle said. You can get a nice DLINK gigabit card for $30.
The onboard controller is a Gigabit controller. Kind of redundant to buy yet another NIC either way, unless the extra performance is a MUST HAVE.

Quote Originally Posted by jstanthr View Post
with such an awesome cpu and 12gb of ram, why such a lowly video card? IMO with a system like that, it should get nothing less than a GTX 260 or 280. then u could 5box like nothing
The 9600 series works just fine. YOU DON'T NEED A 280/285/295/275/20 FOR WOW! DON'T INSIST ON IT! A 9600GT lasted me for well over a year before I changed it out for an entirely different purpose.

Hmm. You're right i think im going with that video card considering im leveling 5 teams to sixty
then over the next three months im saving for 2 or three of the 295s so i can have five monitors
Have you seen the paper launch for ATI's new graphics card? I'd rather save up for the highest end if I wanted multiple monitors. (If I had to have a one-card solution, either way it seems easier than putting three graphics cards into one computer. It'd also be more power efficient) Event then you could go with two of the lower end cards and still get six monitors.