The case is pretty much finished now. I have tested it for a couple of days without any signs of leaking. So it was time to buy the hardware.
12GB of memory (2 sets of 3x2GB each). Efficiently packages in eleven tons of plastic.
And came with a memory cooler each. But I didn't know that so I bought an extra as well. I have to see how much noise these make. I will probably slow them down or maybe replace the fans.
The ASUS Rampage II Extreme came in a really nice package.
Water blocks for the graphics card, CPU and north bridge. The north bridge block is made specifically for the ASUS boards. The plan is to put the CPU and NB blocks on one loop and the GPU on the other.
In the middle, not clearly visible, is an Intel i7 950 processor. Here shown without the huge stock cooler that they force upon you. The other two things are an Intel X25-M G2 SSD disk (160GB) and a Western Digital disk (1TB).
I have ordered an ASUS nVidia GeForce GTX295, but it won't arrive until after christmas. They seem to have trouble keeping up with demand.
More to come...
