MY NEW BUILD

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K, few questions.

A. Why the MSI Eclipse and not the EVGA Classified board? MSI has crap reviews compared to classified.

B. Why buy heatspreaders for RAM that already has OEM heatspreaders?

C. Why 3 GTX 260's vs a couple of 285's or 3 275's (Only $10 more)

D. Also, why spend $1200 on RAM? Seriously, you don't see that much performance gain...

Just my

this build was nothing more than a shot a trying to build a machine that would run as fast,good,or better than a mac would.i already own a machine,a mac,that is way beyond what i feel almost anyone would ever need for a personal computer,but i had it made up in my mind to get that and i did.the msi has 10 sata ports whereas the evga has only nine.to expand upon that,you would be spending more with the board and cables than to just stick with the msi.secondly,i have had no problems,major,with msi boards.the reason i got heatspreaders for the ram was because if i am going to be running that amount of ram at the specs that i am wanting it to be running at,i will need more than just the stock heat spreaders they come with.i am going witht he 3 260s because if i wanted to do it my way,i would have crossfired 2 4870s and gotten better 3D marks than anything evga makes or you could get with any SLI configuration.i chose these cards because i can get better performance from three of these and for less than getting two of any of the others.if i really wanted to spend alot on a video card and get it all and better than the others,i would've gone ahead and gotten a pny workstation card and oveclocked that,but i don't want to spend $2500 on a video card alone.the reason i chose this ram was because i am building a machine that will be maxed out in every area possible and then try to push it to the edge in all areas.overclocking the ram,processor,video card,etc.

besides,what it all boils down to is that i do this for a hobby.i got my quarterly bonus and stock increase,have no real bills anymore,done all the traveling i care to do,accomplished a good bit of everything i wanted to do in life.i have a great job,a wonderful wife,beautiful baby girl,and a great dog in addition to it all.what else if there is nothing outside of here that i want or desire and i have a hobby,why would i not just want to do what i enjoy doing?that's all it is to me is a hobby.i build them and then some people at work will look or be interested in them and i will end up selling it or in some cases,giving it to them if their child/children really need one.i just like having fun,enjoying life,seeing people enjoy life,seeing people happy,making people happy,and being able to be that person in a person's life that help them meet that need that they couldn't meet on their own or give them the help they need to meet it.