Gentlemen,
                 Ok...after a year of talking about it and speculating, I've finally started assembling the new PC last night.  The only thing that I'm waiting on now is the new OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SATA III drives which should arrive on Thursday..  I am taking pictures as I assemble it and will share those...  I know it's not THE best system but should last me with some upgrades down the road.. ;)  I'll probably buy CoD later this week... Lookout weekend, here I come..

Here's what the system will consist of..

Coolermaster Sniper Case Back Edition (3 - 200mm fans)
Asus P6X58D Premium Mobo  SATA III 6gb and USB 3.0
Intel i7 920 clocked up to around 4ghz
Prolimatech Megahalems revB cpu cooler
2 Akasa Apache 120mm Fans in push/pull configuration on the Megahalems and one more Apache in the case behind the cooler.
Akasa Apache fans have a fluid dynamic bearing, run at lower rpms for low noise but have high CFM and high static pressure. ;)
LG Super Multi Blu  BluRay Rewriter (Writes CD, DVD, and BluRays)
12GB Ripjaws DDR3-1600
eVGA Nvidia GTX570 Superclocked
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series with the drivebay breakout box.
Thermaltake TR2RX 850watt  power supply
2 OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SATA III 6gb SSDs (Will be here Thursday  afternoon...the only thing I don't have yet)
Logitech G110 Gaming Keyboard+

Whoa - Rah - some horsepower there!

Nice........... :)

Congratulations - put the pics up soon!

S!

Gunny

Did you buy the part yet ?

:)

SMOKING,  What mobo did you go with?

What part Gozr?  The drives should be here on Thursday according to UPS.. :)


Oops...updated.  I went with the Asus P6X58D Premium.  Last year when I bought it, it was the latest and greatest.  Bought the Mobo, Proc and cooler a year ago.  Was just able to buy the rest.. :)  So..  Proc and mobo may be a bit dated by today's standards..  I'm hoping it screams anyway!! ;)

Hold on you dont have the processor yet ?  hooolld!

http://www.txsquadron.com/forum/index.php?topic=3562.msg19906#msg19906 (http://www.txsquadron.com/forum/index.php?topic=3562.msg19906#msg19906)

Asus P6X58D Premium is way too expensive for a 1366 socket  Arghhh! Pleaseeee read the link asap

GOZR:  I bought the mobo and proc a year ago...  I'm certainly not going to dump everything I have now and start over.  Everything I have is everything you say not to get..  Sorry GOZ..  :(

No nooooo it's gooood no worries if you bought it a year ago :)  as you can see and read on my post the i7 920 is a great cpu for COD !!!! for sure no doubt about this..  I'm just worry about this damn Vram COD's eater on 1 GB and lesser Vga cards ( i'm on the same boat now) .. if you are not going with 1920x1200 and more you'll be ok.

I am going with 1920X1200 and my card has 1.25GB of vram.  Dunno if that's bad or not..

On a good note, my SATA III SSD drives are arriving a day early (today!).  Woohoo! :)

SATA III SSD drives Awesome!!!

at 1920x1200 with 1.25GB of vram it's going to requier some "tweaking" IMO if you keep it, like i was saying to Gunny at less than 2GB it will be hard to have some room for the extra skins, actions , Online stuffs and land eyes high candy.. The 920 is perfect but the Video ram come a bit short..

Alas with those damned LCD when we reduce resolution the quality is horrible unless it is windowed.

But dude, the P6X58D has 6Gig SATA interface with USB 3.0.   Should be able to strip those drives of every bit of data in the blink of an eye.  

By the way it's the same Mobo I have had this last year with no troubles.  

The only thing I would bring up is that I have heard (not experienced because I only have 6g) that overclocking with 12g of ram is tougher than 6.  Heard that the more ram the tougher it is to get that last mghz out of your system  While these are only test setups for bragging rights.   Just thought I would mention it if you try to compare your overclock system to another with less memory.  

Yes always hard on the bridge not much of quantity or ram but more of a quantity of slot taken.. 2x 4GB is better than 4x 2GB and so on..  but you should be able to aim for 3.8 or 4.0 GHZ on that CPU and parts you have.

Everything is good but i'm just concern with the Vram of the card only, The 570 is a good card and fast but the dark spot of this is "just" the lack of Video ram @ 1920x1200

Ahhh...ok wow.  I'm pretty sure I read forums with multiple people that had 12GB that clocked up to 4ghz without issues. (I'm hoping I remember correctly at least) 4Ghz is all I'm trying to achieve.

Will know soon enough...the drives just arrived here at my desk!!  :o

Yeah, I think Gozr is right.  Something about using more slots equals more voltage pulled from the bridge.  But like I said I have never done or know of anybody that had, just read some stuff way back.  It maybe just a minor difference if anything but I didn't want you to think you got a bad cpu or something when comparing to 6g rigs. 

Best of luck.     

I appreciate the heads up Chukar!  Will keep you guys abreast of my progress.

More slots?  I read that using three slots was the way to get the most performance while over clocking.  Still using only three slots, just 4GB per slot instead of 2GB.

On an up note:  :o
These arrived today! ;)  They're mounted in the removable trays in the Sniper case now.  Still much work to be done...wiring etc.
(http://www.txsquadron.com/images/vertex3s.jpg)

As far as that memory goes your fine, and have an optimal config.  Back in the old days the 4 gig sticks were not easy to get so they filled up both banks A/B with 2 gigers ( 6 Slots ).   Using the 6 slots is were the load problems occurred so you shouldn't have to worry.   

Yes agreed, also you wouldn't want to go beyond 4 GHZ on a 920 24/7 with summer coming up even at 3.8 you'll be very happy.. TB as one as a 920 around 3.8 you should ask him if you want to compare settings in case.