grimx133

All in all, looks like very nice specs. That'll run anything, and run it well.

Excellent price on the video card, only thing is that the warranty is two years, instead of the lifetime on the AR cards. For that you'd have to go up to the 285, which is a tad pricier, or down to the 275.

Download the windows7 RC, it's good till sometime next year, then buy a copy at your leisure. The RC expires on June the 1st of next year, not sure if it has the two hour shutdown for a couple months before that. Looked at the email from ms, they don't mention the shutdown for the RC like they did for the beta.

The motherboard will come with sata cables and an ide cable. Unless you're like me and have a lot of drives, you won't need any extra for one each of the burner and hdd flavours. Looks like it comes with four sata cables by the picture at newegg.