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Highly recommend Puget, and they are located close to Seattle.

In response to your original question, I recommend Puget.

Great read Kyle. Agree with your points. Any chance your camera crew can drop by the AMD booth and get some pics + specs on the new thin bezel displays from Samsung?

Over the years, I have bought from Dell, Alienware, GamePC, Falcon NW, AVA Direct, and most recently Puget. Of those, I would buy from Puget or Falcon NW again. I also considered Maingear, but their build times are around 4 weeks. Stay away from Alienware.

Did the update last night without issues. It did load a driver after re-booting into Win 7 RC. Re-boot was successful and I went into the SSD toolbox and no errors detected. Subsequently installed Win 7 RTM without issues. Seems I am lucky...

Does anyone have any experience using HDD Erase on the 2nd generation Intel SSDs? Any problems? What version - 3.3 or 4.0?

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The RC has TRIM enabled. The Gen2 x-25m's firmware doesn't support TRIM at present.

Once the firmware issue is corrected, the intel g2 drives will be available for purchase.

I have been perusing Maingear's and Puget's websites as I will likely be getting a new rig in the fall. They both seem to be excellent companies, and neither is a bad choice. Factors which have me leaning to Puget: 1) quicker build time, 2) and pacific time zone puts them 2 hours behind me so...

My comments are based on using PCs and every version of Windows since 3.0. I am glad to see MS pushing back against the whipping they have been taking from Apple. However, MS deserves it. Vista is not a high quality product. XP is by far their best OS, but it is aging and suffers from...

If you are gonna drop 6-7k on a system, I would seriously look at Falcon Northwest.

I looked very closely at Maingear and AVA Direct for my last purchase. I chose AVA Direct. Simply cannot beat their value per dollar spent. For the price I was going to pay with Maingear, I got the exact same configuration from AVA + a Dell 2407-HC display. I think cosmetically Maingear has...

Forthcoming software (including games) will be made to support multiple CPU cores not just two. Hence, if you are buying one CPU to last the next 2-3 years, then get a quad. If you swap out CPUs and motherboards each year, then get a dual core.