Finally Cave'd on I7

woooo!

Nice build man!

is my voltage too high?

the voltage looks to be a little to high i dont like to have mine go pass 1.400v , but im not sure what the safe volts were someone else might know, and you 06 score is pretty low for your setup because with my GTX 295 and my 920 @ 4.2Ghz i get around 30k

I would set up the TRUE to blow out the back, it seems like it would exhaust the hot air better that way...

3dmark06 looks low compared to vantage because you have physx enabled on vantage which is probably inflating your score a good 2-3k points.

I'm unimpressed it's an alright system. Also don't agitate people with you're title remarks it's unnecessary and immature and it's also of a fanboy nature. I don't understand how someone can come into this thread after reading that title and then leaving with a positive impression. Build logs should be neutral and slanted as is evident.

Congratulations on the setup firstly, it is very nice.

But I am also slightly unimpressed by this setups scores, I expected it to score a lot higher than what its doing in the benchmarks shown...especially at 4.3GHz and with both GPU's overclocked in SLI.

I wanted a similar setup like this, and figured it would score in the 30-35k range for 3dmark06, and atleast 30-35k in Vantage with no Physx as its pretty much all top end hardware.

2x GTX295's with a Core i7 @ 4.3GHz scores 40k in vantage with no Physx. Is the GTX 295 really that much of a step-up over the gtx285? 13-14k+ points? (I'm counting an additional -2k or so since he ran with Physx on)

I'm lost? who is exactly the red team when speaking of i7's? Thought it was either blue or green? Unless he speaketh of ATI?

However, nice system although one critique. I would face your true so that the fan is aiming back out of the case into your rear fan.

Thanks for the advice, ncspec so you are saying the true should be turned? which angle

Nice build man. I hope for the day when I get enough money to go i7 also.

turn it 90 degrees. those bench numbers are insanely low and i would probably remove the pictures till i addressed the issue

i know 3DM06 was low but is vantage also low?

You went with the LG Blu-ray burner? I would have recommended the Pioneer BDR-203 instead, as it is actually made in Japan. All the other burners are made in China or somewhere similar. Japanese mass manufacturing quality far outclasses that of any other country, even the United States.

EDIT:
Your 3DMark scores are low. That's because you are using Vista. Switch to XP x64 and you will see a very decent boost. For example, the system in my signature with the i7 at 4GHz and a single GTX280 (overclocked) scores about what your system does in 06.