Hey everyone,

Got some rather shweet news yesterday I've been given a £1000 home computer budget from work ^^ I'm allowed to spend over that, but I have to cover the rest, which isn't too bad tbh ^^ So I've spent the last few hours drooling over what could be mine :P
Unfortunately it HAS to be just one rig.. otherwise I would go for a few small ones I would make myself :P

Anyways, I've been thinking of building it myself, and I sorta have an idea of what I want to go for:

Coolermaster Cosmos
Hiper Power 880W Low Noise/SLI Ready
Asus Striker II Extreme
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme
2x Corsair Twin3x 2GB DDR3 (2x1024MB) - 1333MHz
2x BFG nVidia GeForce 8800GT OC
Creative X-FI Xtreme Music 7.1 (If i don't get the Striker - It comes with it's own sound card )
Asus DVDÅ+-RW (DRW-2014L1T)
2x 22" Aoc Monitors
Vista Home Premium SP1 64-BIT
Creative Labs Inspire T7900 7.1 Speakers Sys

Now I've managed to get the cost down to around £1050 so I'll only be paying £50 for it ^^ (need to check up on the reliability of some of these websites first tho :P

So... just before I'd fully decided to buy these I started looking up compatibility issues for the Fan I was going to use ( IT IS HUGE - Was going to go for the IFX-14 :P )
And although it seems fine to use that fan.. I started hearing all these horror stories about the 790i nVidia chipsets and the quadcore CPUs. and of course Intel and SLI... GRRR :cursing:

Anyways I'm stuck as to what to go for and am considering switching to AMD and ATI-crossfire

I dunno... any advise/experience with those would be really appreciated

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