Phenom II 1055 - Crosshair 890fx- what else to get

Really, the new aquamarine ones look more mature, modern, modest, and sleek. Less flashy than the dazzling blue, which I'd like more. I like the red PI series too...even more flashy. When RAM only takes up a small portion of your case, it's nice to have it stand out.

I would pass on any psu's from tuniq, there are mass reports of them not honoring rebates. Their customer support is terrible. I own a 1200 tuniq and have also been skimped out of a 100usd rebate.

He's talking about a cpu fan/heatsink though, not a psu

The psu he's getting is from Corsair

The combo sale is not dependent on a rebate luckily, just instant savings from newegg.

Gigabyte has toned down the sockets and such in their boards. I have an older P45-UD3R that you need sunglasses to look at. The RAM sockets are bright red and yellow. It's impossible get memory to match or even look good with those colors. The new H55 board has gray and blue RAM sockets, much less raucous.

I've been considering putting my H55 rig into my Antec 900, and putting the P45 rig into a case without a Window because of it. It's sort of ironic, because of the Core i3-530 vs an E7300 C2D, the Matx 530 rig jumps all over the P45, but draws about half the power.

Well its official now, credit card charged through, and I put it in my techspot system info.

So we'll be expecting great tales of triumph and happiness from you? Say, perhaps by this weekend?

The god of computers willing (I call him CompuThor). 3 days ups shipping, I'm sure Ill be staring out the window for the next few days hoping.

Newegg will probably boot your stuff out the door tomorrow. Tentatively, that makes Thursday the worst case delivery scenario. I don't know how much you've ordered from them in the past, but they have 3 warehouses, (in the US, I think). CA, Tennessee, and Northern NJ. I always seem to get boards from Tennessee. I live in Philly, and the NY/ North Jersey to Phila shipping corridor is guaranteed overnight, with UPS ground. Needless to say I'm ecstatic when they have my parts in NJ. Not to worry though, Newegg is the best.

I've ordered parts before, never this many, this high end. I have had a few large orders of server parts, and everything worked through them. The invoice states that all of my parts will be shipping from NJ, and I live in Florida, so that's not too far a hike.

I'm sure I will be back on here by thursday or friday asking for help with overclocking or something of the sort.

The only way I could convince my cheap self to make this purchase, since I haven't bought a PC in over five years, was to sell some of the electronics I had to clear out clutter and absorb some of the cost.
Giant dell laserphoto printer sold to a client for $200, and a hp dv6000 that I'm going to kick out to ebay as soon as I replace it's motherboard (god i hate dv6000's, except I get a fair amount of work fixing them). An extra psp, and maybe my modded 360, since I don't ever use them any more.

All in all that means I'm looking at $450-600 when I finish clearing it out, so from that perspective my net cost for this PC is only 500-600. I can live with that, just for once to not be constantly bodging pc's together from abandoned parts every few months.

I'm quite proud of all my McGuivere'd creations, but if I'm going to keep working in this business I guess I should become more acquainted with the newer hardware, and operating systems.

Thank you again everyone for your patience and help, I'm sure you saved me a few blunders and likely a few hundred dollars.

All parts in, I scrounged a drive from my server. Took about 6 hours but everything put together, and windows 7 installed. Only real hiccup was that I did not realize that I didn't have any SATA optical drives, and as such am using a usb external dvd drive in the meantime until I buy or find one somewhere.
Runs great, I'll post pictures tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll take a whack at overclocking it, its running at a steady 34c for the cpu as it is, so I figure i have a bit of room to play with.

Oh yeah, should have mentioned that the board does not support any 'legacy' drives. like i said the board can take all the fun out of OC'ing if you want it to , but if you want any help getting the max OC out of the setup, just give me a holler. I have mine running @ 4.1Ghz, but got 4.172 stable.

When overclocked that just raises the top bus speed right? Does it still lowers the speed when in idle to save power, or does it stay maxed?

Can't say with certainty but I believe that you can leave Cool'N'Quiet enabled and the CPU should still throttle itself. It depends on the board though and I haven't had an ASUS in a while........but I do believe it should work. I know on my Gigabyte board if I set the multiplier or FSB to anything other than auto then it automatically disables CNQ I did find a weak sort of work around using AMD Overdrive. It's far from perfect but it works well enough for me since I only OC during gaming or other processor intense usage.

It should still throttle back, unless you turned it off.