Thanks for the responses. Regarding the video cards, I'd rather stick with ATI since I can upgrade one card at a time whereas nVidia would require me to upgrade two cards at once. I think the highest end ATI card with stock passive cooling is the X1650 series, but that doesn't quite have the perform...

Chris Chan wrote:sony camera? They have ccd probs, were recalled.

Not just Sony cameras. Recall was for all cameras using specific Sony CCDs, which means pretty much every brand except Kodak and Fuji was affected.

Also, most manufacturers are repairing this past warranty (they just make Sony pay for it).

I randomly came across this in another forum. Poster claims it helped reduce loaded temps by 3-6 degrees.

Looks a ton more secure than the plastic pegs (though I'd probably want a backplate added for stability)

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/sho ... p?t=117054

First of all, I'll give you fine folks a but of background to lay the foundation for disucssion. I'm building a system with two goals in mind: 1. Photoshop 2. Gaming Needless to say, I want to maximize both CPU (PS) and GPU (games) performance. That means some OCing of the CPU/FSB and a very high ch...