Something about the hardware

As most of you might have noticed there has been some interesting twists in the GFX-card business. So now it seems that I'm going to drop those GeForce monsters and get them nice ATI HD4870's instead. Actually I'm thinking of getting two 4870X2's. If only I could get my hands on those OC'd watercooled behemeoths. Sadly them bastards are available only as OEM for selected manufacturers. I wish I could be a selected manufacturer. Here's some links for your enjoyment.

[H]Enthusiast
TGDaily

Then the CPU business. It's just my luck that the Nehalem is coming out pretty soon. Everything was sweet and constructed when I was thinking of the hardware configuration but now the new options have messed up my pretty plans. I was pondering whether to wait for Nehalem or not. After reading some previews I decided not to go the Nehalem way. Here are some links upon where I based my desicion.

Andandtech
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Hexus

So where am I going to hardware-wise? Seems like I have to give up my "No compromise" -mentality once again. That means I'm getting good price/performance CPU, top of the line MoBo, DDR3 memory (their prices have dropped nicely in the last months and I just might be able to use them in the next setup (hoping to upgrade only CPU nd MoBo then). I'm also backing off from the "99%DIY watercooling" -principal for this machine. I'm still trying to make some waterblocks for my older rigs to get the experience, but that's not part of this project anymore.

Then something else

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