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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?

Puget www.pugetsystems.com

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.

Sounds like a great opportunity for the [H] to get a pre-release build of Crysis and run some e6850 vs q6600 benchmarks for us!!

I have an Alienware PC which will be 6 years old in November. It has run well and never had a problem. It is one of their old tower cases before they switched to the "alien head" shaped cases. This machine was bought during Alienware's rise in popularity when there were few other boutiques...

I am also considering a SFF box (sg01e or lanbox lite) with a q6600 (post 7/22) + GTS. Is a quad core too hot for a SFF box?

SG01 can accommodate the 8800 series cards as well.

Or Falcon Northwest.

Will we see the desktop version of these quad cores available for our purchase in the 3rd quarter? 4th quarter?

Did they overclock your CPU?

Get the e6600 CPU and overclock it instead of the x6800. 4GB of RAM is overkill for present gaming. If you do want 4gb, I agree about getting the 64-bit version of vista.

Will that motherboard accept an AMD native quad-core CPU (phenom, etc) when they are available?

This video card is a shining example of why we need some competition from ATI/AMD in this market space. $829 for ONE video card...ridiculous. Pricing like this is foreshadowing of what would happen if AMD/ATI went under and Nvidia was the only GPU manufacturer.

Congratulations on your merger. Both companies can benefit from being under the same roof. Overdrive should benefit by 1. Leveraging VM's purchasing power to make their products more affordable 2. Taking advantage of VM's production capacity and efficiency to improve the timeliness of system...

I don't think you will see much benefit from switching 2GB of DDR2-667 for 2GB of DDR2-800 unless you plan to overclock your memory. A better option would be 4GB of DDR2-667 if your operating system is capable of using all the memory. It has been said here before, but 2GB of RAM is all you...

1. Get a new video card...8800 GTS (640mb). 2. Overclock the e6600

These were the best reviews available to the consumer. I am sorry to see them disappear.

I am also interested in a SFF system from AVA. I prefer the appearance of the sg01 over the Tt lanbox. I wish they offered the sgo1 with the windowed side panels.

AMD needs to get those chips to the market. Any idea when we can expect them?

AVA Direct or Velocity Micro or Maingear. Get your LCD from Dell.

I am fairly certain VM's CEO stated on these forums that they will overclock their systems at the buyer's request. I haven't seen any posts by a VM customer since his post with any results. The exception being those who have purchased the $7k+ machine with liquid cooling, etc. As for your...

I also am curious to know why this power supply hasn't been SLI certified with the 8800 series. Maybe a Corsair rep could shed some light on this?

So Apple's OS is better than Microsoft's best efforts. Why should it matter? In order to use OS X, I have to buy a Mac. This means I only get to use software, hardware, and peripherals with my new computer approved by Steve Jobs. My bank account is also noticeably lighter than if I would...

If you can afford it, Falcon NW Mach 5.

Why did you choose the ASUS 680i board over an eVGA? I am curious. I am not being critical.

If money is truly not a consideration for you, I recommend Falcon NW. Stay away from Alienware (=Dell).

Recommend you check out www.powernotebooks.com I have an ASUS model from them and have been pleased. I would buy from them again without hesistation. Powernotebooks is a USA company and all notebooks are assembled in the US. Tech support is also US-based. Their lifetime rating on...

Although I don't have any data on the case/component temperatures, I assume it is adequate as VM is a reputable integrator. My question is more out of personal curiosity as most cases have fan(s) to suck air into the front, and rear fan(s) to exhaust hot air. In this case, the rear fan is...