Looks good. I just bought that same processor. I am in the process of getting the other parts. I do a lot of video transcoding and some other things that could benefit from a quad core processor, so I went with that instead of dual. Also, I think that we will see more software utilizing more cores soon. I think that looks like a good config for a good all around desktop. I don't think you NEED dual video cards, but the more the better...

Get you a stripe set of them thur Raptors!

You could buy a Mac !

RAID 10 (4 drives required) or RAID 0 (2 required)
then just backup your important data to your USB drives everytime you make a change.

your an idiot vista sucks ass i havent seen anyone in the tech industry besides people paid off by microsoft say anything good about vista.

problem with raid is most people use the crappy raid built into thier mobo's that sucks ass instead of getting a real raid contoller.

a good 4 port sata controller costs $300+

Vista is superior to XP in many many ways. There are documented advancements such as ReadyBoost and relatively unknown ones such as Vista's completely redesigned TCP/IP stack. Generally Vista is bashed as it got bad framerates on OpenGL games in early reviews...cos it doesn't support OpenGL.

Vista's newer TCP/IP algortihms are off by default, so do this at the command prompt:

netsh interface tcp set global congestionprovider=ctcp

If it doesn't increase your throughput by 20% over XP I will buy you a Pepsi.

Read up on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_TCP

You can enable CTCP with the netsh interface tcp set global congestionprovider=ctcp command.

You can disable CTCP with the netsh interface tcp set global congestionprovider=none command

Should have got a Mac.

ReadyBoost is mostly hype.

people that dont buy macs these days are retards

Mostly, but I heard its beautiful if you get the recommended USB sticks.

Wow, congrats on your upcoming machine...that is indeed a very good specs!