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Well after 5 years I decided to build a new gaming tower. I tried to make it last until after the first of the year, but alas it was not to be. I've ate up 5 video cards and am in the process of RMAing said 5th. On top of that my PC has selective start-up. Basically it will start up fine 60% of the time and about 40% of the time it fails to read the sata ports. I've bought everything except the SSD drive. I'm fed up so here is my new rig I'm in the process of getting. Upgrading from an HEC Blizard case w/ 650 HEC power supply - QX9650 Core2Extreme 3.0ghz quad core CPU w/ 16gb (4x4gb) on a Gigabyte board w/ same video card and storage drives. Upgrading to: Case: Smiladon Power Supply:KINGWIN ABT-1050MM 1050W Motherboard:Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H CPU: Core i5 3570K RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) OS Dive: HyperX 3K 240GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) with SandForce SF-2281 Controller Storage Hard Drive: Western Digital WD Green 1.5TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Video Card: VisionTek Radeon HD 6870 1GB Keeping my old Microsoft Wave Keyboard and my Dell mouse. Also my Dynex 32" 1080p TV will remain as my monitor. Also gonna stick with Windows 7 Ultimate for now as well. Windows 8 looks and feels like a tablet/cell phone OS to me. I just hated messing with it.