Trying to choose a processor...

[DMB2000uk]

well i hate to add more confusion for you, but i have to put this out there: you may have heard of CUDA from nvidia, which allows programs to use the incredible performance of the gpu to do many tasks many times faster than the cpu, since you do a lot of video trans/encoding, i should let you know about a program called badaboom, its still in beta but its looking very promising! i believe its quite a bit faster than quads at video transcoding. despite that though, i would still go with the quad. im just giving you all the information you should consider before making a decision

I think that Darkfiber has opted to go with the 9800GT along with the quad, so they should be all set to go if they want to use the CUDA applications. ^_^

Dan

[Darkfiber]

I actually ended up getting a different PC from someone I know who custom built it, still has the Q660 but it has dual 8800gtx's rather than a single 9800gt (the motherboard for that other computer didn't have an SLI config) and ended up getting the whole package and a nice new monitor for a little cheaper. Nice liquid cooling system put in there as well. Thanks again for the help, this thing runs circles around my old PC

[DMB2000uk]

Now that sounds like a really nice setup.

What does the watercooling setup consist of?

You ok with the maintenance of the watercooling system? It's not quite as set it and forget it as air is.

Dan